{"id":608,"date":"2018-06-25T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uaalim.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2018-07-09T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:05:57","slug":"emotions-light-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uaalim.com\/emotions-light-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotions in the Light of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few weeks have been a roller coaster of emotions for me. I’m sad, I’m angry, I’m happy, I’m anxious. At the end of the day, I’m physically and mentally exhausted from the whirling dervish that seems to have taken over my head.
\nAs per my experience, they have almost always cost me heavily. This led me to a thought? Why do we have emotions? Being a Muslim is there any connection between emotions and Islam?<\/p>\n

The experience of emotions is inevitable. Thus we do not exercise our free will in choosing not to have them. Instead, we practice free will in deciding what to do with them when they arise. In an attempt to rationalize life, we have dismissed the importance of emotion. They not only affect our lives but affect others also as you communicate with others. Like if you are tensed or angry, and respond to someone harshly, definitely your relation is going to be affected.<\/p>\n

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me
\nSticks and stones break only skin, while words are ghosts that haunt me
\nPain from words has left its scars, on mind and hearts that are tender
\nCuts and bruises now have healed, it’s words that I remember!!<\/p>\n

First of all, it\u2019s important to realize that if ALLAH has created us with emotions, such as anger, sadness, fear, love, etc. Too many people look at feelings as some human weakness we’re meant to suppress. Even Islam orders us to contain emotions like sexual arousals and anger. Opinions are a creation of ALLAH, deliberately put in us for a reason. Sentiment should be directed and managed–not suppressed and ignored. Although complete obedience and submission are saved for the Creator, Islam highly respects and considers human emotion. For example, when a man came to the Prophet (PBUH) and said he\u00a0was going to marry a woman from the Ansar he had not seen, the Prophet (PBUH) told him to go look at her. When the wife of Ibn Thabit asked for a divorce because of what she felt (despite no ill treatment from her husband), the Prophet PBUH respected her feelings and granted her the divorce. In the Quran, Allah says He returned Musa (AS) to his mother so her eyes would be cooled and she would not grieve. Her *feelings* were that important to Allah. It means Islam values your emotions and Islam teaches you to direct or control these emotions.
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Now coming towards the control of emotions. The emotional component consists of two processes:<\/p>\n