Tasawwuf and Black Muslim Men's Mental Health

06/08/2025

05/08/2025

Join us for a transformative weekend of learning as we explore The Hadith of Jibreel, a single yet comprehensive narration.

🖋Register at HadithJibreel.Eventbrite.com

📖 A Weekend Seminar | September 5–7, 2025
Masjid Muhammad of Atlantic City
300 N. Albany Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401

🕌 Instructors:
• Imam Amin Muhammad
• Shaykh Abdul Aziz Al Khattab

📅 Schedule:
• Friday, Sept. 5 – 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Saturday, Sept. 6 – 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Sunday, Sept. 7 – 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
☕ Fajr & Breakfast Program Saturday and Sunday

💵 Registration: $100
Includes course materials & meals

03/08/2025

An insightful , intelligent perspective on what Addiction is from
“…Addiction is not simply a compulsion or a moral failing. It is a maligned form of attachment. When early caregivers are absent, frightening, or unpredictable, the child turns to internal strategies.

Psychoanalyst John Bowlby argued that the need for attachment is as essential as food or oxygen. When that need goes unmet, the developing mind seeks alternatives. Addiction becomes an emotional prosthesis, not to feel good, but to feel less alone and more regulated.

Substances, food, gambling, po*******hy, none of these are random. They are surrogate caregivers. They soothe, regulate, and respond on demand. The addict bonds to the substance in the same way a child bonds to a caregiver who both comforts and frightens.

Addiction mimics disorganised attachment. There is desperate seeking followed by collapse. Temporary relief is chased by shame. The cycle echoes early trauma. It is a repetition of the old pattern in a new, chemical or behavioural form.

Bowlby noted that children deprived of secure attachment exhibit protest, despair, and eventual detachment. The addicted individual repeats these stages over and over. They are not chasing pleasure. They are surviving abandonment.

Many people with addictions have learned that intimacy is dangerous as real people cannot be controlled. Relationships bring the risk of rejection or engulfment. The addictive substance or behaviour becomes preferable because it offers comfort without emotional danger.

Recovery is not about stopping the behaviour. It is about learning to form new kinds of bonds. The therapeutic relationship offers a reparative experience and is unique. Over time a consistent, attuned other begins to take the place of the addictive object.

Without an attachment lens, we risk seeing addiction as pathology rather than adaptation. Bowlby reminds us that a child clings not from weakness, but from fear of losing connection. Addiction is what clinging looks like when the caregiver was inconsistent. “*

*Source: 6:31 - 6:32 PM 21/07/25

01/08/2025

Jumu’ah Mubarak

31/07/2025

This is a prayer upon the Prophet ﷺ  composed by Habib Ali al-Jifri (may Allah protect him and benefit us by him)

This is a prayer upon the Prophet ﷺ  composed by Habib Ali al-Jifri (may Allah protect him and benefit us by him)

O Allah, bestow prayers and peace upon our Master Muhammad, the Paradise of Paradise, the one who brings comfort to men and is a protection from the Jinn and upon his Family and Companions.

Habib Ali al-Jifri (may Allah protect him and benefit us by him) teaches us:

📿 Being with the Prophet ﷺ is the greatest part of Paradise

📿 The concern of the Prophet’s close Companions was not Jannah itself as much as being in the company of the Prophet in Jannah.

📿 When a great man was once asked to describe the pleasures of Paradise, he simply said: “The Messenger of Allah is there.”

📿 The Prophet’s physical presence brought comfort to those around him, and his spiritual presence and teachings continue to bring peace and comfort to his followers and humankind as a whole.

May Allah take all of us by the hand and keep us firm on His religion.

“Paradise within Paradise”