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Sacred Text Messages S01 E06 - God's Prescription for Anxiety

Hamza Yusuf

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What Is Halah in Arabic?

In Arabic Halah is stinginess or miserliness but halah is anxiety. So the people of prayer are people that don't panic. In other words they're always reasonable. Their intellect is with them and they have akhad. And so when you lose it, when you panic you go into fight or flight or freeze. That's why what follows in the verse is an explanation of what halua is.That the human being is created in this state, in Nalinsana, verily.

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