Healing the Emptiness: When You Feel Down & Depressed, Read Surah Ad-Duha | Dr. Ali Ataie

Dr. Ali Ataie delivers a Khutbah giving spiritual and practical insights about the soothing Surah of Consolation. He encourages us to battle depression through the psychology imparted in Surah Al-Duha.

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Surah Ad-Duha (Qur'anic Chapter 93) was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at a time when he had not received any revelation for six months, not even in the form of a dream. The Prophet (saw) was in a disturbed state of mind. He felt depressed and believed that Allah was displeased with him, God had forgotten him, and God did not want him as a Prophet anymore.

This sermon was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Friday, November 29, 2019.

Ustadh Ali Ataie is one of the foremost leading scholars in comparative religions today. He is currently a teacher and researcher of the Islamic Sciences and specializes in theology and biblical interpretation. Additionally he is also the President and Founder of Muslim Interfaith Council and he has been heavily involved in interfaith activities for the past 15 years.

He earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Cal Poly State University in 2000, during which time he served as the President of the Muslim Students’ Association. He has been both a guest lecturer and guest instructor at several colleges and universities such as Cal Poly State , UC Davis , UC Berkeley, and Cal State East Bay.

He studied various Islamic sciences under local Bay Area scholars and has dialogued and debated with several Christian scholars on a variety of topics ranging from the historicity of the resurrection of Christ (upon whom be peace) and the Prophethood of Muhammad (upon whom be peace and blessings).

He is a graduate of the Badr Arabic Language Institute in Hadramawt, Yemen and studied at the prestigious Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most eminent scholars in the world. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Biblical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, (the first Muslim seminarian in the 143 year history of the school to do so), and is working on a PhD in Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics.

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