 Alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahir rahmanir raheem. Wa sallallahu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahir rahmanir raheem. Wa sallallahu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Ramadan is like holding up a mirror and seeing your true raw self. It's the month where we get to know ourselves for who we really are. Think about it like this with me. If the shailty in our locked up, then whenever good or bad we do this month is actually a reflection of our own selves. The bad is obvious. If we're still engaged in bad and Ramadan struggle that we need to work on all year long to really eradicate that haram from our system. But I also said good. Why? Because sometimes even in the good that we do, sometimes our intention aren't purely for the sake of Allah alone. Like thinking, I wonder if people will think I'm a good person because I'm doing this good deed. But that's the whisperings of shaytan to throw you off course. But Ramadan in Ramadan, the shailty are here so we can't blame them. If the whisperings are still there, then it may just be our lower base self, the nefs talking. And in this series, we've been defying Ramadan in many different ways. So let's review together. We've called Ramadan the month of patience, the month of little food and little drink, the month of the Quran, the month of charity. But we also need to add a very important description as well that this is the month where we get to know our true selves without any shailty present. It shows us our true selves, our strengths, but also our weaknesses. What we overdo and where we underperform and where we need some extra help. And Ramadan comes back once a year, every year to put us back in check, like a training camp to bring us back to our true selves to show us how to take care of our mind, body and soul. Cause think about it. Fasting helps us regulate our physical appetites. It stretches our endurance to new height. It teaches us that we can do without a whole lot of things that we convinced ourselves we absolutely need. And if we do Ramadan right, our mind is also stretched to new limits, especially if we're engaging in meditative contemplation, tafakkur, or pondering on the meanings of the Quran or the meaning of life, tadaqur. And all of these are central practices within the arktika of the spiritual seclusion for Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam so ardently held on to at Ramadan and outside of it. In Ramadan, the soul can be bathed and cleansed and purified like we discussed previously and a real deep connection with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la can form with no shouting interfering. And there's no way that that relationship or connection with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will remain the same or stagnant if we really strive to connect with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Now look, a concept of mind, body and soul was so perfected by early Muslims. Can I share with you a project I've been working on that proves how Muslims were so ingenious at perfecting the mind, body, soul connection from the very beginning of Islam. And you know how I know? The very institutions that they built that reflected this very holistic mind, body, soul connection that no people in history before them had ever created anything similar. And for the last nights of the series, you've been looking at this background and this logo behind me that says, Madistan. The picture, in case you're wondering is actually of a Madistan in Syria. Madistan is a shortened name for B. Madistan. Madistan in Farsi or even Urdu translates into the place of healing for the ill person. Very similar to the phrase in Arabic, Darushifat or the place of healing. The Madistans were these holistic healing treatment centers, hospitals where someone who was not feeling well in any of the domains, mind, body or soul can go to to get help and reprieve. I took a personal interest in Madistan's because as a physician myself, in my opinion, the Madistan's were the pinnacle of our Islamic heritage. It's what I call the proof in the pudding. And you all know how much I care deeply about mental health. Well, did you know that in Islamic civilization, they were the very, we were the very first in history of all of mankind to incorporate mental health treatment into our hospitals. And the very first of these hospitals showed up right after the advent of Islam in the next generation after the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So we shouldn't be so surprised when we learn that Muslims are the first in history to have psychiatric institutions of healing and treatments in their hospitals. Why? Because of that mind, body, soul connection. Because that's holistic healing as taught by Islam. That is why I chose to name my new organization, Madistan, to revive that amazing and beautiful heritage of Islam that was all encompassing. You'll find Madistan's all over the Muslim world, along with advances they had in medicine and physical health, the Madistan were also home to astounding advancements in psychological health, like talk therapy. Yes, I just said talk therapy. Muslims were some of the first, if not be first to create talk therapy, music and sound therapy, aroma therapy, somatic therapies, medications, the list goes on. All of this to help treat those with mental health conditions. It's a lost legacy that we need to revive, especially the fact that these healing institutions were accessible to all who needed help. And this was made possible by the endowment system, the al-qaf, the waqf that people would have for their families, and pledged to support this kind of treatment and work. So basically generous donors wanted their Sadaqa Jaria, or their ongoing charity to be in the domain of healing. And I really hope some who are listening will be willing to put some of their charitable funds into these endowment systems for mental health in our communities here. And what further amazes me that the early Muslims didn't have stigma against mental health. You know how I know? Because they dedicated Saqqat funds to cover the cost of treatment for those in need. And you don't do that if something is stigmatized. I hope, Insha'Allah, that you will choose to help us revive this tradition by helping us establish endowments for mental health through Palestine. Whether it be by donating some of your Saqqat funds to cover the cost of sessions for fellow community members so that they can tap into holistic mental health care. Or whether it's supporting our mission and research backed by my lab at Stanford University, the Muslim mental health and Islamic psychology lab. Or by supporting the education and trainings that we've been hard at work to train community leaders, student leaders, and especially our religious leaders and imams on evidence-based best practices that fully integrate the latest mental health guidelines but are firmly grounded in Islamic understanding and principles. My goal is to bring back authentic tradition that we have trust and confidence in. We at Madison aim to recompense mental health treatment to its true beginnings like our noble Muslim predecessors. So please do consider supporting us at madistan.org. Let us revive our beautiful Islamic heritage together once more. Let us bring to ourselves in our community's holistic healing practices. Let us reorient ourselves back to that holistic mind-body-cell connection. And let's use Ramadan to dive deeper into all three arenas of our life. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from me and you this month. May we be showered by His mercy, His grace, His forgiveness and brought closer to Him this month. May our fasting and our prayers and our Qura'an reading and our dua and our charity all be accepted this month. And may we exit this month of Ramadan completely purified and cleansed like the day our mothers bore us. Allahumma ameen. Wassallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alayhi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi This is your sister Dr. Rani Awad signing off. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa sahbihi