israel carries out another terror attack in the syrian capital damascus, assassinating number of people, including four iranian military advisors. the tank targeted a three-story residential building in the city's mesa neighborhood, which is home to several diplomatic missions. 106 days into the israely war in the gaza strip, the regime continues with his carpet bombing campaign across the... palestinian territory. gaza

health ministry says 165 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours. the overall death toll from the regime's war has risen to nearly 25,00. new un figures indicate the women are among the main victims of the israeli regime's carnage in gaza. according of to un women, out of nearly 25,00 people killed in the bessieg territory since october the 7th, some 70% make up women and children, says two mothers were killed are killed every hour by israel. forces have carried out fresh raids on two refugee camps in the occupied west bank, abducting several palestinians. one of the camps is near alfuts and the other is located in northern west bank. israel has intensified its raids and arrests across much of the occupied territory since october the 7th. this b of resistance movement says it has conducted new vitalatory strikes in israeli positions south of the lebanese border. the group says it fired a barash missiles at upper galli. israely media say of that it's was also launched from lebanon and

reached hyfar bay. peace be upon you and welcome to ion islam, the show where we look at current affairs through an islamic lens. each week we evaluate a current news story and we break it down from an islamic perspective. the events of the past three months have been deeply traumatic for many people across the world, but none more so than for the people of palestine. their lives have been turned upside down. they've seen their families

massacred, held the pieces of their dead children in their arms, have had their homes destroyed, all while they tried to survive israel's genocidal war, not knowing whether they'll be murdered as they sleep by the israeli occupation force, where their next meal will come from, or even if their relatives are missing, or if they're alive or dead, and yet the world has been witnessed to of the unrivaled strength and faith that the palestinian people have displayed, leading into the quran for suckor. on this week's show we explore how allah instructs us as muslims to turn to him and the quran in order to seek comfort in times of trauma and deep distress. the zionist regime has shown itself of to be vicious, inhumane entity hell bent on mass murdering its gentile enemies and causing as much pain and distress to the innocent people of palestine as possible. the consequences for gaza in particular are of especially. really brutal, as entire extended

families are murdered, and children are left orphand, while also having to try to survive the ongoing war, disease, and starvation, as a result of the conditions deliberately brought about by the idf terrorist group, but as muslims, we always turn to the holy quran for guidance and strength in dealing with traumatic and stressful situations in our lives. gives to the muslims in surah duha, when he says to the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, your lord has not forsaken you, nor has he detested you, and the hereafter is better for you than the first life. the prophet was feeling particularly distressed because he hadn't received any revelation from allah subhanahu wa taala, and the pagans of the time were mocking him and accusing him of being a fraud, and allah subhanahu wa taala reminds him that no matter what happens in this

world, what aways in the afterlife is better. also reminds muslims that this life will not go without trials and regulations that include death, hunger, and a loss of property and wealth. we will certainly test you with touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life and crops, give good news to those who patiently endor. it is a reminder for muslims, despite the immense trauma and suffering they are experiencing, to return to the book of allah for comfort and reassurance, that everything is rewarded and justice will prevail, if not in this world, then in the next. joining us on the show this week to discuss this topic are two very special guests, joining me in the studio is sayida zainab ibrahim. she has background in psychology and education and serves through her specialism in family mediation and community outreach. she's passionate about

community development and regularly volunteers at various charity initiatives worldwide. also joining us via skype is sayida uzma nakri. sister uzma is a qualified holistic. formational life coach and an international bestselling author. she is a practitioner of neurolinguistic programming and cognitive behavior therapy and is currently studying masters in islamic studies and islamic philosophy. thanks to you both for joining us. sister ozma, if i could start with you and just ask you what are the types of trauma and emotional scars we are seeing being inflicted on the people of gaza by the zionist regime. first and foremost for having me, it's a pleasure to be with you. um, unfortunately palestinians are facing trauma on so many levels, it's shocking that in this day and age we can literally watch people starve in hunger and thirst and the

healthcare system that has almost completely collapsed, this will inevitably cause immense and long lasting toll and the mental health the people within palestine, especially within gaza. "we can't even begin to imagine the heightened feelings of fear, anxiety, grief, anger, despair, and all sorts of feelings that will emerge, and this is associated with the breakdown of the social structure, the family separations that people are having to go through, and the destruction in the support network. this puts particularly children, you know, especially those without surviving family members, as you've opened up this program with. a very, very high risk of lots of different um traumatic experiences, even trafficking and forced um recruitments and all sorts of things, we've already seen reports of some babies being abducted and taken by um idf um to unknown locations, so um psychological and

physical and even sexual abuse, we've heard of many many cases, particularly recent one of a 13-year-old girl who was in imprisoned um in an israelian pris prison and some talk about it, some never talk about it, so we never really know the scale of these kind of things that go on, the lack of community or schools or safety, as we know all of the schools are bombed and being used as refugee camps and even there they're targeted within the schools and even before this genocide began, two thirds of the schools in gaza operated on double shifts due to classroom shortages um and other there are so many different types of traumas i can talk about, but witnessing or experiencing this immense amount of violence, you know, children, men, women witnessing terrible, terrible amount of violence over and over again, and kids holding other kids that are limbless and

lifeless, um, it's horrific, they are completely and utterly surrounded by terrorism, there is so much sudden violence, sudden loss of loved ones, and this is a... daily occurrence in in aghazan child's life and even in the west bank where there is no hamas resistant fighters if that's what they're portraying this whole thing as and then not to talk about the refugees or the war experience overall this is a reality that these kids are not only experiencing right now and not only experienced in the past but lived and born into this situation and then there is neglect you know the they merely surviving that's that's what they're doing right now. 'who has the time to place to to care for the children under these circumstances? it's not even a thing that they can think about like this, and then another type of trauma is the serious life threatening illnesses that will emerge are emerging right now and will emerge absolutely even after the seas seasfire. we are calling

for a cease fire and i cannot wait for the day that this announcement is made and and we we all want this suffering to end, but this will not be the end'. the suffering of the palestinian people because of their lives being utterly destroyed, their infrastructure, their healthcare system has been broken down, this will affect people for very, very long, long time to come, way beyond this, this current genocide that they're having to face and then there is lack of adequate food, water and basic necessities to life. if they aren't dying of bomb, they are withering away without food and water, and even before this this current genocide, 97% of the water was contaminated right, and so the mortality rate within razza and for children especially was exponentially high and right now, it's so much so so less the supplies that they they're starving and they don't have enough water and then there is um

the poverty and what's now gonna happen after this war is finished but 61 this is before these right these figures that i'm giving you is before this current um i don't like to call it a war but the genocide that is taking place 61% poverty rate within within palestine within gaza and 63 percent food. insecurity of of 63% of people around there and 35% of children under five in gaza are rich risk of not even ever reaching that developmental potential due to the chronic trauma that they're having to face all of the times, and then another type of trauma they're having to face is fear of being separated or are being separated from their parents. lot of children have lost, if not one then both of their parents and have no support network around them. um, this is... intergenerational trauma, meaning trauma that is experienced by descendants of the people

who survived past trauma, and this is also chronic trauma, which is prolonged, persuasive, and conditions, as i've described earlier, and not to mention the institutional discrimination and dehumanization of palestinians all across, and then yeah, 95, i'm so sorry, yes, no, no, please, i was just going to going to say it's you know really um, heavy, heavy listening. to just see the layers upon layers of the difficulties that we are seeing the palestinian people, not just going through now, but obviously going to be going through um in the future, and i will come back and we can pick up more on that, but sister zena, i just wanted to ask you as well, you these zinanis terrorists, because that's really how they have to be described, they're openly bragging about their atrocities, they're mocking their victims, uh, we see them uh coming out in the connessit. and saying and doubling down and saying even though there is investigation and case going on at the international criminal

uh court uh the international courts of justice that they are uh you know they're still going to do it and guess uh is this part of deliberate psychological warfare that they are waging against the palestinian people um firstly salam alaikum thank you so much for having me um i think they may think it's part of psychological warfare they may give themselves credit to able to have strength like that over the palestinians, but the palestinians are very resilient people, and i think this whole trend that's going on right now on social media that we're seeing where they're mocking the palestinians and they're suffering, or they are belittling it and they're making fun of it is part of an overall thing that's happened over the years the dehumanization of palestinians, if this was put a stop early on, whether it's someone on... social media doing something small or whether it's them in their parliament discussing genocide and getting away with it.

had anyone put a stop to this earlier on when the time was there when the various crimes had taken place over and over and over throughout the years, we wouldn't have gotten to where we are right now. so the fact that they've gotten away with these and now they think that they can just get away with anything going forward is really something that we should all take responsibility for and not just put the blame on themselves, but "if we want to go back to the original question of is it psychological warfare, i think it may be attempt, but i don't think they actually have that much power to do that if that's their intention. no, absolutely, and uh, with the pain and suffering we've been witnessing in gaza, ion islam wanted to speak to those who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences themselves, to try to find out not only what they went through, but how their faith got them through their most challenging time in life. of course, they they had to see..." refuge in the south of in the south of ghazah after what happened in in ghazzah in ghazza city itself of course the

bombing and the hard the hardship is is all over the ghaza strip but when they try to get for example food and that's the very basics we're talking about wheat we're talking about eggs we're talking about uh clean water and they see like tens of thousands of people in a street just like i'm talking about one street it's very crowded or very overcrowded. and the just you know that feeling that goes through father's heart when he knows that today might be very hard day for me to provide for my family of course islam is is... very kind of spiritual religion that that that you know for sure that if you again submissively rely on allah, keep praying, keep reading quran, because this is the for example for for palestinians and ghaza, this is the only thing that they could do, this is the only thing that they have in their hands to pray, to try and ask allah for for a

reliev, try and ask them for for an end to the catastrophe that they're going through, so it's it's a way of living, it's not just you thinking that this could happen at once and you start doing it because for example the attacks have started, it's a way of living for gazins to to rely on allah, it's a way for them, it's a way of living for them to to keep praying, and i and i personally like for example from an uproad perspective because i'm not in now, the only thing that keeps me going at the moment is me trying to pray at night or ask ask allah. to to please ease what what my family is going through, me strengthening this relationship and relying on allah with everything that do means that means that this would give me of course sakina, this would call me down knowing that now that i'm submitting everything to allah, i'm leaving everything to allah and i know that what's going to happen for me is a good

thing would at least make the whole kind of hardship that that i'm going through ' a bit better and it's it's definitely one of my coping mechanisms, it's definitely one of my family's coping mechanisms to to everything that they that they or i am going through. now sister zenab, just before uh we went there, we were speaking to yourself and you were mentioning the attempts of the psychological warfare by the uh israeli terrorists really uh waging against the palestinian people, but we've also been seeing a phenomenon which is that even though they may think they're getting away with it, you've seen or iof soldiers coming out and saying later on that they're being having nightmares and that the people that they've killed have been haunting them, what do you think is the basis of this? is it ptsd? i mean, how can we explain these types of phenomena? i mean, it could uh be ptsd, it could be guilt, i sure hope it's guilt, but the reality is we we don't know, we're not in

that position and we're not 100% sure, but what i do know is that we've been promised in the quran. that our enemies are going to suffer, so in surat nisa verse 104, um, allah says, and don't be weak in the pursuit of the enemy, if you are suffering, then surely they two are suffering, as you are suffering, but you have hope from allah, and that that which they don't have, so you're being told that if if you're at war with someone and you you see that you're suffering, the idea that they are not suffering is not there, allah is telling us, allah is promising us that they... suffering now, they may try and hide it, they may not report on their casualties, they may not report on um their deaths, they may not report on the amount of people who are seeking medical, mean mental health support after, but the reality is this is a promise to us made by allah, they are going to, we can say it's ptsd, we can say it's guilt, but ultimately it's the promise of god, absolutely, and uh if i could just come back

to yourself, mean how do we you know really begin even address the kind of trauma that do you were mentioning as well, but in particular the trauma that the children are going through? yeah, i mean, you know, it's it's such a difficult question because we're still an ongoing genocide, and while that's happening, it's very, very hard to kind of envisage the future right now, but then because the number one requirement for healing any type of trauma is safety, right? the you have to, you have to have safe place, you have to have safe environment, you have to have safe mindset, you have to have safe support network around you, there is no safety for for the children, not i mean we keep mentioning children because they are the most vulnerable of all, but we don't want to forget the women and the and the men and this

intergenerational trauma that i've been talking about, that these people are a survival mode on an ongoing basis and living this kind of on this kind of fear on an ongoing basis, the it has catastrophic consequences in the long run, so there has to be things put in place, these are generations living under oppression and war crimes, parents and children alike, you know, a child who is aged 15 in gaza has already been through five intense wars, not to mention the trauma living under the occupation and the constant threat of violence and the blockade and the you know most basic human needs not, provided for them, so you know, it is said that there is no such thing as ptsd in palestine, because there is no past, it's always a current trauma that they're enduring, and this has been the case for 80 years. so you know, i i think that unless we can get to point of safety, it's uh, it's really hard to to kind of go forward from

here, the first and foremost immediate thing that we need is the cease fire, and then after that, i think it's going to be very collect effort from around the globe, i don't think this is one institution, i don't think this is one type of a government that's going to be able to do this, we need doctors, we need psychiatric specialists, "we need people like myself, life coaches, we need volunteers of any and all types of backgrounds, we need everyone to jump on board to rebuild the kind of destruction that we've seen, nothing like it in modern history, to build some hope, to you to help them come out of what they've been suffering with, so i think it's going to take a lot of doing on everybody's part, but the first and foremost thing is that we need to get them to point of safety, inshallah, inshallah, absolutely, it's a long uh road ahead for everyone can..." concerned um zenab, you know, you did mention in your answer that uh we uh we go to back to the quran and allah promises us firstly regarding the um kind of the oppressors and his promise

about punishing them, but what kind of ayas the quran do we know can help deal with uh trauma and tragedies or give humanity uh kind of patience in these trying times? um, i think that's a really interesting question because i don't think there's one answer that... is going to fit absolutely everyone, i think the quran um as a whole is filled with um words of wisdom that bring peace and comfort to your heart and gives you strength. i think the first thing that would come to anyone's mind is very with hardship comes ease. um, that's one of the ones that we've been raised with, we're always told about, and it's very interesting because the wording of it doesn't say that uh, after hardship comes e think it's after, it's with exactly, lot of people think, okay, i need to go through this hardship to get to the ease, but it's allah saying that with it comes ease, and that might not be something that we comprehend, and that's what we need to always remind ourselves with allah is promising us

something just because it's different to how we imagine the definition of ease, doesn't take away from the promise that's been made to us. um, another one, sur verse 153, god says in the quran to seek comfort and patience in prayer, and that allah is truly with those, to our patients, so he is telling us again to, if if you're being tried, if you're being tested like everyone is in their days, to try and seek that comfort, not just through prayer, but through patience, so he's saying that patience in itself is going to give you comfort, but we always assume patience of something very difficult, something that i'm going to struggle with, allah is saying that's what's going to be um giving you comfort as well, there is um surat al imran verse 146, where allah says, and how many a prophets fought with him, many religious scholars, but they never, but they never let assure, but they never lost assurance due to what afflicted them in the

cause of allah, nor did they weaken or submit. allah is with the steadfast, and so again, he's he's telling us, i understand, i, you're not the first people who are being oppressed, this has gone on, this, this happens, but the the strength and the power and the the god's... might is with those who are going through that, but constantly reminding themselves that i'm not alone, and i think by knowing you're not alone, you feel strength, and that's something that is part the propaganda and is part of the mainstream media attack, making us feel weak and making us feel powerless and making me feel like there isn't anything i can do, what can i do, right? that goes against everything that's god's telling us, it goes against everything the the teaching of islam. and i think when it comes to those verses that we want to talk about when it comes to trauma, we shouldn't just focus on what's going to give me strength or patience during this time, but what's going to tell me and teach me exactly

how i should be acting and thinking during this time, because it's kind of it's it's a package right, we can't just focus on oh, i need to get through this, no, i'm going to get through this because, and that's why i think it's really important to just continuously read the quran um always, yeah, absolutely, it's our source of strength and comfort in these. difficult times, sister ozma, really quickly, we have about a minute left, but i did want to come and ask you maybe about some, we just heard about the quran there, but some duas that we've received, possibly from rasulullah and his uh family and selected blessed companions as well, yes, i think the sister picked some amazing amazing duas there from within the quran, but it is vital to continue praying for our brothers and sisters, the power of dua is absolutely undeniable and we cannot, but we cannot stop at prayers, as the hadith says, tie your camel and have the walkel, i think it's a twofold action based prayer, but we have treasures and gifts that can shift

mountains when it comes to duas from. salam and the go-to for for me when i'm going through anything difficulty but to you know to be talking about something a scale like what's happening in gaza the monajat of the amir al mominin a salam and also our fourth imam may allah bless him those are so powerful they are so um calming to the heart that i think it's really really important to help help yourself while you're going through these difficulties and and for the people in gazza as well but think it's also important to focus that everything that is happening today is paving the way for imamdi home, as hard as it is to watch the atrocities and the massacres and the genocide that's taking place, we must remain steadfast, strong and active, we must continue to bear witness and to do everything we can to help the palestinian brothers and sisters and the other just last surah that i would like to mention is in surah al imran ayah number 26

that's very powerful dua where he where allah says, say oh allah, the owner of sovereignty, you give sovereignty to whom you will, and you take sovereignty from whom you will, it is you who gives a and it is you who gives dishonor to whom whomever you choose, and i think duas like that give lot of sollis and lot of strength to know that at the end of the day allah has our back no matter what's going on and we are paving our way for something way grander, way grander than that we can even f them, inshaallah absolutely. and i think we needed to end on that note of uh strength as well because of course it is very difficult as yourself and sister zainab said to get bogged down but thank you so much sister uzma for uh joining us today and to yourself sister zainab as well that's all we have time for join us again next week for another edition of i on islam assalam alaikum.

this is for palestine, this week's show we'll be looking at south africa's momentous application to the international court of justice. in its comprehensive 84 page submission, south africa sets out the legal basis for its contention that israel is perpetrating genocide in gaza. you you have this pattern of the the west uh uh, obviously not just germany, but you fully expect that the british government, the us government of course has been completely dismissive of what south africa has done uh that continue this uh imperialist posture, and of course it was

south africa at first, and it was only that... for quite a while and then all of sudden a trickle of other countries joined bolivia amongst them and then of course later bangladesh joins and you've got a whole list of countries i think um around about 20 i possibly more.

press of headlines: iran's islamic revolution guards course says four of his military advisors have been assassinated an israeli terror attack in the syrian capital damascus. 106 days. to the us israel genocide in gaza, new report reveals that at least two mothers are killed every hour in the besieg gaza strip. endibon successfully launches a research satellite, placing it into orbit at an altitude of 750 km above the earth's surface.