we only four ministry strongly condemned the israely attack in syria that led to the marterim of several people. for ministry spokesman. kanani said that iranian advisors in syria have a leading role in the fight against terrorism. kanani said tehran reserves rights to response to to respond to israel's organized crimes. the death doll from israely onslot in the gaza strip is nearing 25,000 as the regime continues with a steady carpet bombing campaign. according to new report published by an independent human rights watch, israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers. yemen's

prime minister says the us and the uk seek to protect israel by all means possible and destroy any group or country that stands against it. abdul aziz bin habtur also told press tv that yemen will continue its anti-israeli operations until the israeli of onslot on gaza stops. worldwide rallies are of held in solidarity with palestinians in gaza as israel protesters call for an end. to the regime's genocide in the coastal territory, in the israeli city of ha, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators and sought to confiscate the placards. the iraq's islamic resistance says that has launched a barrage of missiles at the us-1 and al-assad base in western iraq. reports say this is the biggest of anti-us operation by the iraki resistance since october 7. there have been no immediate reports of casualties.

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 try to survive israel's genocide. 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, leaning into the quran for sukor. 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. stress: the zianist regime has shown itself 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 especially brutal as entire extended families of 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 comfort to the muslims in surah duha when he says to the prophet muhammad, 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 ta'ala reminds him that no matter what happens in this world, what aways in the afterlife is better. allah subhanahu wa taala also reminds muslims that... this life will not go without

trials and tribulations 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 transformational life coach and an international best-selling author. she is a practitioner of neurolinguistic programming and cognitive behavior therapy and is currently studying a 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, especially those without surviving family members, as you've opened up this program with, a very, very high risk of lots of different traumatic experiences, even trafficking and forced recruitments and all sorts of things before, 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, you now, 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... and 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 uh hamas resistant fighters, if that's what they're portraying this... thing us 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 that they merely surviving that 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 um the seas cease fire we are calling for a cease fire and i cannot wait for the day that this announcement is made uh and we we all want this suffering to end but

this will not be the end of the suffering of the palestinian uh people because of their lives being utterly destroyed their infrastructure their healthcare system has been broken down this will affect people for a 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 ghaza in 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 the poverty and what... now gonna happen after this war is finished, but 61, this is

before these right, these figures i'm giving you is before this current, 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% 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. elemental 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 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 prolong. pervasive and conditions, as i've described earlier, and not to mention

the institutional discrimination and dehumanization of palestinians all across, and 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, just 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 zinab, i just wanted to ask you as well, you these zionist 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 i 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 be 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, i and 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 the they had to seek refuge in the south of in the south of gazah after what happened in in gaza, in ghazza city itself, of course the bombing and the hard, the hardship is is'. over the gaza 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 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, very overcrowded, and they just you know that feeling that goes through father's heart when he knows that today might be very hard day for me to... vide 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 in gaza, 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 relief, 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. has 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, with 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 cobing mechanisms to to everything that they that they... what i am going through now, sister zeinab, 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 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 idf or iof soldiers coming out and saying later on that they're being uh 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 verse, iah 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 are 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 suffer. 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 really begin even address the kind of trauma that

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, port 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 "these are generations living under oppression and war crimes, parents and children alike, 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 collective

effort from around the globe, i don't think this is one institution, i don't think this is one type of 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 uh, 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, shallah, absolutely, it's a long road ahead for everyone concerned, um, zeinab, you know, you did mention in your answer that we uh, we go to back to the quran and allah prom. firstly you regarding the um kind of the oppressors and his promise about punishing them, but what kind of as of the quran do we know can help deal with 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 is one answer that is going to fit absolutely everyone, i think the quran as a whole is filled with 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 efter, 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,

surah al baqarah verse 153, um, god says, um, in the quran, to seek comfort and patience in prayer, and that allah is truly with those who are patient, 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 of 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 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 um 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, you just heard about the quran. but some duas that we've received possibly from uh 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 walkal. i think it's a twofold action based prayer, but we have treasures and gifts that can shift mountains when it comes toas from 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 um amirul 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 very important to help um help yourself while you're going through these difficulties and and for the people in gaza as well, but i think it's also important to focus that everything that is happening today is paving the way for imamdi home as hard as is to watch the atrocities and the massacers 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 a very powerful 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 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, inshallah, absolutely, and i think we need to end on that notes of strength as well, because of course it is very difficult as yourself and sister zinab said to get b down, but thank you so much sister ozma 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 and islam.

this is for palestine, in this week's show we'll be looking at south africa's momentous application to the international court of justice in his 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, you know, obviously not just germany, but you fully expect the british government, the us government of course has been completely dismissive of what south africa has done, 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 laterally bangladesh. joins and you've got a whole list of countries, i think um around about 20, i possibly more, when the palestinians were dealing with israeli atrocities, arab betrayal and several other issues, iran's islamic revolution in 1979. was inspirational for the palestinian resistance factions to pursue their cause in a different way. but, besides iran's unwavering support for the palestinians, efforts by legendary man has gone down in the history of the resistance movement. general qasim sulaimoni.