Lesson 6 of 6 · When it is not just habits
If it has not responded, that is information
This is the point of the lesson.
If you have anchored the morning for a month, moved the phone out, moved the coffee, and the nights have not changed, the answer is not that you need to try harder or want it more. Sleep is not responsive to effort, and it never was.
Sleep that does not respond to ordinary changes is a reason to see a doctor, not a reason to redouble. That is not a defeat and it is not you being sent away. It is the same move as taking a cough that has lasted three months to somebody who can look at it.
Going is not a concession wrung out of the religion either. The instruction in the tradition is in the imperative and it is addressed to worshippers: use remedies, for Allah did not send down a disease without sending down a cure for it. Neither of the reports below makes any claim about what you have, which is exactly what is wanted here.
Take the list with you. Which of the four it is, how many nights a week, how long it has gone on, what you have already changed, and anything from this lesson that sounded like you. Ten minutes of writing gets you a much better appointment.
Qur’an and Sunnah
The instruction is in the imperative and is addressed to worshippers. Use remedies, for Allah did not send down a disease without sending down a cure for it.
Usamah bin Sharik said:"Some Bedouins asked: 'O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) shall we treat (our ill)?' He said: 'Yes, O worshipers of Allah! Use remedies. For indeed Allah did not make a disease but He made a cure for it' - or - 'a remedy. Except for one disease.' They said: 'O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w)! What is it?' He said: 'Old age
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2038graded sound, albanithe Arabic and its grading
There is no disease Allah created without also creating its treatment. That is the plainest form of the instruction, and like the report beside it, it makes no claim about what you have. That is exactly what is wanted, because unresponsive sleep goes to somebody who can look at it.
Narrated Abu Huraira:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment
Sahih al-Bukhari 5678graded sound, sahihaynthe Arabic and its grading