Struggling with My Mom’s Actions and Feeling Unwell While Reciting Quran at Home
Assalamu Alaikum everyone, I’m going through a tough time and would really appreciate some advice from those who understand both our deen and mental health. My mom has a history of things that scare me spiritually. Whenever I recite Surahs or make dua in the same house, I sometimes start feeling physically off-like tired, dizzy, or heavy. It got so bad once that I collapsed for 8 weeks and couldn’t do much. This is the first week I’ve felt better, but now she’s started acting harmful again. She doesn’t know I’m feeling okay yet, and suddenly she’s being abusive again. I wonder if it’s something spiritual. I grew up without family because of neglect and abuse and only recently met my family after almost 20 years. It’s been incredibly hard. I know stress and trauma affect the body, but part of me worries there’s a spiritual side to this too. She claims she stopped anything like black magic, but before I got sick, she said she gave photos of her children to someone abroad who asked for our hair. She gets angry when I bring this up and says she’s stopped, but I can’t trust her. She’s been telling me to harm myself since I was 12, is very hurtful, won’t let me move out, and accuses me of terrible things like trying to hurt her when I try to leave. She uses her illness as a way to avoid consequences but seems fully aware when doing harmful things. It’s hard to leave because she took all my money, made me lose my job, and my dad took my passport. I can’t afford to get a new one. JazakAllahu khair for listening. Any advice or duas would mean a lot.