The Qur'an & Emotional Health: An Introduction

There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its remedy.”

Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell
HG Publishing
Human Givens: A New Approach to Emotional Health and Clear Thinking
Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell
HG Publishing
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
The Octagon Press

The Qur’an
Translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Oxford University Press
Islam the Natural Way
Abdul Wahid Hamid
MELS
How to Master Anxiety: All You Need to Know to Overcome Stress, Panic Attacks, Trauma, Phobias, Obsessions and More
Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell
HG Publishing
How to lift Depression…Fast

By identifying needs which could be better met, you can use these questions to help you think constructively about how to improve your emotional well-being insha’Allah.

Stress, anxiety, anger, depression and addiction are the result of needs not being met.

We are also gifted with awareness, or an Observing Self

path of those who have received your grace; not the path of those who have brought down wrath, nor of those who wander astray”
QUR’AN, Surah al-Fatiha, verses 6 and 7

“Guide us on the straight path, the

Practicing Ramadan, giving our attention only to Allah (SWT) during Salat and practicing relaxation exercises (see here) can help us to learn greater self-control.

This is one reason why we follow any comment about the future with the phrase Insh’Allah: ‘If God Wills’; the future is not something we can know in the present.