prayer impact on mental health, from the point of view of Islam
Authors:
* Dr .Masoomeh Samadi(Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Education)
**Farzaneh Rahmani (MA in History and Philosophy of Education)
Islamic AzadUniversityCentral Tehran Branch
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abstract
people is a fact of the body and soul and every human being in the same way that are required to health body, the soul is their mental and also should be kept intact. Islamic teachings, great importance to the health body and human psyche. The aim is to answer this question that God, from the perspective of the Qur \' an, what impact on mental health is a human? to achieve this goal, the works of a library real and virtual have benefited and analytical description of the discussions. what he described as " the research findings can be a character with acceptable in existence and creation and as a result of faith in the unseen, against the creator of the deposits and humble. with the moral virtues, family and social relations with others in matters relating to the professional life and serious business in the wake of the solvent and with the official fear and hope, strong, health, the cleanliness and purity breath. In the Holy Qur \' an, to connect to destroy the source of an intractable and reminiscent of the grandeur and power and extremely riches and fear of suffering and hope to reward and love to placate marriages and God. mention whether members of such as prayers and prayers and opened the Koran and grace and blessings guilt makes all the criteria in humans human, and that is physically and psychologically " human and mental health."
Keywords: note, mental health, faith, prayers, praying, gratitude, guilty.
Introduction
Today, I believe that with the progress of science and technology industry figures also mental illness and more than witnessed the problems that we are on the body and the spirit of the people and put them in and compliance with its own environment is in trouble. While saying no one in front of the psychological problems and the risk of immunity may threaten anyone, but it should be the undeniable fact that as people mental capacity and their faith and strengthened its, can ways to solve the problem and dealing with the issues and problems and the great help in order to avoid being infected with mental illness.
As such, one of the issues that a large share of intellectual efforts, the Philosopher, society and psychologists, research and the investigation into the role of religion in general or some prayers in particular " mental health and the health and human depressed, anxious, and the more than any other time to engage the fundamental questions in this regard. research done factor of many of the RMS psychological distance from spirituality and God knows aversion
discussion of human health, a very important issue is that some may object to know, based on the theory of God, demographers fact of human body and soul and every human being as required to health body, the soul is also should be kept intact. Fortunately, the Islamic teachings of great importance to the health of the human body and soul is.
God Almighty in the Holy Quran, too, is the only way for the salvation and human prosperity in cultivation, " " and refined spirit and human psychology knows ((ye may that his Give))[sura aala,14]that each one of them was certainly ye may Give, and that it will definitely losing unclean.]Sura Shams,8-9]
And the Islamic tradition and also a lot in this regard is found, including this narrative that Imam Ali\'s), says: " health is one of the great riches divine blessing, like any other, to lose, so it is not known]colaini,C 8 15 p]
And said:Be aware of poverty of disasters and worse, the disease is the body and heart disease. know that piety, as the heart of the accuracy of the body will be.
The purpose of the heart disease and moral corruption conviction. [majlesi,beharalanvar,p 173 [.
In this paper, Shamuradov knowing the words of the spirit of and soul, we defined by the mental health criteria and Mental health and disease, " noted that the impact of God and mental health, from the point of view of the Holy Quran, " she said.
the issue of research and goals and the main problem, the study is the answer to the question that God, from the perspective of the Qur \' an, what impact on mental health is a human? to achieve this goal, the works of a library real and virtual have benefited and analytical description of the discussions.
1. the definition of mental health
so far several definitions of " mental health " provided that all stressed the importance of the sovereignty and integrity of personality stressed the other features.
1 - some mental health, " the balance between members of the environment and its reach prosperity." . [Goldstein,2]
2 - some of the mental health of cognitive mental interpretation of the situation that is " maximum effectiveness and couples satisfaction from the individual and social interaction, which includes the feelings and positive feedback couples and others." is. [Chauhan,S.S. 1991]
3 - mental health is meant to health and represent a positive and mental health, that could make progress, and the evolution of the individual, national and international aid, because when the mental health was known to achieve it, and this is the way for the individual and social development. [mental health principles, p13]
4 - a culture of psychology laroos, mental health said, " mental capacity for, and effective working for the difficult situations fluidity and restoring balance, the ability of having."
5 - the World Health Organization also " mental health within the overall concept of health and hygiene, full ability to play the role of social, psychological and physical health, not only the disease or backwardness." is not. [ganji,mental health,p10]
In the definition of the environment is important. According to the definitions of personal, with its environment (family members, colleagues, neighbors and society as a whole is good, consistent in terms of mental health, " will be the norm. The person with the psychological balance satisfactory will conduct its conflict with the inside and outside the world will solve in front of the failure of the inevitable life will be resistance. and if anyone can do and with their environment and ways of dealing, mentally ill will be considered, but because it is facing the danger that the conflict is not resolved to conduct a mild cognitive impairment.
In a wider range of mental health awareness is on the moral and material and incentives to think that the health and moderation and positive attitude and the action, which thereby and work with a value on the mobility and human and material and spiritual progress in all fields.
2. Background:
the issue of the health and well-being, and the spirit of attention, is the source of the discussion in the Qur \' anic verses and quotes imams (prophet\'s family). the healing and strategies to deal with the psychological pressures and human mental health, and also great tradition in this regard, many researchers mental health. Doctors Muslim science of medical school of Hippocratic jalinoos loans and, according to the concepts of the Koran and tradition, to the attention of the human mental health.
including Ali Ben al-Tabari\'s (192 247 Gh), which is the first book, " she Al-Hikmah " in seven volumes, and the most important issues in the medical and psychological health explained. [Rezai,Mental health and the paper,p8-9]
Then Mohamed bin zakariya razi (251 313 Gh)" demographics medicine or medicine cleric wrote, " in the number of the oldest of mental health. The writing with a life-chaning and have continued, and in the evening we in a treatise, magazines and scientific papers and dissemination of research results and embodiment of scientific conventions. . [Islam and mental health,Proceedings of an international conference on the role of religion in mental health, 1382 ]
Western psychologists in the vast research on the relationship with the psychological health of religion, and have done the results were positive, including: worship and religious practices, a shield safety in front of a disease, adding, studies have shown that believers longer life, the defence system, their body is stronger than other religious in hospitals are hospitalised, and physical activities are stable. pray again and recognition of their role in the most. . [Marks, Mark, 1997 ]
and also in suicides Checks, came to the conclusion that the religious beliefs to adapt and on the side of the problem. [the same, J., Alice (J. B Ellis)and the Smith (P. C. Smith) 1991]
3. healthiness criteria and psychosis vision of Islam
Unlike the procedure that most of the psychologists and neglect of the human aspect of the Secretary of the human States struggle, which allows its experiment in the lab, there! ".
fair Islamic religion in the investigation of the human personality, " And he added together because the body and in general, it can be said that the character of the norm in terms of Islam, which is his body and soul is balanced and the needs of each is satisfied. personalities in the human body is the norm, and health and its strength and its needs in the extent to which the holy religion, lawful.
4. the features of the norm in character.
to features of personality, the norm or, to put it, " Islamic " that has نمونه human spirit of psychological and, in the field of the main RMS public and the following:
-, intellectually and cognitive and creation; thinking, wisdom and knowledge and of suspicion and thought of his features.
belief in terms of faith in the unseen, i.e. faith in God, the prophets, heavenly books, the angels, the Day of Judgment and heaven and hell
- in the field of religious, humble against its creator is and perform prayers, including, alms-deed, the Hajj, Jihad in the cause of Allah, Allah the life and property, with relying on God of humiliation Perigee being peak, let us unite extremely, which is close to God and the approaching, adhering to find a divine ethics and find a slip of remorse forgiveness from God or repentance.
- in the moral virtues, patient, honestsingle hearted, trustee, virtuous, humble, let us unite is, to deliver on the hard work, right, will power, sovereignty and dominate the air and passion and his absence from the vote, including the moral characteristics.
- in the social relations " with good behavior with the people, and there is good, cooperate, conscience, unity and solidarity, and, amnesty and sacrifice, avoidance of the idle and always respect the rights of others, according to the understanding of just and fair and between the people in those dark ringlets, the kind of mutual trust between the people and made all members of society, such as members of the body of a united and links.
In Family Relationships: respect for parents and relatives, with his wife etiquette, his family and pay alimony, such as the family and features.in the affairs of life: sincerity and working in good conscience, work actively and aggressively, trying to win earnings permitted, the fight against poverty, corruption, discrimination and follow the criteria of attribute is his.
- and then the emotional and emotional, " God friendship, fear from God, hoping to her, the people of friendship and charity against them, kindness, eating anger and outrage control, not aggression on the rights of others, not jealous of blame remorse, if found guilty of committing to avoid the absence of and slander and avoid from them, including the features of his.
and as the Prophet said: " Dear heart full of hope, peace and security, can be a life-chaning with goodness to stave off and hatred and their anger. [He said, " the Prophet Muhammad who their anger - which is able to impose it collapsed - on the counter, God Almighty his heart of security and faith makes full." ]
and eventually qualities like the strength, health, the cleanliness of his body. [step beyond the Islamic psychology and mental health or morals in Islam, Sayyed Mohamed Baqer p 285]
Such personal view of mental health and well-being of the individual " and " the norm. picture of human " and " we will draw the features and criteria, a model of the people that need to be faithful to the formation of it. magnanimous Prophet also the first group of Muslims, according to the same characteristics and trained as a result of their character completely transformed from them and faithful people that could change the face of history. Today, our task is the first of these characteristics in ourselves and then in others to be able to create a healthy Islamic society with full people to get there.
5. the importance of God and mental health
Calm and mental health is part of life that anyone in any case to the demands of the constitution and Her apparel of all human beings of every sect and morals. a lot of research shows that religious bases can and physical and psychological problems and protect the human, according to the religious issues, worship and communication with God is the way that after centuries of separation from it, other times it and returned to the ability of the deep and its work in the fight against the problems of the new life that anxiety is also the fruit of it, and other cannot deny the interaction between the mental health psychology, and even in cases of medicine, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the religion.
So, mental health, to make them effective that the study of between different elements of mental health religious teachings to establish a spiritual factors mentioned that the same, and God.
6. Faith in God, the first step in the mental health
Monotheism and Faith and patriotism and obedience to God, the main objective of the Prophets and Imams and Islamic teachings, is the first step and psychiatric and mental health " faith in God ", because faith in human life and meaning him with pleasure and sweets, suffering and loss of failure, and frustration, not only the suffering and fun and the blessing to try and explain human testing. So the most important source of mental health, faith in God. someone who wants to God and the secret of him and his to take refuge before everything he had faith in the power and make the origin of the emotional and psychological.
God in the Holy Quran says:
Those who have provided their hearts and faith in God is calm Be aware that God is calm in hearts." [Sura Raad, 28 ] at first verse, we find that anyone who believe in God the same faith in God, and he would ensure that is at the heart of the origin of calm faith and later on to mention verses, emphasizes and says: " The only thing that would be a real confidence in the heart of the same attention to God and his mind.
to ensure the ideal of all human beings, because of the confidence of ignorance and fear and anxiety and to ensure that human achieved not ignorant and fearful and any ark wherein anxiety, but it must be borne in mind that a certain and the far right of return to the kind of human vision to God. Whatever the level of awareness and insight into more and more scope is sure to be higher degrees, so that even the prophets, seeks to ensure their faith in the past. In this regard of the Prophet Ibrahim learned from God that he has done that demand that demand led to ensure the heart."
and as said Ibrahim time my Lord to show how the dead, God said if you don\'t believe? " said: " Yes, I believe, but I want to see it. " [Al-Baqara Chapter 260 verse ]
So the confidence of the spiritual transformation is that all those in need, and in the light of the peace of mind to be very great and good for growth and prosperity in human excellence inside and outside as well as by those with a view to a future of hope and the inevitable conclusion to the seriousness of the human, and what can be.
But the heart? What should ensure that we are at the heart of states and their circumstances and several changes and two types of these cases is the heart and another one anxiety of peace, the two concepts and or in psychology and mining very place today and in the book is the word and culture of the letter in the meaning of confidence:
calm, heart, attachment insurgency and anxiety, and promised to late Allama tabatabaie, means inertia and calm and confidence to something that people with it and encouraged. . [interpretation of the following Al-Mizan 260 verse ]
in the meaning of anxiety words: the distress, shaking, overwhelmed and beating heart and the heart. So the confidence in this ayah means inertia and peace and to ensure that people with it back and be assured. [At Al-Bayan Assembly, p 481 ]
What the heavenly guidance from the heart is to have faith in God blessing, peace and security, and enjoy the inner mental health. because someone who has faith in God, his lawyer and their support. This was a warm heart and soul of inner trust, wry he; and the establishment of peace and security " faithful to breathe, " because the true faith in God to help him, and thanks to the Lord; hope and pray for the sake of God and, God has always been, and that\'s why he feels that always with her, and God helps him. This is the guarantor of faith, with the establishment of a feeling of security and prosperity in his breath. In contrast, faceless human, having such spiritual anchoring deprived