A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine

Just as you seek the best medical treatment to avoid illnesses and improve your physical health and wellbeing, whether that be paracetamol to treat a mere headache or something more substantial like chemotherapy to treat cancer, your soul can also suffer from spiritual illnesses such as ghadab (anger), riya (showing off), takabbur (pride and arrogance), hasad (envy), lack of shukr (ingratitude), hubb al-jah (love of fame), hubb al-mal (love of wealth), and the like. Spiritual health is fundamentally different however, and in some respects more important. Why is this? The detrimental consequences of a physical illness will come to an end upon death; whereas, the evil result of a spiritual illness will begin upon death, and will last for eternity. This book includes: 26 diseases & their definitions: Defining a disease at the start of each chapter helps the reader understand and recognise its characteristics 250+ signs & symptoms: Highlighting how signs and symptoms of a spiritual disease manage to creep up on a person 500+ academic & practical remedies 1000+ authentic Qur'anic references & Prophetic narrations 7 step cycle of self-purification: A detailed explanation of each step of the continual cycle of self-improvement, so that you can create your own personalised programme to improve your spiritual health Tree diagram: An easy to reference contents page so that you can see at a glance the signs and symptoms, remedies and exceptions associated with each disease of the heart Traffic light approach: An easy to reference Red-Amber-Green system makes it easy to identify maladies of the heart (red), potential remedies (green), and possible exceptions (amber) across each disease Social media: The real and potential negative impact that social media has on our spiritual growth, compared with ways that its influence can be harnessed for benefit