FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: abusive parents, dealing with parents, emotional abuse, emotional health, mental health, righteousness to parents
/by YusufQuestion: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am a Muslim woman in her early twenties, living with my parents and I have always had trouble in my household. I have grown up in a toxic and violently abusive environment with consistent emotional, verbal and psychological abuse, and at many times physical abuse. […]
FILED UNDER: Featured Articles, Untold Stories, women
TAGGED WITH:: elders, faith, Highlighted, iman, mental health, qur'an, taqwa
/by ErinA student observes his grandmother dealing with dementia, and discovers the one thing that remains with her as her memory slowly fades. Dementia is a heartbreaking illness. It impairs a person’s ability to think, changes their personality, and can cause them to forget their most beloved ones. In times of hardship, when all else is […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Health, ANS Medicine
TAGGED WITH:: mental disorders, mental health, Schizophrenia, Suffering
/by YusufShaykh Salman Younas is asked about the level or degree of religious responsibility of a person who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have schizophrenia as diagnosed by a doctor who is not Muslim. Am I held responsible in terms of prayer, fasting etc? Answer: Wa alaykum assalam […]
FILED UNDER: Beneficial Knowledge, Featured Articles, Health & Wellbeing, Islam, Scholars, Traditional Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: Allah, Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, islam, mental health, Prophet Muhammad, psychiatry, psychology, therapy
/by YusufWhat Imam Ghazali focuses on is the development of internal character traits. God talks about the soul that will eventually return to Him and He describes that soul as being the tranquil soul. The soul that is at peace with itself, as opposed to a struggling soul, which God describes as self-accusing.
FILED UNDER: Beneficial Knowledge, Health & Wellbeing, Islam, Prophet Muhammad, Traditional Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: Allah, Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, islam, mental health, Prophet Muhammad, psychiatry, psychology, therapy
/by YusufThis is the second part of a talk by Shaykh Dr Asim Yusuf on approaches to depression and anxiety in Classical Islam. Here he presents the author and physician Abu Zayd Balkhi. I want to move on to a couple of these therapists. I say therapists. That’s a Freudian slip. The first of them is […]
FILED UNDER: Health & Wellbeing, Islam, Prophet Muhammad, The Prophet's Companions, Traditional Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: Allah, islam, mental health, Prophet Muhammad, psychiatry, psychology, therapy
/by YusufI am going to be talking about the issue of depression and anxiety in classical Islam. My focus is on some of the ways in which depression and anxiety were tackled in the classical Muslim civilization.
FILED UNDER: Guidance, Health & Wellbeing, Social challenges, Social Issues, Strengthening our Faith
TAGGED WITH:: certainty, depression, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, faith, mental health
/by AishaThere may be times when we feel that we aren’t benefiting from our faith. But true faith is when we still believe that Allah will do what He has promised. In this address, Dr. Ingrid Mattson explains this concept in relation to the believer’s heart, mind, and actions. How can Faith Benefit Me? If faith […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Hadith, ANS Living Religion, ANS Spirituality
TAGGED WITH:: anxiety, depression, distress, duas, Guidance, mental health, qur'an, stress, supplication, supplication to relieve distress, supplications for overcoming difficulty
/by sufyanAnswered by Shaykh Jamir Meah Question: Are there any specific duas or Surahs I can recite to help me with my constant state of anxiousness, depression and paranoia that I have been feeling due to a multitude of heavy things and it’s been weighing me down.I just need a way of easing my difficulties. Answer: […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel
TAGGED WITH:: disease, emotional health, health, hijama, holistic, ill health, Law of Cure, mental health, natural medicine, natural therapy, ocd, Shaykh Jamir Meah
/by Content TeamIn Shaykh Jamir Meah’s first article in this series, he discussed the importance of holistic healing for believers in the treatment of chronic disease. In this article, he specifically looks at the concept of health and disease, and how this understanding relates to our own religious states and practice. The Concepts of Oneness, Duality, and […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Prayer
TAGGED WITH:: alzheimer's, caring for elderly members of the opposite sex, dementia, elderly, ill health, life support, medical, mental health, mental illness, old age, parents
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadh Salman Younas Question: Assalam aleykum My grandma has totally lost her mind. She doesn’t know what she is saying, can’t eat, or relieve herself, so the family need to do everything for her. a. Is she exempt from prayers? b. Does she still have to cover herself in the presence of non-mehram […]
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