Treatment of mental and physical problems using holy quran (between illusion and reality)
Treatment of mental and physical problems using holy quran (between illusion and reality)

Summary/Abstract: The wide spreading practice of what is named spiritual healers and treatment with Quran (the Holy Book of Islamic religion) among Muslim nations now-a-days, to the extent that a lot of satellite channels are specialized in presenting such claimer therapists stimulated me to search and research, investigate, experiment and attend many sessions of that type of treatment being a Muslim physician. What stimulated me more (as a psychiatrist) for more activity was the fact that almost all candidates for such healers were proved to me to be psychiatric patients who have a straight forward diagnosable psychiatric illness and a high percentage of them appeared to be treatable and curable if advised to visit a psychiatrist for their problems. I had to review all my academic and clinical knowledge not only in medicine and psychiatry but in Islam as well (as a Muslim). Based on the scientific religious knowledge from Islamic academic sources it has been found that Islamic psychiatric way of management and treatment of diseases does not mean the using/ relating the texts of Quran.

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