Mental Disorder – Stress and Depression
Often, our body becomes a host of particular disease, which may not be posing any substantial stress or damage evidently. However, treating it is also more important consideration which should not be left aside if there is no harm seen.
Ideally, if the disease is not physical, it could be Emotional, Social, Spiritual, or Mental Health related. Hence, as per the religious teachings, the effected must try to approach their problem, with treatment with Ruqya For Illness, first.
The Ruqya is accumulation of several verses from Qur’an and authentic Ahadeeth that are recommended and mentioned in Shariah for healing and problem solving.
Otherwise, any problem can be fixed with countless bounties of Almighty that present themselves in face of Honey, Black Seed, Olive Oil, Fig etc. While all these foods and herbs has remedial and health benefits in their particular ways.
However, medicine is a very vast field, and there are many alternate ways to treat any disease. Meanwhile, it is also proven treatments done by chemicals may not be as effective as treated by herbs and food.
If a person is suffering from hopelessness, depression and anxiety; they must firstly consider firming their belief in Almighty and His plans. Secondly, they should indulge more and prayer, supplication, Ruqya For Depression, and fasting.
Indeed supplication and fasting heals the soul, hence may pose very healing effect on an individual. Without any medication, if anything is treated, then why harm body with countless chemicals that may address the problem but would have side effects too.
If a person has to visit a psychologist, it is best to visit a doctor which beliefs in Almighty or spirituality, hence they will be treating them in the right manner. Furthermore, the doctor will also be helping his patient with right path appropriate for Muslims.
Allah (SWT) says: “Whosoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a true believer, verily to him We will give a good life and We shall certainly pay them a reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise).”
(An-Nahl: 97)
It was narrated that Suhayb (RAA) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “How wonderful is the affair of the believer; for all of his affairs are good; and this applies to no one except the believer. If something good happens to him, he gives thanks and that is good for him; and if something bad happens to him, he bears it with patience and that is good for him.”
(Muslim – 2999)
For a Muslim, worldly things and world is not the main concern, and worrying about future or pangs of life will only add to the anxiety. However, giving up to the higher, submission put a heart at ease.
Narrated from Anas (RAA), the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever is concerned mainly about the Hereafter, Allah (SWT) will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is concerned mainly with this world, Allah (SWT) will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what was decreed for him.”
(Tirmidhi – 2389, classed as saheeh by Al-Albaani in saheeh al-Jaami – 6510).
Ibn al-Qayyim (RA) said: “When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allah (SWT) alone, Allah (SWT) will take care of all his needs and take care of all that which is worrying him.
He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him, free his tongue so that it will speak only in remembrance of Him (dhikr) and cause all his faculties to work only in obedience to Him. However,
if a person spends his entire day with no other concern but this world, Allah (SWT) will make him bear its distress, anxiety and pain. He will leave him to sort himself out and cause his heart to be distracted from the love of Allah (SWT) towards the love of some created being, cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Him and cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving them.
So he will strive hard, labouring like some work-animal to serve something other than Allah. Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allah and obeying Him and loving Him will be burdened with servitude, love and obedience to some created being.”
Allah (SWT) says: “And whosoever turns away (i.e blinds himself) from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent, We appoint for him a shaytaan to be a Qareen (intimate companion) to him.” (Az-Zukhruf: 36) [Al-Fawaa’id, p. 159]
Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen (RA) was asked:
Can a believer become mentally ill? What is the treatment for that according to the Sharee’ah? Please note that modern medicine treats these illnesses with modern medicines only.
He replied:
Undoubtedly a person may suffer from psychological or mental diseases, such as anxiety about the future and regret for the past. Psychological diseases affect the body more than physical diseases affect it. Treating these diseases by means of the things prescribed in Shariah (i.e Ruqya) is more effective than treating them with physical medicines, as is well known.
One of the means of treating them is mentioned in the Sahih Hadeeth from Abdullah ibn Mas’ood (RAA), wherein the Prophet: “There is no-one who is afflicted by distress and grief, and says:
‘Allaahumma inni ‘abduka ibn ‘abdika ibn amatika naasiyati bi yadik, maada fiyya hukmuk, ‘adlun fiyya qadaa’uk. As’aluka bi kulli ismin huwa lak, sammayta bihi nafsak, aw anzaltahu fi kitaabik, aw ‘allamtahu ahadan min khalqik, aw ista’tharta bihi fi ‘ilm il-ghayb ‘indak, an taj’al al-Qur’aana rabee’ qalbi, wa noora sadri, wa jalaa’ huzni wa dhihaab hammi.
(O Allah, I am Your slave, son of Your slave, son of Your maidservant; my forelock is in Your hand, Your command over me is forever executed and Your decree over me is just. I ask You by every name belonging to You which You have named Yourself with, or revealed in Your Book, or You taught to any of Your creation, or You have preserved in the knowledge of the Unseen with You, that You make the Qur’an the life of my heart and the light of my breast, and a departure for my sorrow and a release for my anxiety),’ but Allah will take away his distress and grief, and replace it with joy.”
This is one of the remedies prescribed in Shariah.
One can also say “Laa ilaaha illa Anta, Subhaanaka inni kuntu min adh-dhaalimeen (none has the right to be worshipped but You, Glorified and Exalted be You above all the evil they associate with You! Truly, I have been of the wrongdoers)”
[Al-Anbiyah: 87]
Whoever wants to know more than that should refer to what the scholars have written about dhikr, such as al-Waabil al-Sayyib by ibn Al-Qayyim, Al-Kalim at-Tayyib by Shaykh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah, al-Adhkaar by An-Nawawi, Zaad al-Ma’aad by ibn al-Qayyim.
However nowadays, due to lack of faith, people are less receptive to the remedies prescribed in Shariah than in chemicals. You find nowadays people are relying on physical medicines more than the Organic Remedies for Illness, prescribed in Shariah.
Nevertheless, when a person’s faith is firm, the Remedies by Shariah are completely effective and may work faster and better than physical medicine.
We all know about the story of the man whom the Prophet ﷺ sent on a campaign and he camped near some Arab people. But the people near whom he camped showed him no hospitality at all.
Allah (SWT) willed that their leader should be stung by a scorpion and they said to one another, “Go to those people who have camped nearby, perhaps you will find a Raaqi (one who can recite Ruqya) with them.”
The Sahaabah said to them
A“We will not recite Ruqya for your leader unless you give us such and such a number of sheep.” They said, “Fine.” So one of the Sahaabah went and recited Ruqya for the one who had been stung.
He only recited Surat al-Faatihah throughout and the one who had been stung got up as if released from a chain.
Reciting al-Faatihah had such an effect on this man because it came from a heart that was filled with faith. The Prophet ﷺ asked him, “How did you come to know that it (i.e Surat al-Faatihah) could be recited as a Ruqya?”
Sadly, nowadays, religious commitment and faith have become weak and people rather rely on external physical medicines, and as a result they are in suffering.
But on the other hand there are charlatans who play with people’s minds; they are clever and able to trick people, claiming that they are good reciter of Ruqya when in fact they are consuming people’s wealth unlawfully.
Therefore it’s vital you avoid these two extremes; one extreme is those who think that Ruqya has no effect at all and the other is those tricksters who play with people’s minds by reciting false and deceitful readings. [Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/465, 466]
Lastly we ask Allah (SWT) to guide us and protect us from all types of anxiety and qualms, moreover, to open our hearts to faith, guidance and tranquillity, and Heal with Ruqya.