A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine

Spiritual wellbeing is paramount. 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.

26 DISEASES & THEIR DEFINITIONS

Defining a disease at the start of each chapter helps the reader understand and recognize its characteristics

250+ SIGNS & SYMPTOMS

Highlighting how signs and symptoms of a spiritual disease manage to creep up on a person

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

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

TABULAR DESIGN

Presenting spiritual information in a clear and structured format that makes it easy to reference, understand and therefore implement

500+ ACADEMIC & PRACTICAL REMEDIES

Apply the ‘academic’ or conceptual remedies, in terms of better understanding your faith and refining your perspective, and begin to turn things around by putting practical day-to-day actions in place

1000+ REFERENCES

References have been fully verified by qualified scholars using ‘The Clear Qur’ān’ translation and authentic Prophetic narrations, alongside beneficial advice from the most famous works of Imām Al-Ghazālī (RA)