A Study on the Treatment of Psycho-ideological illnesses According to the Holy Qur'an with a Focus on Tafsir Al-Mizan

Subject Areas : Two quarterly scientific commentary of the revelation texts

Mohammad Hussein Sahini ¹ (گروه علوم قرآن، واحد زنجان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی. زنجان. ایران)
Aziz-ali Dehghani Dehghani ² (PhD student in Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.)
, Hossein Moradi Zanjani ³ (Assistant Professor of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran.)
Farhad Edrisi ⁴ (Associate Professor of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran.)

Received: 2020-02-03 Accepted : 2021-01-20 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: Holy Quran, Tafsir al-Mizan, Psycho-ideological illness, treatment and cure,

Abstract :

          Considering the verses of the Holy Quran, we come across the fact that man has two important and main dimensions, spiritual and physical. Either of these two dimensions can be healthy or ill. Just as there is a cure for human physical illness, there is also a cure for human mental illness. The Holy Quran has introduced its verses as a healing prescription of the human soul. In Qur'anic literature, mental or spiritual health is tied to the keyword "heart" and the healthy heart and the ill heart have been discussed. The fact that the Holy Qur'an calls a heart ill, it means that the heart definitely impairs the confidence and the endurance of the soul. The data of this article have been collected by library method and have been written in a descriptive-analytical manner. This article tries to examine Psycho-ideological illnesses from the point of view of the Qur'an with the aim of treating them. Tafsir al-Mizan, quoting Quranic verses, emphasizes that those who chose heresy in belief, and hypocrisy in practice do not have mental health, and the manifestation of heresy and hypocrisy is due to the weakness of faith in God, which results in a temperament appropriate to heretical morality. Allameh Tabatabai believes that man is a free and independent being and can consciously change direction and reform his ideas and thoughts. This will be possible when man resorts to God from the danger of sins and deviation and asks Him for infallibility and immunity. Tabatabai has not accepted the therapeutic effect of the Qur'an on physical pain but has accepted its therapeutic effect on mental and psychological pain; consequently, the Holy Qur'an is the cure for human Psycho-ideological illnesses and can heal illnesses such as heredity, hypocrisy, polytheism and the like. Therefore, Muslims should appreciate this divine blessing and use the gifts of the Holy Quran to achieve true happiness and salvation.