Mental Health: Quran verses to help with mental health

Article taken from: TheQuranRecital

It is really important to talk about and raise awareness about mental-health and mental distress. It’s a natural human condition and nobody is immune from it. There are Quranic verses and Prophetic teachings that indicate that everyone experiences some of these and this is part of our life struggle.

‘Indeed, mankind was created anxious’

Quran [70:19]

‘And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.’

Quran [2:155]

So mental health and mental distress is part of human nature rather than being a failure of it. It becomes an issue of how you deal with it which may turn into a problem. Whether you are in a state of comfort or hardship or stress or ease, it’s how you respond to it with patience or gratitude that will determine how much contentment you feel.

Contentment is felt in the heart and is a sense of peace and acceptance and what the Quran and hadith provide is a lesson that contentment is a feeling of peacefulness no matter what is going on around you.

Grief is a part of Sunnah

The Prophet (SAW) experienced periods of great grief and if you look at the period that is called ‘the year of sorrow’, in which his wife Khadija (RA) and his uncle Abu Talib who gave so much support, passed away shortly after one another, this period has been called this based on the feelings that the Prophet (SAW) had and the loss he felt.

Also six of his children died before him with some in infancy and others in adulthood so he has felt the pain and suffering and has grieved too. It also shows that if you have been given a heavy burden of sadness or depression etc, it is because Allah knows that you can bear it. It is a proof of your faith, not a proof of a lack of faith.

‘Indeed, mankind was created anxious’

Quran [70:19]

This verse means, whenever any harm touches a person he is frightful, worried and completely taken back due to the severity of his anxiety and despair that he will receive any good…