Depression, anxiety, and loneliness are common problems today. Envy, greed, and materialism invade our hearts and poison our relationships and lives. Racism, warfare, and economic deprivation — the symptoms of a greater spiritual weakness — are destroying our world.
What is the solution to all of these problems? We need a spiritual awakening, a healing of the hearts that can heal the world. We need to rediscover our iman.
This book attempts to revive authentic Islamic spirituality — based on the Qur'an and Sunnah — by collecting and explaining forty hadith on the diseases of the heart and their remedies.
Why Frame Spiritual Ills as Diseases With Cures
Because that framing, drawn directly from the Prophetic tradition, does two things a purely psychological account cannot. It takes the condition seriously as something real and treatable, rather than dismissing it as mere weakness of will — and it locates the cure in revealed guidance rather than only in secular technique.
The Qur'an itself describes disease in the heart, and describes the Qur'an as a healing for what is in the chests. This book works from that framework outward.
What Is Covered
Forty hadith addressing specific spiritual diseases — envy, greed, arrogance, despair, heedlessness — each paired with the remedy the Prophet ﷺ taught for it.
Who It Is For
Any Muslim struggling with the ordinary spiritual ailments of modern life, and readers interested in Islamic approaches to mental and spiritual wellbeing grounded in text rather than borrowed uncritically from secular frameworks.
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