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Healing Power of Faith and Prayer: Religoius and Scientific Perspectives

Prof. Abdul Majid
Department of Zoology,
Government Postgraduate College,
Mansehra, Pakistan
We turn to God and He Renews our Strength so that we can run and not grow weary, so that we can walk and not feel faint. The man or woman who turns to God is like a tree planted by a stream. What they share with [...]

The “Yoga” of Islamic Prayer

By Karima Burns, MH, ND
11/01/2001
Called “one of the oldest systems of personal development encompassing body, mind and spirit” by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, yoga has become one of the fastest growing health trends today. It has been renowned for centuries for its curative powers of movement.
Yoga consists of a number [...]

Religion in Mental Health: the Soul Under Pressure

By Hwaa Irfan
Staff writer for the Health and Science section of Islamonline
Minorities in Great Britain struggle to find their own identities.
According to the World Health Organization this year, depressive disorders are the fourth leading cause of ill health and disability amongst adults worldwide. By 2020, it is expected that mental health disorders will represent the [...]

Prophetic Medicine: An Old Prescription for a New Era

By Dr. Hossam Arafa
A genre of medical writing intended as an alternative to the exclusively Greek-based medical systems derived from Galen was that called at-tibb an-nabawi or “Prophetic Medicine.” The authors were clerics, rather than physicians, who advocated traditional medicine as mentioned in the Qur’an and as practiced during the life of Prophet Muhammad. [...]

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