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Writer's pictureM Reza Rifki

Mental Helath in Islam

Psychology is developed and founded in Western world proximately 18 century. This science keeps progressing from unconscious approaches developed by Sigmund Frued to analyze human deep desire to 21st-century to analytical psychological data analysis. Current practical psychology knowdays mostly to understand human behavior patterns to generate profits in business. This application such as Instagram, Tiktok, ext.


Psychology is a broad branch of science. It benefits humankind from many industries. The purpose of psychology is how to make humans flourish. Fourish means the ability to generate knowledge from and practice in order to feel a live and have a sense of living and happiness in life.


Happy and flourishing can be cultivated using many tools. There are many ways in Western psychology to open a happy and flourishing life. In the current psychology debate, people from around the world starts questioning a one-way approach to having flourishing life only using Western thinkers. The question emerges such as how certain civilizations before Western civilization's domination, flourished for more than 200 years cultivated knowledge, and sustain civilization harmony. How to keep a large population flourish before 18 century or before modern psychology? This question prompts each civilization had the ability to have flourishing life and psychological knowledge more than Western perspectives.


In Islamic World that had flourished from the 600 AD century in the Middle East to the last Islamic civilization which Ottoman Empire in the 1900s. Many scholars agree that Islamic civilization has many contributions to science. This proves that Islam has distinct psychology that can sustain and flourish a large number of people to invent innovations.


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