Towards positive psychology

This important reference aims to draw attention to the latent power within the system of faith and religion, which can grant believers immunity against many of the psychological diseases of the era. It was written by a specialized group of psychologists from major Western universities to provide a positive, straightforward guide free of academic complexities for Muslims around the world to achieve mental well-being and healing. This book takes us through an important aspect of the human sciences where different disciplines intersect. While psychology aims to understand underlying motives and predict expected outcomes in personality, aiming at bringing humans to balance and self-satisfaction, religion aims to make people happy and achieve the good of both worlds through acts of obedience, worship, self-purification, addressing worries, and facilitating life through an educational and corrective approach that seeks to establish the framework for the human relationship with others, oneself, and the Creator. Here, the lines intersect, highlighting the importance of positive psychology and its close relationship with religion. In this book, contemporary psychologists in Western academia rediscover the importance of religion in achieving balance and happiness in the life of the modern human. Researchers discuss the importance of remembrance, prayer, fasting, night prayer, charity, kindness, chastity, and Hajj — all not from a religious scholar’s perspective, but from the perspective of a psychologist or psychiatrist. A completely new book in its field within Arab culture, worthy not only of reading but of application. About the author