Quran and Mental Health

One of the current discussions regarding the subject of science and religion is using sciences to understand Quran’s scientific mentions. In the subject of Quran and mental health, the advances and achievements of psychology and mental health can also be used to extract mental health rules from Islam’s perspective. In this article some of the cases and the overall principles of this field are mentioned. Also as a guidebook and a book of instructions for human life, Quran has presented some methods to provide human’s mental health which some of cognitional and behavioral methods will be mentioned in this article.Cognitional By changing and improving human’s thought and cognition regarding the world and changing his world-view to a Divine world-view, Islam’s teachings effects human’s look at life’s problems and also effects his attitude, sentiments and feelings. The results are: believing in God, trusting God, satisfaction and resignation, positive thinking, being hopeful to life, placing Prophet (peace be upon Him) and Divine saints as a exemplar and believing in resurrection. Behavioral By improving human’s thought and guiding it towards a Divine world-view, his behavior will be improved and these correct behaviors between members of a family, in the relations between two individuals and in economical relations can provide metal health of individuals.