Why and How Spiritual Health Affects Physical Health based on Alavi's Philosophy and Wisdom

Within the view of philosophy and religion, spiritual medicine is responsible in the role of maintaining spiritual health, in the same way physical medicine is responsible for maintaining physical health. But does spiritual health effects one’s physical health? Does spiritual medicine play a role in physical health? First, we should discuss the effects of the soul on the body from a philosophical point of view pointing at how the soul and the body are one, and elaborate on the extent of the soul’s influence on the body from the point of view of Islamic philosophy. By examining the relationship between the soul and the body in spiritual medicine and physical medicine, we would be able to understand the role spiritual medicine plays in physical medicine. Then afterward, we would explain the evidence for the effects of spiritual health on physical health in the Qur’an and the Sunnah. There is evidence of two kinds: The general evidence; in the sense of how piety affects physical health and the treatment of bodily and physical disease. The partial evidence; like the effect of jealousy on one’s body and how it correlates to disease.