Faith, Health and Psychology

AbstractReviews of research on religion and health have concluded that at least some types of religious behaviours are related to higher levels of physical and mental health. The objective of this paper is to display and demonstrate how religion can be directly effective on human health. Giving a religious understanding of human being and his nature, the writers point out that there are two general sorts of needs and requirements:bodily and non-bodily. Once any kind of these requirements are neglected, some sort of disorder and crisis are emerged. An explanation is given to defend that when non-bodily needs are overlooked the emergence of psychological disorder is expectable. According to Islamic perspective there are many ways that we could keep our life saved from illness and psychological disorder. Praying as a first value advice in Quranic verses plays an effective role to provide human being with health and calm life. On the basis of Islamic teachings a detail explanation regarding relationship between faith and psychological health is given. The connection between faith and psychological health in this paper is based on particular kind of human nature