O mankind! there hath come to you a direction from your Lord and a healing for the (diseases) in your hearts,- and for those who believe, a guidance and a Mercy. || Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.|| We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.||And when I am ill, it is He Who cures me; || Had We sent this as a Qur'an (in the language) other than Arabic, they would have said: "Why are not its verses explained in detail? What! (a Book) not in Arabic and (a Messenger an Arab?" Say: "It is a Guide and a Healing to those who believe; and for those who believe not, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness in their (eyes): They are (as it were) being called from a place far distant!"
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Chapter 2 (The Spirit and The Soul)


The Soul According To Ibn-Taymeyah

Ibn-Taymeyah states that philosophers divide the soul into vegetarian, situated in the liver, the animal found in the heart, and the articulating placed in the brain. He proclaims that it is wrong to think that they exist as separate entities by themselves. Ibn-Taymeyah also states that: ''There are three kinds of souls: the dictating one which follows its evil inclinations and sinful pleasures; the rebuking soul which sins and repents and in which there is both good and evil; and the assuring soul which loves righteousness and hates evil thus becoming its manner and conduct. Ibn-Taymeyah, however, refutes the idea that there are three types of souls for each human being who has only one soul. They are rather different characteristics and conditions of just one self.
Moslem and Arab scholars were the first to discover the psychological, spiritual, and nervous factors found in the mental, spiritual, and physiological ailments. They were thus the first to establish what we now call ''Psychosomatic Medicine''. They strongly opposed isolating or imprisoning patients but they were the first in suggesting setting up mental asylums and psychiatric clinics for patients suffering from spiritual and psychological ailments.


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