Going to Psychiatric Doctors and Treating Heart Diseases
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to go to psychiatric doctors, given that a mental illness is a disease of the heart? Is its cure not only in lawful remedies?
Answer:
The disease of the heart, which is a disease of desire or doubt, is not treated by doctors; it is treated by religious knowledge and the pure revelation. As for the organic disease of the heart, it is treated by psychiatric doctors or doctors in the treatment of medicines.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to go to psychiatric doctors, given that a mental illness is a disease of the heart? Is its cure not only in lawful remedies?
Answer:
The disease of the heart, which is a disease of desire or doubt, is not treated by doctors; it is treated by religious knowledge and the pure revelation. As for the organic disease of the heart, it is treated by psychiatric doctors or doctors in the treatment of medicines.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثالث في انقسام أدوية أمراض القلب إلى قسمين : طبيعية وشرعية — islamhouse.com (58:12)
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