Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Siti Norlina Muhamad ¹, Hanisah Abdul Rahman ², Siti Aisyah Panatik ³, Fariza Md Sham ⁴, Nur Najwa Hanani Abd Rahman ⁵, Abdul Hafiz Abdullah ⁵

Affiliations
1 Associate Professor, Academy of Islamic Civilisation, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai , Johor, MY
2 Master Student, Academy of Islamic Civilisation, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai , Johor, MY
3 Associate Professor, School of Human Resource Development and Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malysia, 81310, Skudai , Johor, MY
4 Professor. Fellow Islam Hadhari Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43650 Bangi, Selangor, MY
5 Senior Lecturer, Academy of Islamic Civilisation, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai , Johor, MY

Abstract

Human consists two elements - physical and spiritual. In the context of science, studies of human events focus more on their physical or biological elements. There is still limited of research by scientists examines the spiritual elements, especially from Islamic perspective even when these two elements are widely mentioned in the Qur'an and studies by Islamic psychologists. Therefore, this article will discuss one of the spiritual elements of humanity namely emotional sadness. The study applied content analysis of the Qur'an and Hadith as well as Miskawayh and al-Kindi’s perspectives on sadness. Miskawayh and al-Kindi’s work is the focus of discussion. This article discusses the feeling of sadness from the perspective of Quran and Hadith, the impact of sadness, sad feeling from the perspectives of Miskawayh and al-Kindi and the method of treating sadness according to these two scholars. The findings show that sorrow and sadness is one of the forms of emotion caused by a number of factors. Extreme sadness can affect health physically and psychologically. Sadness can be solved through Islamic psychological methods that focus on human spiritual aspects.

Keywords

Sadness, Health, Treatment, Miskawayh, Al-Kindi.

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