Depression and Islam - Iblal Rakha and Dr Menaz Akhtar

This piece aims to shed light upon a misunderstood condition, and explore the role of Islam in helping Muslim people to overcome their depressive syndrome. Searches for Islam and depression online yields worrying advice written by those uneducated in medical sciences, which can often leave the individual experiencing depression in a more damaged physical, mental and spiritual state than what they were in previously... (Apologies for the sub par formatting, the document was exported as a pdf and as a result there are discrepancies in the layout of the document.)