Hearts Find Peace in the
Remembrance of Allah
Harun Yahya
According to research by David B.
Larson, of the American National Health Research Center,
and his team, comparisons of devout and non-religious
Americans have given very surprising results. For
instance, religious people suffer 60% less heart disease
than those with little or no religious belief, the
suicide rate among them is 100% lower, they suffer far
lower levels of high blood pressure, and this ratio is
7:1 among smokers.
It was reported in one study published in the
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, an
important scientific source in the world of medicine,
that people who describe themselves as having no
religious beliefs become ill more frequently and have
shorter life spans. According to the results of the
research, those with no beliefs are twice as likely to
suffer stomach-intestine diseases than believers, and
their mortality rate from respiratory diseases is 66%
times higher than that of believers.
Secular psychologists tend to refer to similar figures
as “psychological effects.” This means that belief
raises peoples’ spirits, and this contributes to health.
This explanation may indeed be reasonable, but a more
striking conclusion emerges when the subject is
examined. Belief in Allah is much stronger than any
other psychological influence. The wide-ranging research
into the connection between religious belief and
physical health carried out by Dr. Herbert Benson of the
Harvard Medical Faculty has produced surprising
conclusions in this area. Despite not being a believer
himself, Dr. Benson has concluded that worship and
belief in Allah have a more positive effect on human
health than that observed in anything else. Benson
states that he has concluded that no belief provides as
much mental peace as belief in Allah.
What is the reason for this connection between belief
and the human soul and body? The conclusion reached by
the secular researcher Benson is, in his own words, that
the human body and mind are regulated to believe in
Allah.
This fact, which the world of medicine has slowly begun
to appreciate, is a secret revealed in the Qur’an in
these words: “… Only in the remembrance of Allah can the
heart find peace.” (Qur’an, 13:28) The reason why those
who believe in Allah, who pray to and trust in Him, are
psychologically and physically healthier is that they
behave in accordance with the purpose of their creation.
Philosophies and systems which contradict human creation
always lead to pain and unhappiness.
Modern medicine is now tending towards the realization
of this truth. As Patrick Glynn put it: “[S]cientific
research in psychology over the past twenty-five years
has demonstrated that… religious belief is one of the
most consistent correlates of overall mental health and
happiness.”
References:
1. Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, the Reconciliation
of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World (California:
Prima Publishing: 1997), 80-81.
2. Herbert Benson, and Mark Stark, Timeless Healing (New
York: Simon & Schuster: 1996), 203.
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