A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine - Hardcover

This manual for tazkiyah, or "self-purification," is a spiritual self-help book. It not only describes the flaws in the human spiritual situation, but it also acknowledges the difficulties and insecurities we all experience occasionally and suggests solutions. Ibn Daud has provided a novel exposition of this age-old science in a modern framework that can be used in today's fast-paced, hi-tech society. A new generation will find it simple to reference due to its colourful traffic light system and tabular design. Ibn Daud also discusses the actual and potential detrimental effects that social media may have on our spiritual development and contrasts these effects with realistic ways that its influence may be used for good.The author draws on more than a thousand verses from the Qur'an and reliable hadith to inspire reverence for the Almighty Cherisher and His Beloved Prophet. He also refers to writings by Imam Abdur-Hamid Al-Ghazal, known as the "Proof of Islam," who lived in the 11th an