Ibn Daud - A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine

characteristics are present in your own inner and outer behaviour,
and select the disease(s) with which you can most closely correlate.
Remember that in order to purify yourself, you must begin to
recognise and accept the truth.
The Prophet said, “In the body there is a morsel of flesh, if it is
sound, the whole body is sound. If it is corrupted, the whole body is
corrupted. Indeed, it is the heart.” [%a#ī# Al-Bukhārī 52, %a#ī# Muslim 1599:107]
Step 6: Apply Spiritual Medicine
You should then begin to understand and apply the ‘academic’
remedies, in terms of better understanding your faith and adjusting
your mindset, before implementing the ‘practical’ remedies in
earnest.
SELF-PURIFICATION
Allāh
[As-Shams 91:9]
says, “Successful indeed is the one who purifies their soul.”
Step 7: Continually Strive
The Prophet said, “The one who strives in the way of Allāh the
Exalted is he who strives against his soul in the obedience of Allāh.”
[Musnad A#mad 23967]
But just like medical prescriptions, if you apply the techniques that
have been compiled from the vast teachings of the Qur’ān and the
exemplary model of the Prophet , you will then see results. If you
work on your heart by steadily and consistently implementing what
is suggested here, you will begin to see changes in your life, your
condition, your society, and even within your own family dynamics.
It is a blessing that we have the science of purification, and that this
teaching exists in the world today. What remains is for us to take
these teachings seriously.
“Successful indeed is the one who purifies their soul, and doomed
is the one who corrupts it!” [As-Shams 91: 9-10]
May Allāh
friends.
grant us all the tawfīq and make us from His chosen
Āmīn.
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