Tag: psychology
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When Psychology Contradicts Islam: Reclaiming the Muslim Understanding of the Self, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Modern psychology has become one of the most influential forces shaping how people interpret their emotions, their relationships, and even their sense of identity. It has seeped into schools, workplaces, social media, and everyday conversation. For many Muslims, it has quietly replaced the Qur’an and Sunnah as the primary framework for understanding the inner world. Yet…
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The Forgotten Roots of Psychology in the Islamic Intellectual Tradition
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Long before psychology emerged as a formal scientific discipline in the modern West, Muslim scholars were already charting the inner landscape of the human being with remarkable precision. Their writings explored cognition, emotion, behavior, trauma, resilience, and the spiritual dimensions of the self. What we now call psychology was once known in the Islamic tradition as ʿilm al‑nafs —…
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The Mind Without God: Why Secular Psychology Alone Cannot Heal the Believer, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد In a time when the language of trauma, emotional pain, healing, mental abuse, and mental health has reached a fever pitch in Black Muslim America’s conversation with itself, an unmistakable trend has emerged: many Muslims now turn first—and often exclusively—to modern psychology and its practitioners for relief. For a growing number, the therapist’s office…
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Why Modern Psychology Without Allah Fails the Muslim Soul, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Modern psychology has achieved remarkable progress in understanding human behavior, emotion, and cognition. It has mapped neural pathways, decoded behavioral patterns, and offered tools for managing stress, trauma, and interpersonal conflict. Yet for all its sophistication, psychology as practiced in secular frameworks suffers from a fundamental blind spot: it attempts to explain the human being while…
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THE INCOHERENCE OF BLACK AMERICAN MUSLIM PSYCHOLOGISTS
There is nowhere I know where there has been good faith, intellectually honest, and dispassionate comparative analysis of modern western psychology in light of the Muslim belief system and Muslim Moral Psychology according to our sacred texts (Quran and Sunna). That is not too much to ask. Such research has to exist, considering the number…
Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders 