March 2021

There are many psychologies, many explanations for human behavior. Every personality theory offers an interpretive system, a set of categories, labels and explanations. Each posits some theory of the dynamics of the psyche’s desires, hopes, beliefs and expectations. Most theories attempt to weigh the relative contributions of biology and/or social experience. Norms and ideals set [...]

I am a revert to Islam. Do I need to pay Zakat on my wealth for the period when I was not Muslim? Like Salah and other religious responsibilities and duties in Islam, they are obligatory upon Muslims only. A person who has embraced Islam should try to fulfil his or her responsibilities to the [...]

Ilm al Nafs – Islamic Psychology The history of ‘modern’ psychology was shaped by Ancient Greek wisdom for many centuries, until the Islamic scholars carried the Greek texts to the great Houses of Wisdom. Here, they developed their own ideas and a new Islamic psychology emerged, which would later influence Europe as it shook off [...]

The disease (medical) model Vs The positive psychology model - do we need a revolution in mental health?  For more than a century, psychology has emulated the medical model – maintaining the position that psychological problems are like medical disorders, with specific underlying pathologies that first need to be diagnosed and then treated by specific [...]