Addiction is a destructive phenomenon that is affecting the Muslim society. The important question is that how can this be prevented. What do Islamic teachings say about preventing addiction? What are the Islamic psychological ways of preventing addiction?
Introduction to Addiction Prevention from Islamic Perspective
Reza Kumarsi and Abbas Pasandideh
First edition of the book “Introduction to Addiction Prevention from Islamic Perspective” was procured and published by Ethics and Humanities Research Center affiliated to Dar al-Hadith Institute. The responsibility of authoring this book was given to two of the researchers from the Department of Psychology of the Ethics and Humanities Research Center, Muhammad Reza Kumarsi and Abbas Pasandideh.
A part from the introduction of this book says, “Addiction is a destructive phenomenon that is affecting the Muslim society. The important question is that how can this be prevented. What do Islamic teachings say about preventing addiction? What are the Islamic psychological ways of preventing addiction?
In Islamic sources, there are few traditions that directly deal with the issue of addiction. Although there are few traditions about this issue but they are not sufficient to answer a complicated problem like addiction.
The approach taken in this book is that first the causes and the reasons of addiction are identified and then ways of preventing these causes are discussed from the Islamic perspective. Study of different theories about the roots of addictions showed that inclination to addiction is due to certain key factors like pleasure-seeking, dissatisfaction, lack of fortitude and tolerance, ingratitude, excessive desires, lack of self-control.
As it can be clearly seen that each of these above mentioned factors is related to a very important topic discussed in Islam. In this manner different ways of preventing these causes can be easily found from the Islamic sources. Islamic approach offers different methods to save oneself from each of these different factors and all these different methods are based on some fundamental and solid Islamic principles.”
Different sections of this book are:
Section One: Pleasure-seeking and addiction
Section Two: Dissatisfaction and addiction
Section Three: Impatience and addiction
Section Four: Ingratitude and addiction
Section Five: Seeking happiness and addiction
Section Six: Excessive desires and addiction
Section Seven: Lack of self-control and addiction
The first edition of this book was published on the request of National Welfare Organization in 3000 copies, containing 245 pages. It was printed and distributed by Dar al-Hadith Publishers in August 2013 in paperback edition.
