Thread on:

• How famous English philosopher and physician John Locke divorced the mind from the rational soul.

• Mental health treatment and how Muslim Scholars treated mental illness in the 9th century with current modern day Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( CBT ) techniques.

• FREE gift at the end.

1) How did Philosopher John Locke view the human being?

2) What are they?

3) George Makari in his book "Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind" states :

4) How do Muslims look at the soul?

5) What is truly rational , what is truly intelligent is that you recognise Allah by looking at the creation. Hence when Allah talks to us in the Quran he addresses the aql (intellect) :

6) This now takes us to the Muslim World

Abu Zayd Ahmad Ibn Sahl al Balkhi (rh) wrote a book in the 9th century:

7) So 9th century Islamic scholars and physicians were treating mental health issues whlist maintaining the rational soul existed:

8) He gives methods to people who are in a mental difficulty like anxiety, nervousness, anger , sadness and all other sorts of feelings that we go through as human beings:

9) So just to reiterate. Muslims never divorced the concept of soul from mind in order to treat the sicknesses of the mind:

10) Abu Zayd al Balkhis "Sustenance of the Soul : The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of a 9th Century Physician"

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All these notes are from these 2 lectures: https://twitter.com/ZabAkbar/status/1221008083104796677?s=19