Ravanshenasi & Din

This paper is the third part of our discussion aimed at explaining the methods of providing mental health in religion. In the first part, the nature of mental health in different psychological schools and in Islam was studied. Then some of the factors of mental health attended to by western thinkers were presented from an Islamic viewpoint. In the previous part, from other factors provided in the light of Islam, four parameters were discussed: 1. stability of personality; 2. self-actualization; 3. harmony of insight, attitude and action; 4. mental peace and anxiety removal. Then, from Islamic methods of achieving mental peace, those methods pertaining to mind and insight were mentioned, such as promoting knowledge and preventing disturbance of insight; filling cognitive gaps; belief in God; developiny of a divine insight preserving and enhancing it gradually; and the revival of innate nature. In this part, as the role of the following methods Islamic methods for realizing mental peace, will be discussed: attitudinal and functional methods, reducing worldly attachments, normal behavioral teachings, penitence, reducing the feeling of remorse for past actions, reinforcing one’s will for giving up wrong deeds.