What Muslim Mental Health Gurus Aren’t Telling You (ft. Imam Abdullah Hasan)
Summary
In this episode of New Islam 21C, host Dr. Hamza Andreas Sottis interviews Sheikh Hassan, a scholar and psychologist, to critique the integration of secular frameworks into Islamic counseling. They discuss how Western psychotherapy, rooted in secular worldviews, often misrepresents Islamic theology and harms the Muslim psyche by reducing human suffering to biological or cognitive issues. The conversation highlights the need to build a psychology grounded in Quranic ontology and epistemology, arguing that current "Islamic" therapists often superficially apply secular methods like CBT without…
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