Background and Objective: The present study aims to demonstrate the role of the Quran in healing both spiritual and physical illnesses by examining its healing power from the perspectives of reason, Quranic verses, narrations, as well as empirical evidence and medical findings. The research primarily focuses on proving the possibility of the Quran’s healing for physical illnesses.Method: This study employs a descriptive-analytical approach, first examining the “healing verses” in the Quran and the viewpoints of commentators, and then discussing and analyzing narrations, empirical evidence, and medical findings regarding the Quran’s healing of physical illnesses.Results: The healing power of the Quran is demonstrable for both the soul and the body. However, this does not imply the abandonment of material means and medical treatments. Rather, for treating illnesses, one must utilize both apparent means and spiritual resources such as prayer and the Quran. Faith in God, divine teachings, and belief in the Quran’s healing power play a significant role. Therefore, miraculous physical healing is not a universal phenomenon easily accessible to all, though the Quran’s impact on providing comfort and alleviating pain is achievable for the general public.Conclusion: The primary mission of the Quran is to guide humanity and treat its ideological and moral ailments. However, the Quran’s healing of physical illnesses is also rationally possible and supported by certain Quranic verses, narrations, and the experiences of believers. Clinical medical studies have, in some cases, confirmed its effectiveness in providing comfort and pain relief.

Background: Physicians are stili encountering untreatable diseases or even severe complications of current therapeutic approaches, thus the present study was achieved on rats to determine the efficacy of a spiritual healing on joint inflammation.Materials and methods: Sixteen rats entered this experimental study. They were assigned randomly to either the red or yellow groups. Spiritual healing was achieved by an expert physician.Having our rats anesthetized, chronic inflammation was introduced in right knee. Then the physician was asked God for healing. This approach was assessed by means of determining the rats' knee local temperature on days 1, 3, 7 and 14 as well as their knee diameter. Two-factor ANOVA was used for data analysis.Results: Alterations of joints' temperature and diameter were statistically significant between the two groups (p<0.05). Weight gain was differed significantly (p<0.001). Conclusion: Spiritual healing is accompanied by better improvement in joints' inflammation and also rats' weight gain. Further controlled trials are strongly recommended.

Moral injury is a serious challenge in the field of mental health. This psychological harm arises when an individual encounters an act that contradicts their core values. The present article aims to deeply examine this phenomenon by exploring its psychological consequences through systematic review methods and analysis of Islamic sources. Findings indicate that moral injury originates from a profound conflict with an individual’s fundamental values. It is aligned with feelings of guilt and corresponds with the concept of major sin in Islamic sources. This conflict, along with efforts to conceal or protect it, leads to severe guilt and, eventually, to treatment-resistant psychological disorders. Research shows that spiritual therapeutic approaches have so far proven more effective in helping individuals recover from this type of trauma. It is anticipated that moral injury will soon be formally recognized as a fundamental psychological disorder. Damage to one’s values—often caused by the individual themselves—is not easily reparable, and only spiritual models can offer true relief from the torment of guilt. Although spiritual models based on mental constructs that are not measurable by real criteria may offer temporary relief, only genuine spirituality grounded in reliable revelatory and rational sources can provide true healing. In this regard, the God-centered spiritual therapy model and the adapted cognitive-behavioral therapy model with Islamic interventions (Koenig, 2025) are proposed as effective methods for managing and addressing this condition.

Background and Objectives: Spirituality is an individual’, s effort and searches for meaning and purpose in life. Spirituality includes the connection with religious beliefs and some of the chosen beliefs, values, and duties that give meaning to life to achieve the desired perfection. This study aimed to model the structural equations of the relationship between spirituality and psychological wellbeing mediated by spiritual health. Methods: This was a descriptive and correlational study, especially of cause-effect modeling. The statistical population included students of higher education centers in Sanandaj City, Iran, in 2018. Of them, 464 subjects were selected as the research sample by cluster random sampling approach. Measurement tools included researcher-made spirituality questionnaires (2020), Ryff’, s Scales of Psychological Well-Being (1980), and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1983). Results: Data analysis was performed using Cronbach’, s alpha coefficient, heuristic factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis by structural equation modeling. The results on the model of the relationship between spirituality, psychological well-being, and spiritual health indicated the acceptable desirability of the indicators of goodness of fit of the model (P≤, 0. 01). Other results suggested that higher levels of spirituality were associated with psychological wellbeing and spiritual health. Conclusion: The present research data revealed an overlap between spirituality, psychological well-being, and spiritual health. Spirituality positively affected psychological wellbeing and spiritual health concerning individual and social adjustment.

Background & Aim: Spiritual care is an important aspect of health care which has been considered during recent decades. Spiritual care should be considered as an important part of holistic care. Having competency is necessary for delivering good level of spiritual care to patients. The present study has been carried out in order to investigate the spiritual care competence in students at Ferdows Health and Paramedical School during 2014- 15.Materials & Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The study population included 240 students at Ferdows Health and Paramedical School. Finally, 190 students, who volunteered to participate in the study, were studied as the study samples. Data about students’ competency in spiritual care were collected, using Spiritual Care Competence Scale. Research data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.Results: The mean score of students’ spiritual care competency was 101.72 ± 12.69 which indicates that students have a high level of competencies in spiritual care. Independent t-test showed no significant relationship between the mean of spiritual care competency and other parameters such as gender (P=0.31), marital status (P=0.1), housing status (P=0.36), history of clinical practice (P=0.64). ANOVA test showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of spiritual care competency and different academic semesters (P=0.03).Conclusion: Reinforcing ethical and spiritual foundations of student's role models (such as professors), programming a unified plan, applying educational strategies, and making emotional educational atmosphere accompanied by trustee people will facilitate spiritual care.