For some US Muslims, raw talk on suicide, mental health

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A group of Muslim mental health professionals — along with some faith leaders and activists in the United States — are working to raise awareness about mental illness and suicide prevention and provide religiously and culturally sensitive guidance.

Suicide is a complex and delicate topic that Awaad, as director of the Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab at Stanford University, knows much about — but one she says isn’t discussed nearly enough in U.S. Muslim communities. When it is, she said, it’s often poorly understood and shrouded in misconceptions.

“The initial reaction of the community was total shock,” said Imam Abdul Rahman Bashir of the Islamic Association of Allen, where the family’s funeral was held. “Their reaction went from shock, grief to then concern about other families around them: Are they saying something that they can’t hear? Is something out there that they can’t see?”

“We don’t know the state of a person when they reach this point in their life, and we don’t know their mental state in that moment,” she said. ”... Only God can judge on this.” “People wouldn’t share what was happening because they were afraid of the stigma,” Ahmed said. “They were afraid people wouldn’t come to their loved one’s janazah,” or funeral.

“The crisis response is the hardest part,” she said. Many imams and religious leaders grapple with “striking a balance between healing the community and Islam’s stance on the impressibility of suicide.”

 

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So suicide bombers are just depressed Muslims?

Well the Muslims have written a book on how to be a suicide bomber so they do know a lot about talking people in to community suicide I don’t know if They know anything about teach them not to

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What is the position of Islam on suicide? What happens after death to a person who commits suicide, according to Islam?

Let’s all feel sorry for the Muslim community. People who chop others heads off. Now they are mental?

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