The Effect of Prophetic Economics Teachings on the Mental Health of Society

Mental health means a sense of happiness and well-being, people with a high sense of well-being mainly experience positive emotions and will have a positive evaluation of the events around them. Otherwise, people will evaluate life events and situations as unfavorable and will face more negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, etc. Mental health can affect the social, cultural, economic, and political development of a society; because the mental health of individuals and society contributes to a healthy life in such a way that it can be said: the lack of mental health in a society can significantly reduce the ability of people to carry out daily life and provide grounds for increasing social damage and the emergence of risky behaviors. From the point of view of psychologists, mental health has ۶ components: autonomy, personal growth, having positive relationships with others, purposeful life, and mastering the environment and self-acceptance, and from the perspective of sociologists, social vitality, social cohesion, social prosperity, social participation, and social acceptance can be considered as components of social health and increasing mental health. If the components of the Islamic economy as prophetic teachings were implemented in societies, it would have effects and consequences that correspond to the same components of mental health of the society. For example, Qarz al-Hasna, Ja’ala (Consideration), Nefi Riba (Usury), Hibah (Gift), Sadaqah, Khums, Zakat, Zakat al-Fitr, etc. are among the components that create the spirit of cooperation, love, and empathy, a sense of peace, self-esteem, openness in life and vitality in the people of society that its example can be seen at the beginning of Islam. Also, components such as Muzara’a (contract of farm letting), Mosaqat (Sharecropping), and Mudarabah (Profit and Loss Sharing) create the spirit of cooperation and balanced social participation and the health of business and commercial exchanges. Because when people cooperate in the profits and losses of investment, economic balances will be available to them in all conditions, and it does not happen that in the absence of these balances, the scales of some people's lives are different from others.