Use of Quranotherapy among patients with Epilepsy

Millions of people worldwide live with epilepsy and need long-term medication. Recently, the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has increased in epilepsy. Approximately half of epilepsy patients use at least one CAM. Mind-body medicine incorporates a practices that take advantage of the interactions among the mind, brain, body, and behavior to affect body functions. Mind-body practices use the mind to affect physical functioning and promote health. Mind-body medicine such as meditation, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, music, yoga, etc., is one of the most common used of CAMs for treatment of epilepsy. The Quran is the instructor, true wisdom, guide, and leader of the world of humanity; it is both a book of wisdom and law, a book of prayer and worship, a book of command and summons, and a book of invocation and Divine knowledge – it is a book for all spiritual needs; and it is a sacred library offering books appropriate to the ways of all the saints and veracious, the purified and the scholars, whose ways and paths are all different1. The Quranotherapy (or Quranic therapy), a modality of transcendental meditation, involves reciting, reading and listening to the Quran to improve physical, social, mental, spiritual and/or religious health. Herein, we discussed use of the Quran as a cure and remedy in patients with epilepsy to emphasize that the Quranotherapy is a meditation modality.