{"id":35178,"date":"2026-01-20T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=35178"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:42:22","slug":"are-bipolar-disorder-and-narcissism-treated-the-same-in-islamic-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/are-bipolar-disorder-and-narcissism-treated-the-same-in-islamic-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bipolar Disorder and Narcissism Treated the Same in Islamic Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 08700<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by: Alimah Aisha Qureshi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">I wanted to ask that bipolar disorder is a personality disorder and narcissism is also a personality disorder. Is it the same ruling follow for both? as the medicine use for both disorders are almost same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Bipolar disorder is a manic -depressive illness when a person has extreme mood changes, at its most severe, it can manifest into suicidal ideation and psychosis where they lose contact with reality, and delusions may occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">This disorder requires medical treatment, and spiritual healing can help whereas narcissistic disorder is a personality disorder it is when someone has arrogance self-centredness it requires psychotherapy and spiritual healing. Hence, they are not the same the ruling for bipolar disorder in its severest form is that of an insane person. The narcissistic disorder does not come under that ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>References<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Badai Al Sanai Volume 1 (pg 259)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0641\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u0644\u064e\u0645\u0652 \u064a\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0646\u0652 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0623\u064e\u0647\u0652\u0644\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0648\u064f\u062c\u064f\u0648\u0628\u0650 \u0643\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0635\u0651\u064e\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0651\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064e\u062c\u0652\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u0650 \u0641\u064e\u0635\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627\u0629\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0651\u064e\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0651\u0650 \u062a\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064f \u062a\u064e\u0637\u064e\u0648\u0651\u064f\u0639\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0635\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627\u0629\u064e \u0644\u0650\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064e\u062c\u0652\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u0650 \u0631\u064e\u0623\u0652\u0633\u064b\u0627\u060c<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Alimah Aisha Qureshi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 08700 &nbsp; &nbsp; Answered by: Alimah Aisha Qureshi &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; I wanted to ask that bipolar disorder is a personality disorder and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40240,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions\/40240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}