Spiritual Health Considerations in the Corona Crisis

The communicable and highly contagious pandemic caused by the coronavirus, has caused spirituality to increase in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In this study Islamic literature such as the Holy Quran, hadiths and articles were used to explain the increase of "spiritual health" during the Corona crisis.

Although during the Corona crisis, closure of religious centers was one of the most important concerns of the experts in spiritual health, we observed  a considerable increase in spiritual health. Patience, trust in God, and hope for divine kindness, as well as faith are the most important issues promoting spiritual health in the society.Patients: The feeling of imminent death is one of the most important issues promoting spiritual health. Patients' relatives often pray more than before and request "health and well-being from God."Therapists often show characteristics of self-sacrifice in caring for patients, and this has been shown to have a long lasting effect on members of the health system, elevating their rank in society.The invoking of the community to instigate and implement the recommendations of the healthcare officials by the Supreme Leader of Iran played an important role in motivation of the caregivers as well as promotion of the healthcare system.

The coordinated actions and the relentless efforts and endeavors of the various groups of the people involved in the Corona crisis, underscored the enormous capacity of the Islamic Republic to act as an ethical paradigm that can be a model for implementing the role of the Supreme Leader throughout the world.