51. Allah's Scientific Miracles In The Quran: Hearts Find Peace In The Remembrance Of Allah

Belief in Allah is a powerful force that can lead to physical and mental health benefits. David B. Larson, of the American National Health Research Center, and his team compared devout and non-religious Americans and found that religious people suffer 60% less heart disease, 100% lower suicide rate, and far lower levels of high blood pressure than those with little or no religious belief. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine reported that those with no beliefs are twice as likely to suffer stomach-intestine diseases and their mortality rate from respiratory diseases is 66% higher than that of believers. Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical Faculty concluded that worship and belief in Allah have a more positive effect on human health than that observed in anything else and that no belief provides as much mental peace as belief in Allah. This is because people who believe in Allah, trust and pray to Him, are behaving in accordance with the purpose of their creation and philosophies that go against it always lead to unhappiness. Scientific research has confirmed that religious belief is correlated with overall mental health and happiness. Note 69. Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World, (California: Prima Publishing: 1997), 80-81. Note 70. Herbert Benson, and Mark Stark, Timeless Healing, (New York: Simon & Schuster: 1996), 203. Note 71. Ibid., 193. Note 72. Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World, 60-61.