What did the classical scholars say about sadness and depression?
The Prophets grieved. Yaʿqūb lost his sight from weeping for Yūsuf; the Prophet ﷺ wept for his son Ibrāhīm. The scholars refused to treat sadness as sin — but they also wrote carefully on what keeps it from crushing the soul.
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