EFFECTS OF INTUTIVE KNOWLEDGE DENIED BY RATIONAL INTELIGENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH / RASYONEL AKLIN İNKÂR ETTİĞİ SEZGİSEL BİLGİNİN RUH SAĞLIĞINA ETKİLERİ

Due to the increasing cases of suicides, researches on mental health problems have rised. In this way, just the fact that mental problems aren't only a mind problem has started to be seen. Agreed with this reality, lack of rational mind, only interpretation and source of information accepted by modernity, has been seen. It was understood that the vast spiritual aspects of the humanmind can not be considered with in the mind limitations. Highest rate of the suicide in the West as a representative of rational mind can be considered as an indication of this incomplete assessment. Islam agrees that knowledge can be achieved intuitively with heart enlightenment outside pure intellect. Therefore Islam which brings together knowledge and wisdom provide acceptable and applicable solutions to person on so many difficult problems with its thought and meaning maps. Sufism as a thinking and practising system functions a meaning center by helping the person to value him/herself, outer world and blessed in a correct way. Heart has different intellectual qualifications with inspiration and intution unlike the mind's sensetional narrowness. In Quran heart's ability to think is not delimited with mental functions. Heart's ability to think which consist of faith, obedience to God, subject to the prophet, converting divine orders behavior between fear and hope is admitted a basic step for personal enlightment and getting action. In this manner personal realizations that is the fundemental efforts of sufism can be possible in case of real meaning process. In our study, we will discuss reasons of increasing mental health problems and how Islam tradition recommends solutions for these problems.