This document provides an overview of suicide including definitions, types, causes, impacts, and prevention. It discusses how suicide is strictly forbidden in Islam based on Quranic verses and sayings of Muhammad. Common causes of suicide mentioned include poverty, unemployment, depression, abuse, and relationship or financial problems. The document outlines effects on surviving family members including grief, guilt, PTSD. It recommends training for healthcare providers, support systems, help lines, and addressing root causes like unemployment to prevent suicide. Statistics presented find lower suicide rates in several Muslim-majority countries and Pakistan compared to global averages, with males and unmarried individuals at higher risk.

1. Presented by: Asad Majeed
SUICIDE

2. CONTENT
 Introduction
 Types
 Suicide in Islam
 Causes
 Impacts on family & friends
 Effects on suicide survivors
 Remedies & Preventions
 Statistical rate
 Conclusion

3. Suicide is applied to every case of death
which results directly or indirectly from a
positive or negative act, carried out by the
victim himself, knowing that it will produce
this result.
Durkheim's definition of suicide:
(1897)

5. Quranic verse of suicide:
“And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most
Merciful to you and anyone who does so, will be
pushed in fire. And it’s easy for Almighty Allah.’’
(4:29,4:30)
Suicide in Islam

6.  Sayings of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)
Narrated Abu Huraira : The Prophet said, "He who
commits suicide by throttling shall keep on
throttling himself in the Hell Fire (forever)
and he who commits suicide by stabbing
himself shall keep on stabbing himself in the
Hell-Fire."Sahih al-Bukhari, 2:23:446

7. • The Holy Quran refers it as “self-murder”
• Strictly forbidden and not permitted
in Islam and in other religions.

8. Poverty
Unemployment
Depression, hopelessness & loneliness
Sexual Abuse
 Unbearable problems (in trouble with law)
(Cont…)
Causes

9. Emotional pain (Failure in love,
examinations, marriage disputes, divorce,
childlessness)
Man as a breadwinner (Burdensome task)
Domestic violence
 Financial losses
Inferiority complex

10.  Effects of suicide on family and friends:
Feeling of lost
Anger, Grief
Confusion
Depression
Impacts

11. Shame, guilt, Fear, anger, depression
Feeling responsible for not preventing the
suicide
Feeling rejected or abandoned by their loved
ones
(cont…)
Effects on suicide survivors

12. Helplessness, self-blame
Post-traumatic stress disorder
 Grief (physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual)
Emotional shock

13. The Way Forward
Authorities should reduce the free access to
suicidal compounds and drugs.
Physicians of the primary health care should
be trained properly to deal with depressed
patients.
(Cont…)

14.  All hospitals should be equipped to handle
suicides.
 Family should listen to the victims, build
strength by encouraging the person and
minimize the conflicts.
 The media should act in a responsible way.
(Cont…)

15. Government and other concerned authorities
should create new infrastructures to overcome
unemployment.
Introduce help lines, medical centers,
community centers, talk groups, counselors to
help the victims of mental stress and suicide.
(Cont…)

16. Take well-balanced diet and 7-8
hours sleep
Discuss issues with trusted people
Take self-help by Holy Quran
NIMH preventions for victims

17. oOne study found the rates of suicide in seven Muslim-
majority countries (Iran, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria,
Jordan, Egypt) were lower as compared to Western
countries. Even in non-Muslim countries the rates of
suicide in Muslims is lower than non-Muslims.
Statistical rate

18. o Pakistan's suicide rate is below the worldwide
average. Global rate(in 2015, 6.1) per 100,000.
Suicides represent some 0.9% of all deaths.
Pakistan's death rate by W.B(7.28 per 1000 people)
in 2016 (the lowest rate in the 2006-2018 period). In
2015, the suicide rate in Pakistan was approximately
1.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, one seventh of
the global average.

19. o Pakistan Penal Code, with punitive laws imposed
for attempted suicide punishable by a fine of
Rs10,000 or imprisonment.
o The findings showed that males outnumber
females by a 2:1 rate and the majority of male
suicides tended to be unmarried.
(Khan, Murad Moosa; Reza, Hashim (2000). "The pattern of suicide in Pakistan". Crisis.)

20. o To determine rates we carried out an analysis of
suicide reports from six cities in Pakistan. Rates
vary from 0.43/100,000 in Peshawar to
2.86/100,000 in Rawalpindi. Rates for men are
higher than women; highest rates for men were
7.06/100,000 between the ages 20-40 years in
Larkana, Sindh province.

21. o The Nation (PIMS) last year 500 female suicide
cases (20 to 40 age)
o Research conducted in (AKMU) average number
of suicide is 7000-8000,whereas 70,000 to 150,000
people try to commit suicide in Pakistan.

22. CONCLUSION

23. THANKS

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