Suicide in Muslim world and way forward

According to a survey published in 2020, 1.9 billion people follow Islam, accounting for around 24.9% of the global population. 1 The majority of Muslim nations are in Asia (one-third from South Asia) and Africa's LAMIC region. Furthermore, stigma, attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and intention about the use of formal mental health services impact mental health of Muslims. 4 While the lower rates of suicide can greatly be directly attributed to religion, indirect impacts of religion and other factors, less related to religion (such as social pressure, denser networks of family, peer, ethnic, and other social ties, smaller windows of opportunity for committing suicide in the multigenerational households), are also effective. According to Islam, humans are entrusted with the gift of life, so they are not permitted to make decisions about their own life and death without the approval of God as they do not have absolute possession of this gift.