Bismillahi Rahman iraheem Assalaamualaikum wr wb.. It is not a bad book. I think it perhaps is one of the first kinds of books I became aware of 10 years ago, that tried to tackle the issues of 'sadness' and if you like depression, anxiety, fear and other things that just, wasn't really being looked at. But, I gravitated away from that book. But to be honest with you, personally, I only read about 5 pages of it - dipping in and out of it, on different occasions. And I think that, being the debatey type of person that I am, did not feel it help me as much as other books I shall suggest. I know that I did give this that 'dont be sad' book to a friend - she said she found it helpful. These books, I found tremendously helpful: 'Purification of the heart; signs, symptoms, and cures of spiritual diseases of the heart' - Translation and commentary of Imam Al-Mawlud's matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf (unfortunately i believe this book is now out of publication - someone told me however that someone had made it available a scanned pdf document somewhere???) - follows an audio/lecture series by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (front cover see here, should be only 10 pounds, but there are no more available, so people seem to be selling it for expensive prices. So I wouldn't get it for that price. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Purification...0869194&sr=1-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ges5k0LTjI ) And this one really helped - very beautiful duas in here - and really will help alleviate sadness and mental health illness I feel, if stuck to. eg anxiety, depression, fear 'Al-Ghazali invocations and supplications. Kitab al-adhkar wa'l da'awat. Book IX of the revival of the religious sciences. Ihya'ulum al-din. translated with an introduction and notes by K Nakamyra 3rd ed with arabic text' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Ghazali-I...869373&sr=8-13 that one they have in stock. and hopefully affordable. I hope this okay. May God forgive me for any wrong. May God bless everyone for their good intentions, and for the efforts of the author of the don't be sad book All Good is from Him. Ws '