Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
This article aims at examining some spiritual or religious coping strategies from the Islamic point of view. It is a matter of fact that religion plays a significant role for an individual in facing complexities and challenges of life. Spiritual or religious coping strategies have been identified...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/493/1/FH03-INSPIRE-16-06212.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/493/ |
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| Summary: | This article aims at examining some spiritual or religious coping strategies from the Islamic
point of view. It is a matter of fact that religion plays a significant role for an individual in
facing complexities and challenges of life. Spiritual or religious coping strategies have been
identified as a contributing factor which could affect individual behaviour, and subsequently
will affect the communal behaviour. The novel aspect of this article is that apart from drawing
theoretical conclusion from the existing work of counseling, is to integrate the Islamic
principle pertaining to counseling in a way to address obvious inadequacies in the existing
counseling services offered to the Muslims. Therefore, it is appropriate to unearth the
influence of religion and religious communities, in this case Islam and Muslims, while they
are coping with the challenges and problems. This article provides an overview of related
literature covering the wide range of issues pertaining to the Islamic perspective on the
problems and coping strategies in general. There are many integrative methods and means
that could be derived from the Islamic authentic sources namely the Holy Book (al-Quran),
the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) (al-Sunnah) and the Islamic heritage (althurath) as well as the modern methods. From review of the literature, the Islamic coping
strategies are categorized into two components. The first is the internal one which consists of
acquiring knowledge, spiritual-based experience and faith. The second is the external which
comprises social, professional and institutional support. In sum, the collaborative religious
coping strategies balance an individual’s own efforts in managing stress by seeking help and
support from other people. |
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