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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Main Authors: Rahimah, Embong, Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad, Sakinah, Salleh, Zuraidah, Kamaruddin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling my-unisza-ir.4932020-11-24T08:17:53Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/493/ Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview Rahimah, Embong Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad Sakinah, Salleh Zuraidah, Kamaruddin BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc BV1460 Religious Education 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. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/493/1/FH03-INSPIRE-16-06212.pdf Rahimah, Embong and Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad and Sakinah, Salleh and Zuraidah, Kamaruddin (2015) Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview. In: International Conference on Empowering Islamic Civilization in the 21st Century, 6 - 7 September 2015, UNISZA.
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topic BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
BV1460 Religious Education
spellingShingle BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
BV1460 Religious Education
Rahimah, Embong
Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad
Sakinah, Salleh
Zuraidah, Kamaruddin
Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Rahimah, Embong
Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad
Sakinah, Salleh
Zuraidah, Kamaruddin
author_facet Rahimah, Embong
Normila, Noruddin@Che Ahmad
Sakinah, Salleh
Zuraidah, Kamaruddin
author_sort Rahimah, Embong
title Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
title_short Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
title_full Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
title_fullStr Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
title_full_unstemmed Spiritual Coping Strategies From The Islamic Worlview
title_sort spiritual coping strategies from the islamic worlview
publishDate 2015
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