THE ISLAMIC CREED

HE BASIS OF ISLAMIC COUNSELIN

A GUIDELINE TO COUNSELORS
Norazlina Zakaria
Kolej Universiti Insaniah
Noor Shakirah Mat Akhir
Universiti Sains Malaysia

Islamic creed has been regarded

by most scholars as the root of
the religion as asserted by
Keshavarzi and Haque (2013).
Thus Islamic creed should also be
regarded as the fundamental
composition of Islamic
counseling.
Hence, this concept paper is
projected to review the principles

THE
DEFINITION
OF
Islamic creed in this article is
equivalent to the Arabic term alaqidah al-Islamiyyah.
Terminologically, the word aqidah
means the firm belief without any
wavering or doubt approaching it. It
is what a human have faith in, tied
his conscience, and took as his

THE DEFINITION OF
ISLAMIC COUNSELING
In Malaysia, the Establishment of
Roundtable Discussion on Islamic
Psychology and Counseling, Malaysia
(2013) provided the definition of
Islamic Counseling as the
interaction process in guiding one or
more clients to receive guidance in
the effort to obtain blessings from
Allah through the use of
psychological knowledge based on

 Islamic Counseling is a professional

method or art of psychological
advisory which is oriented by Islamic
faith and law in order to help clients
in thinking, making changes, or
taking actions voluntarily when
facing challenges or elevating their
quality of lives as the servants of
Allah, as part of their efforts to
search for Allahs blessings as well as
in obtaining happiness in the world
and the hereafter.

 to demonstrate the
relationship
between counseling
and Islamic creed,
and
to establish a
guideline for the
practitioners of
Islamic counseling
when consulting
with their clients in

correlating the discipline of conventional

counseling to the Islamic creed:
scrutinizing the aspects of conventional
counseling as suggested by Sipon & Wan
Sulaiman (2002),
outlining the Islamic creed that could be
instilled into theories, goals, functions and
principles of counseling.
suggest on the method to incorporate the
Islamic creed in the counseling process.
Inayats (2001) model of Islamic counseling is

This review revealed that there is

a strong relationship between
counseling and Islamic creed
The associating aspects
are summarized in Table
1.

There are six aspects of Islamic creed

associated to counseling that should
be observed by the Islamic counseling
practitioners.

(1)belief in the existence of

God and the six pillars of Imn,

(2) belief in the Divine Decree

As determining factor in humans
behaviors,
(3) belief in Holy Prophet
Muhammad as the role model in

(4) belief in the

existence of
humans
spiritual
elements,
(4) the Islamic
doctrine of true
happiness,

rh (soul), qalb
(heart), nafs
(self), and aql
(intellect)
firah(inner
potential)

problem is
test from
Allah
(6)

conflict
with
firah

the
Islamic belief
in the root
causes of
problems
and their
solutions
failure
to
submit
to will

a type of
kaffrah
(atonement
of sins) or a
test of
faith

Foundations of the
Islamic creed that
should be abided by
Islamic counseling
practitioners could
be referred in
Table 2.

 the Islamic creed should form

the basis of Islamic counseling practiced
by Muslim counselors who are counseling
Muslim clients.
it could also be the guideline to multicultural
counselors.
For further research, it is suggested that
assessment on the effectiveness of counseling
models that integrate Islamic creed in its
processes to be carried out.

THANK YOU