Book Review: Chapter 1
Chapter One
Introduction to Psychology
For the chapter one, Dr Aisha
stated her purpose why she wrote this book. First, it is to describe some
detail the Islamic Perpective on psychology, mental health and well-being. Second, it is to present some of this
contemporary scientific evidence. And last but not least, the third is to
remind readers of the petential for self-transformation that Islam offers for
each human baing.
In her explanation about her
purpose, i noted one senteces that make me more motivated to study my master
degree. Dr. Aisha stated that actually, Islam doesn’t need to be proved. But,
in this day and age, when science has been given priority over relevation, it
is important to demonstrate the reality of our own discoveries. Well, she is
amazing.
In this first chapter, we can
learn what is the differences between Islamic and secular perspective. The basic
differences is coming from the object of study. Secular perpective just focus
on the seen world like genetics, behavioral, mental process, and social aspects
of a human being as an individual. But islam is not only see the seen world
like secular perpective, but also the unseen world who encompasses the soul of
a human being as an individual. So we can see that psychology in Islam is a
study of the soul.
Furthermore, the other
differences between islamic and secular perpective is coming from the sources
of knowledge. Secular perspective is based on the empirical experiences and
postivism theories. Which is means that secular perspective is just considerate
the seen things as the data of all their theories. in short, secular
perspective assume that human can do and analyse anything around them. Thats
why empirism and positivism is the major sources for them.
In contradiction, the islamic
perspective lies on revelation and the hadiths. The ayat that shows revelation
as a sources is 67;13-14, 50;16, and 2;2. Besides, revelation and hadits as a
sources encompasses two things; transmitted sources, which is means ayat and
hadiths, and also rational sources. Transmited sources can be rationaly
justified but independent from rational proof while the rational sources found
by reason and need rationaly justified.
In Islam, there is no separation
between the religious and secular, as is found in other systems. The sciences
must be treated as a trust should be assessed from the perspective of Islam. If
the sciences is correct, it will confirm what Allah swt had revealed to us. If,
for some reason, there is a conntradiction, this signifies that an error has
entered the scientific process or analysis.
In addttion, Dr. Aisha also explained the
weakness of the secular perspective. Its method and sources who just focus on
the physical world will effect to their limitation of observation. They believe
that values and beliefs are detemermined entirely by enviromental events, with
no room for global truths or moral standards. This theory exclude any notion of
freedom of choices or concious, moral decision-making.
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