Counseling from the Islamic Perspective

Abstract

This study is about counseling from the Islamic perspective, counseling itself is not new in contemporary Muslim society. The study is intended to discover the importance, concepts, techniques, methods, philosophy, objective and benefits of counseling, according to Islam. The research is conducted through library research. Besides that, authors also use secondary data like journals, articles, paper works, magazines and Internet. The result showed Islamic counseling is vital and give many benefits to society. The result also showed there are no significant differences between the Western and Islamic counseling as some of the theories are not contradicted with Shara', hence it is important to have Islamic counseling in effort to guide contemporary Muslim community.