Hmm... Psychology with Islam? I was looking for some answers from the net to my last psycho online quiz. Actually ade buku, tapi malas nak masuk bilik amek haha. Oh anyway, came across this link from google search and it attracted my attention...

Humanistic Psychology & Islam: Partners in Prison Reform
Sayid Muhammad-Muhsin Jalali-Tehrani, Ph.D.
Founder, Islamic Association for Humanistic Psychology
Mashhad Security and Corrections Facility
Counseling and Mental Health Center


Freeing the Prisoner

The person who commits a crime is out of touch with himself, in a state of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal conflict.

Being in touch with the transpersonal helps the individual tap into a wealth of wisdom and guidance and achieve natural health and harmony.

Corrections facilities owe it to the community to do more than detain or penalize prisoners until their release.

The well-functioning corrections facility prepares the individual to return to live in harmony within the community.



Laying the Groundwork

The human being does not exist separately from the environment.

The prison that rehabilitates inmates is the one whose environment is therapeutic.

Personnel were carefully chosen for their ability to show positive regard and respect to the inmates.

Prison security and management staff are an integral part of the environment and need support also.

The milieu must free all aspects of the total human being, physical, economic, social, cognitive, psychological, and open the way to the spiritual.

SPIRITUAL integration coordinates the whole person.

Integration implies the coordination of an entire system around one goal. Worship is precisely this: an orientation toward an all-inclusive goal.

Religious values impart a sense of meaning and direction in life. A religious perspective strings a thread of meaning and purpose through the fragmentary and paradoxical elements of life.

Only a genuine religious orientation yields positive effects upon the personality. A genuine religious orientation is lived, never used; it is adopted by inner choice, not outer inducement.

Prayer, devotion, meditation, and discussions are valuable parts of each day. They form genuine links to the transpersonal.

Read more here =)

The site also has this link about Tasawwuf & Sufism. I keep hearing about these but I have no idea what it is! Kat usrah dengar. Kat madrasah pon dengar... But I dunno whether this site can be trusted or not. Maklumlah.. Zaman technology ni sesape pon boleh post. Ustaz yang ngah ajar me Sejarah & Tamadun Islam kat Andalus ni je ade ENAM website... So ya, sesape yang tahu bolehlah terangkan ape yang betul dan ape yang salah ye?