Saturday, 11 June 2011


             Psychology has long been growing as science in the world. Since first introduced by Wilhelm Wundt, psychology has grown rapidly. After Wundt opened his psychology lab many students from America migrated to Germany to study psychology under the guidance of Wundt. Psychology books have been more and more.
Increasing streams in psychology shows  the complexity of the psychology of looking at the behavior of  its main objects as a picture of mental processes.              Psychology is not only attractive to western students, but also for Muslim  students. Many Muslim studied psychology later. Muslim students found some weaknesses that are owned by the psychologist who developed in the west culture and under western philosophical system. One of the most significant drawback is the western psychology is not able to touch the spiritual aspect of man. Supposedly, the etymologi psychology means the study of the soul, but the psychological aspect is not able to touch the human psyche. Interpret the concept of human weakness by western psychologists this is the major turning point in the rise of Islamic students to re-take basis of the Qur'an and hadith as the main reference in developing the science of psychology.            When viewed in terms of history, the development of science Muslims stopped after the collapse of the Abbasiya. The destruction of Baghdad as the crown of Islamic civilization has impacted the decline in science among Muslims. Science is subsequently moved into the hands of the west. Such works in the field of medicine that should be continued by the Muslims were forced to stop developing among Muslims due to colonization. So it is with psychology. Although not traditionally called psychology, but the works of  Muslim scholars at that time had been colored with a variety of writings that discussed the psychological stuff. Call it the Ibn Sina and Al-Gazali who has described many things about human concepts.            Currently there are no longer good for anything dissolved in the euphoria of the past glory of Islam. What's more sorry that the science of psychology was not developed by the Muslims and link it to other sciences such as medical science developed by scientists western psychology. Suffice it to boosters for Muslim students to study and develop the science of psychology that has been lost many centuries ago. The best way to develop a psychology is based it on revelation. Logic is a tool used to understand the revelation. Phenomena related to humans should be returned to the verses of al-quran and hadith, then further developed by integrating with modern psychology. Psychology that is now developing a tool and revelation is ideology. Thus Muslims have strong opinions about the basic psychology. They will be psychologists who deliver the verses of Allah.

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