Spirituality is one of the essential aspects of one’s life. It offers a broader perspective towards a meaningful life while undergoing trials such as caring for children with cancers. Cancer caregivers commonly experience physical, emotional, social, and spiritual challenges. Spiritual issues such as lost hope and associating negative meanings with cancer prognosis may reduce the caregiver’s quality of life. However, this caregiving burden can be a great source of post-traumatic growth. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore spiritual change, a significant domain in post-traumatic growth among 24 caregivers of children with cancer at one of the teaching hospitals in Kuala Lumpur. Following in-depth interviews, the result of the thematic analysis demonstrated two themes; main religious and mindfulness practices, a significant caregiver’s spiritual development. The majority of caregivers reported increasing spiritual awareness levels, feeling closer to God, and focused on religious practices as caregivers coping mechanisms and patients’ complementary therapy. Hence, spiritual concerns among families of children with cancer need to be addressed during cancer treatment. This study suggests the development of an appropriate quick reference on spiritual aspects for caregivers which would be useful during the cancer trajectory and improve the whole family’s quality of life.

Makki merupakan salah seorang tokoh ilmuan Islam yang terkenal khususnya dalam ilmu tasawuf. Ketokohan beliau dalam bidang tersebut telah diakui oleh ramai sarjana dan tokoh Islam antaranya ialah Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. Ini dapat dibuktikan dengan hasil penulisan yang beliau tinggalkan iaitu karya Qut al-Qulub merupakan karya agung dalam bidang tasawuf yang menjadi rujukan utama dalam bidang ini. Karya tersebut banyak menonjolkan elemen-elemen spiritual dan pengalaman kerohanian dalam usaha pembangunan rohani yang dilakarkan secara teratur serta sistematik antaranya ialah perbahasan mengenai konsep maqamat. Secara umumnya maqamat ialah suatu kedudukan atau tingkatan spiritual yang memerlukan usaha untuk mencapai dan berpindah dari satu maqam ke maqam yang lebih tinggi dalam perjalanan kerohanian seorang salik. Kesungguhan dan usaha ini, sebenarnya mengandungi nilai-nilai spiritual yang tinggi dan didapati mampu untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah yang berkaitan Kata kunci: Abu Talib al-Makki; Qut al-Qulub; maqamat; pembangunan psikologi.

The increase in the percentage of drug addiction every year is of great concern to society and the country. However, there is no denying that various parties such as government agencies, non-governmental organizations, private agencies and even individuals, each have played various roles in helping the government deal with this drug addiction problem. Academics, psychologists, counsellors and Islamic psychospiritual therapists are among those who contributed to this issue from theoretical and contextual aspects, including in the development of scale-based assessment instruments to drug addicts. Past studies explained that there is a close link between spiritual aridity and drug addiction. Recognizing the spiritual need to address drug addiction, this article discusses the Islamic Psychospiritual Scale (ZATIP) instrument for drug addicts to help researchers measure the addicts’ spiritual level and condition. This instrument is developed through a phase of validity and reliability employing two methods, first, expert verification using interview method and thematic qualitative analysis; and method of questionnaire on Content Validity Index (CVI) and statistical analysis. The second method involved a pilot test of the instrument on 25 drug addicts and applying statistical analysis. The results of the study found that the Islamic Psychospiritual Scale (ZATIP) instrument has a high value of validity and reliability and is suitable for use in assessing the spiritual level of individuals, especially drug addicts.

KhulasahPsikologi dan konsep jiwa merupakan salah satu tema perbahasan dalam kalangan ahli falsafah terdahulu. Tema ini turut dikupas oleh ahli falsafah Muslim seperti al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, al-Razi dan lain-lain. Selain perbahasan yang mendalam berkenaan hakikat dan tabiat jiwa dari sudut fizikal dan spiritual, potensi jiwa juga merupakan perbahasan yang ditekankan oleh mereka. Ini kerana menurut Islam, setiap manusia perlu mengetahui potensi yang terdapat dalam dirinya agar mereka dapat memanfaatkannya dengan baik dalam menggalas tanggungjawab sebagai khalifah. Justeru, artikel ini akan mengetengahkan persoalan potensi jiwa menurut psikologis Muslim iaitu Ibn Sina dan al-Ghazali berdasarkan karya-karya mereka bagi melihat pandangan mereka berkaitan isu tersebut. Di antara perbincangan berkenaan potensi jiwa yang disoroti ialah potensi tumbuhan, hidupan dan insani. AbstractThe concepts of psychology and soul receive a heated debate among early Muslim philosophers. Al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and al-Razi were among the scholars that were engaged in the debate. Besides their discussion on the nature and inclination of the soul from the physical and spiritual view, the potential of the soul is also emphasized by them. From Islamic perspective, every human being needs to know the potential that exists in their soul so that they can utilize and take responsibility as a caliph in this world. Thus, this article highlights discussion on the potential of soul according to Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali based on their works. Among the issue highlighted on the potential of soul are the potential of plants, life and human.

Self-development is a lifelong process. The various negative influences and the abandonment of the psychospiritual aspect contribute to the volatile and declining motivation among the teenager, which later would obstruct their self-development process. Therefore, this research will propound solutions to the preceding issue by utilizing qualitative research design via content analysis. The finding indicates that the motivation intervention for the teenager’s self-development is complex and involves varying elements related to the informant self, spiritual, as well as social context. On that account, this research suggests a supplementary model of motivation that is more systematic and characterized with Islamic concept that corresponds with their psychological needs. Also, this model incorporates the fundamental element of Islamic psychospiritual such as akhlaq (virtue), the potential of al-ruh (soul), tazkiyah al-nafs (purification of the heart), and intention for the self-development of the teenager.