Building mental resilience based on the Quran during pandemic

Membangun kecekalan mental berasaskan ajaran al-Quran semasa pandemik

Authors

  • Mintaraga Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia.
  • Istianah Istianah Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0200-1157

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53840/alirsyad.v7i1.219

Keywords:

Mental Resilience, Pandemic, The Quran, Tafsīr al-Mawḍū‘ī

Abstract

Covid-19 which spread globally has entered its second year. According to statistics released by Worldometers, as of June 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused 3,906,343 million deaths out of more than 180 million cases. The data shows that from 222 countries, Indonesia ranks in 18th place with 2,033,606 cases and 55,594 deaths. Since the pandemic had spread in various countries worldwide, it has caused mass uncertainty, confusion, and urgency, which continues until today. Covid-19 has increasingly affected various aspects of life, specifically the psychological aspect causing the rise of depression and acute anxiety that damages the community's mental health. Covid-19 has proved to be a stressor that tests human mental resilience in dealing with any problems arising from the crises facing them. This study aims to discover and study the verses of the Quran and its interpretations on the matters of plagues, disasters, and happenings related to such phenomena to identify the religious reasoning behind shaping human mental strength and resilience during this pandemic. This study applies a content analysis approach/method and uses the thematic interpretation method (Tafsīr al-Mawḍū‘ī). The results found that the Quran had shown examples of calamities in the form of plagues, God's promise on the certainty of problems, forms of problems, and human attitude towards said problems and calamities to conclude that the descriptions written in the Quran can be used to build human psychological readiness in any condition, especially during this pandemic.

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Author Biography

Mintaraga, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia.

Mintaraga Eman Surya was born in Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia, in 1976 and studied at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt in the field of Islamic and Arabic Studies, and received a master's degree in Religion and Cross-Culture Middle East Studies at Gajah Mada University Yogyakarta which research universal body languages in the daily communication among the Egyptian. He has researched the Arabic Language, the interpretation and translation of the Quran, and Islamic thought. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto in Central Java, Indonesia. He has completed his doctorate in the Arabic Language Education Program at the State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, East Java, Indonesia. Previously served as chairman of the Institute for Islamic studies and Implementation at the University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia and now as chairman of the Indonesian Ulama Council, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.

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2022-06-22

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Eman Surya, M., & Istianah, I. (2022). Building mental resilience based on the Quran during pandemic : Membangun kecekalan mental berasaskan ajaran al-Quran semasa pandemik. Al-Irsyad: Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues, 7(1), 843-850. https://doi.org/10.53840/alirsyad.v7i1.219

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022): al-Irsyad: Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues

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