Individual Resilience From a Religious Perspective: A Systemic Approach

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Islam is a lifestyle consistent with world realities that guide humans through difficulties in life. Resilience has been highly recommended in religious doctrine, yet has been less explored within a comprehensive scientific model from a religious perspective. This study proposes a structure and conceptual model of resilience at the individual level based on a religious perspective. Methods: The present study was a literature review based on Islamic literature within a dynamic graphical model of a system. Firstly, by a detailed study of the theoretical literature of research and analysis of researchers’ studies in the field of resilience with a religious viewpoint, a conceptual model was designed using a system dynamic approach. Secondly, based on the conceptual model and dynamic assumptions made from the action reactions between the factors involved in the resilience system, the modeling was performed as drawing causal diagrams for resilience and its subsets using the Vensim software, version 7.3. Results: The four components of individual resilience, including belief in the wisdom and will of God, trust in God, piety, and patience as the sub-systems were all interacting with each other within a relatively complex dynamic system. Conclusion: From an Islamic perspective, for individual resilience reinforcement, it is necessary to pay serious attention to creating and strengthening the resilience subsystems in the individual.

Keywords

• systems analysis
• resilience
• psychology
• religion
• individuality