Post-Global Crisis Spiritual Resilience of Muslim Families: Integrating Psychological Resilience Theory and Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah

Abstract

The mental health burden left by the COVID-19 pandemic did not end with the lifting of the global emergency declaration in 2023, and families now carry it amid overlapping global crises. This article aims to construct a resilience framework for Muslim families that adds a transcendental and normative dimension to psychological theories of family resilience. Using integrative-normative library research, it analyses 27 selected sources, from family resilience theory (Walsh, Bonanno, Masten) to Islamic legal thought on maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, through qualitative content analysis. The analysis yields the Islamic Spiritual Resilience Framework (ISRF), with tawḥīd at its core and three interacting dimensions: spiritual anchoring, in which tawakkul works as cognitive reframing; psycho-affective adaptation, in which ṣabr and raḥmah support emotion regulation; and protective action oriented by maqāṣid, especially ḥifẓ al-nafs and ḥifẓ al-dīn. Post-traumatic growth is read in Islamic terms as tazkiyah, a normative aim rather than a guaranteed outcome. The article concludes that ISRF offers a conceptual basis for integrative family counselling and religiously sensitive family policy, while its propositions still require empirical testing.