Meaning of Islamic counseling; Basics, Concepts and Principles

Religious counseling is that comes from the concepts and propositions of religion. That  is considered by psychologists and counselors. Islam is a comprehensive religion with many followers. It has different doctrines about social, human and health concepts, but there are not clear definitions of Islamic counseling, its' models and patterns. Present study seeks to define the Islamic counseling with use of review study and descriptive-analytical method. Sources of study were internal and external scholarship over the last thirty years about counseling and sources of Islamic religion include Quran and ahadith. Present research seeks to answer the four areas; Basics of the Islamic Counseling, psychological aspects of human in Islam, stages of Islamic counseling and principles of Islamic counseling. The findings of this study showed that Islamic counseling is distinguished from conventional counseling and psychotherapy in three directions. 1- Ontology, Anthropology, and Epistemology. 2- In goals and 3- In methods of counseling. Also, Islamic counseling was defined with use of foundations, concepts and principles of counseling in Islam. The results of this study can clarify preconditions of Islamic counseling and pave the way for the modeling of Islamic counseling in future.