ECO-PSYCHO-SUNNAH: BRIDGING CLASSICAL HADITH COMMENTARY AND CONTEMPORARY ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN THE READING OF HUMAN–NATURE RELATIONS
Keywords:
Connectedness to nature; Eco-Psycho-Sunnah; ecological ḥadīṡ; ecopsychology; ḥadīṡ commentary; maqāṣid al-ḥadīṡ
Abstract
The contemporary ecological crisis is increasingly understood not merely as physical degradation but as a crisis of relation and meaning with measurable psychological consequences. Scholarship on ecological ḥadīṡ has largely remained within juridical-normative or thematic-ethical registers, whereas ecopsychology has developed within a predominantly secular horizon; the two rarely meet. This article proposes and applies an integrative framework, termed Eco-Psycho-Sunnah, which reads the inner objective (al-maqṣid al-nafsī) embedded in classical ḥadīṡ commentary alongside contemporary ecopsychological constructs. Employing a qualitative library-based design and a three-step reading procedure of takhrīj, commentarial reading (qirā’ah sharḥiyyah), and complementary juxtaposition (muqābalah takāmuliyyah), the study analyses six ṣaḥīḥ ecological hadiths across four functional clusters, namely regenerative, conservational, protective, and relational. The results show that classical commentaries, although framed juridically, already encode orientations toward meaning, self-regulation, tranquillity, and compassion that converge with the constructs of meaning in life, self-regulation, restorative experience, and connectedness to nature. The study argues that ecopsychology is not an alien theory imposed upon the Sunnah but a contemporary vocabulary for an inner objective already latent within the commentarial tradition.
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Steger, M. F., & Frazier, P. (2005). Meaning in Life: One Link in the Chain from Religiousness to Well-Being. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52(4), 574–582.
Steger, M. F., Frazier, P., Oishi, S., & Kaler, M. (2006). The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53(1), 80–93.
Tongeren, R. D., DeWall, C. N., Green, J. D., Cairo, A. H., Davis, D. E., & Hook, J. N. (2018). Self-Regulation Facilitates Meaning in Life. Review of General Psychology, 22(1), 95–106.
Twohig-Bennett, C., & Jones, A. (2018). The health benefits of the great outdoors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes. Environmental Research, 166, 628–637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.06.030
Ulrich, R. S., Simons, R. F., Losito, B. D., Fiorito, E., Miles, M. A., & Zelson, M. (1991). Stress Recovery during Exposure to Natural and Urban Environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11(3), 201–230.
Wasman, W., Mesraini, M., & Suwendi, S. (2023). A Critical Approach to Prophetic Traditions: Contextual Criticism in Understanding Hadith. Al-Jami’ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 61(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2023.611.1-17
Wijaya, A., & Muzammil, S. (2021). Maqāṣidi Tafsir: Uncovering and Presenting Maqāṣid Ilāhī-Qur’anī in a Contemporary Context. Al-Jami’ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 59(2), 449–478. https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2021.592.449-478
Zakiyah, E. (2022). Maudhui’s Tafsir Method in the Qur’an and Hadith on Maqasid Syariah for Economic Welfare in Indonesia. Journal of Islamic Economics and Philanthropy, 5(4), 235. https://doi.org/10.21111/jiep.v5i4.8289
Published
2024-12-31
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., A. (2024). ECO-PSYCHO-SUNNAH: BRIDGING CLASSICAL HADITH COMMENTARY AND CONTEMPORARY ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN THE READING OF HUMAN–NATURE RELATIONS. Al-Munir: Jurnal Studi Ilmu Al-Qur’an Dan Tafsir, 6(2), 377 - 395. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24239/al-munir.v6i2.2381
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