An Islamic Perspective on the Rights and Counselling of Muslim Women
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This paper titled Muslim women, counselling and rights an Islamic overview discussed the counselling of Muslim women and their rights in regards to the person counselling the women. Counsellor offers services for the wellbeing of individual irrespective of gender. The paper examines Conventional and Islamic perspective of counselling in relation to women and some of their rights. The paper identifies that both conventional and Islamic perspective did not differ in addressing women’s challenges. However, the two perspectives differ in approaches, techniques and skills, and application. The paper also highlights some of the rights of Muslim women in terms of counselling which is not found in the western notion of counselling of women. Also discussed are the approaches to counselling women particularly the Muslim women. The study adopted qualitative research method where secondary sources of data were utilised and analysis as its methods of analysis. It is concluded that both perspective is found to be effective and therefore it is recommended that counsellors should be familiar with both.
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