ABSTRACT
Fulfill Christ's injunction in Matthew 25!Pastoral Care to Muslims: Building Bridges recognizes that more and more often pastoral care workers are encountering Muslims in hospitals. This is the guidebook you need to provide the spiritual support these patients are able to accept--support that doesn't conflict with their religious affiliations.The first section of Pastoral Care to Muslims provides an outline of the major beliefs of Islam, chiefly those that relate to illness and dying. The Koran is freely quoted to support these beliefs and practices. The second section of the book delivers a set of guidelines for the practice of pastoral care to hospitalized Muslims. These guidelines have been field tested with positive results. The book's two appendixes supply you with samples of the kinds of prayers that are acceptable to Muslims. In this valuable book you'll find:
- background information about the Muslim faith
- quotations from the Koran that you can use in your practice
- what you need to understand about the Muslim view of sickness, death, and dying
- the Islamic Creed
- Tawhid (the concept of the unity of God)
- Gehenna (Hell)
- the Five Pillars of Islam
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part |99 pages
Section I: The Muslim Mind
chapter |8 pages
Chapter 1 Why Muslims?
chapter |12 pages
Chapter 2 Muslims and God
chapter |10 pages
Chapter 3 Fear and Hope
chapter |11 pages
Chapter 4 Determinism and Free Will
chapter |9 pages
Chapter 5 Iblis, Angels, and Jinn
chapter |9 pages
Chapter 6 Death and the Grave
chapter |9 pages
Chapter 7 Awaiting the Hour of Doom
chapter |16 pages
Chapter 8 The Day of Resurrection
chapter |5 pages
Chapter 9 The Place of Prayer
chapter |3 pages
Chapter 10 Sunnis and Shi'as
part |25 pages
Section II: The Practice Of Care