Analysis of Violent Act from the Islamic Spiritual Perspective

Abstract

Violent behavior or act can be understood as action which conform to the definition of violence and may occur in various platforms, be it in religion, domestic or household, media, sexual and others that there are a plethora of studies that had been conducted on violence where numerous definitions were presented therewith. This study is therefore aimed to highlight the definition of violence from the perspective of Islam as well as other established perspectives. This study is qualitative in nature and involves literary review for the purpose of data collection. These varying definitions are analyzed from the spiritual Islamic perspectives. The findings of this study reveal that there are various aspects of violence itself with the spiritual imbalance in humans as the main contributing factor.