ملخص الجهاز:
After fifty years of social work practice in these countries, however, we find that this model has largely failed due to its exclusion of religious values and spiritual aspects.
During the last decade, western professionals realized that the inefficacy of social work practice was due to its avoidance of spiritual and religious aspects in theory and methodology.
As such, the Islamic reorientation of both the social sciences and professions will be necessary during the process of establishing models for sciences based on scientific methodology with regard to revelation as a source of knowledge.
The research problem deals with how to reorient social work practice from an Islamic viewpoint.
To achieve this, the Islamic views on five main aspects must be considered: human nature; divine laws governing individual behavior and social organization; causes of individual and social problems; social welfare systems; and practice theory.