Building a Harmonious Family: Quraish Shihab's Interpretation of Surah Ar-Rum (30:21) and Its Normative Relevance to Contemporary Family Resilience
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This article examines M. Quraish Shihab's interpretation of Surah Ar-Rum (30:21) and its normative relevance to contemporary family resilience. It employs library research and a contextual tafsir analysis informed by socio-psychological concepts rather than empirical family-psychology research. The primary text is volume 11 of Tafsir Al-Mishbah, especially the commentary on Surah Ar-Rum (30:21), with Wahbah al-Zuḥaylī's Tafsir Al-Munir used as a bounded comparator. Twenty-one secondary works in the original corpus were re-screened for thematic relevance, traceable metadata, and analytical proximity; seventeen were retained, while primary and official legal-administrative materials were added. The coding matrix covered five categories: sakinah, mawaddah, raḥmah, relational mechanisms, and spiritual meaning-making. The findings show that Shihab presents sakinah as tranquillity compatible with relational dynamics, while mawaddah and raḥmah describe affective and compassionate qualities that sustain marriage. The distinction between khalaqa and jaʿala is treated cautiously: the proposition that affection must be cultivated is the authors' contextual synthesis, not a verbatim claim by Shihab. The phrase min anfusikum supports a shared human origin but does not, by itself, determine the legal distribution of marital rights and duties. Normatively, the interpretation resonates with Article 3 of Indonesia's Compilation of Islamic Law and may enrich existing premarital-guidance materials, although its practical effectiveness remains an empirical question.
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