The concept of age of puberty and religious development according to Ibn Qayyim AL-Jauziyah

Abstrak

The age of puberty is the initial age of adolescent maturity after the end of childhood. Each phase of development has its own developmental tasks as well as in the age of puberty. It is important to understand the age of puberty so that parents can prepare themselves in educating their children in that phase, because the age of puberty is a phase of anxiety and worry for children and parents. Many Muslim scientists talk about the age of puberty, but the term puberty does not exist in the concept of western scientists but they use the term teenager, therefore we will get a different concept of the concept of age of puberty between Islam and the West. This research only discusses the age of puberty from an Islamic perspective by referring to the opinion of Ibn Qayyim Al Jauziyyah in his book Tuhfatu al-Maudud bi Ahkami al-Maulud. The research method in this paper is literature (Library Research) with primary data from the book Tuhfatu al-Maudud bi Ahkami al-Maulud, Islamic and western psychology books, as well as relevant journals or articles. The results showed that there are different concepts from the fiqh point of view presented by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jauziyah in his book related to the age of puberty and he added several religious developmental tasks that must be done by children of puberty.