Necessity of Islamic Management in the Application of Disaster’s Administering: A Preliminary Overview

This paper is discussing and reviewing the necessity of Islamic management in the application of disaster’s administering. Management system applied onto Muslim is supposedly been handled by Islamic management, especially in Malaysia which indicating the highest victims in this county is Muslim. The present applied management is unable to cope the arising problem of disasters. Hence, the additional problems, such as the incongruity towards the existent of disaster management system. Thus, it is a necessity for a new management system to be proposed in order to satisfy the need of Muslims. There are twofold of research questions identified in this research; What is the best management concept that should be applied in Malaysia? Does the Islamic management concept should be the primary source of disaster management system for Muslim community? Two main objectives have been determined in answering the aforementioned questions. First, identify the management concept in Islam, and second, analyzing the requirement in applying Islamic management in handling the matter of disasters’ events. This research is considered as a qualitative-exploratory research. Then, in collecting the data, method of library research has been elected. Then, the obtained has data been analyzed via the approach of content analysis. Findings have shown that the Islamic way of handling the disasters has to be based on the Islamic concept of management itself. Disasters’ management system of handling the matters related to Islam and Muslim supposedly supported by the Islamic scholarship. Hence, it is a dire necessity and responsibility on the shoulder of authoritative party in applying disaster’s management system based on Islamic approach itself.