Counseling in Islamic education aims to help students gain an understanding of themselves and be able to solve the problems they face. For teachers in Islamic educational institutions, this goal requires them to first understand human nature in Islam to be able to carry out comprehensive counseling for students. This article was written to describe human nature and its implications for Islamic educational counseling activities today. This research was prepared using a qualitative approach with the type of literature study. The results of the research show that there are three terms used in the Qur'an to refer to humans, namely: al-insân (humans who have needs and have potential that can be developed), al-basyar (physical humans who look bea...