Quran and Quranic teachings
enayat sharifi; Hossein Sharifi
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Self-awareness is one of the key issues in life that every individual must possess for progress and advancement in their lives. It is highlighted in the Quran with terms such as insight and self-forgetfulness, and it is based on theological, ontological, and anthropological foundations. Each of these ...
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Self-awareness is one of the key issues in life that every individual must possess for progress and advancement in their lives. It is highlighted in the Quran with terms such as insight and self-forgetfulness, and it is based on theological, ontological, and anthropological foundations. Each of these foundations has educational effects. The present study discusses the anthropological foundations of self-awareness in dimensions such as insight, orientation, and values, and aims to address the following questions:
What are the cognitive foundations of self-awareness in the Quran, and what are their educational functions?
What are the orientation foundations of self-awareness in the Quran, and what are their educational functions?
What are the values foundations of self-awareness in the Quran, and what are their educational functions?
Background
Regarding the significant importance of this research, numerous activities have been carried out in the field of psychology with a religious approach, such as the book "Comparative Self-Awareness from the Perspective of Islam and Psychology" by Fatemeh Esfandiari, the book "Self-Awareness" by Samad Shah Mohammadi, the book "Self-Awareness and Self-Management" by Masoud Noorali Zadeh, the book "From Self-Awareness to Self-Knowledge" by Shahrbano Ghahhari, and articles like "The Relationship between Self-Awareness and God-Awareness" by Noorali Zadeh Miyaneji, Bashiri, and Jan Bozorgi in the Psychology and Religion Journal, no.19, article on the effectiveness of teaching self-awareness from the perspective of Islamic teachings on reducing students' psychological pressure by Amir Hossein Mousavi in the Psychology Studies Journal, no. 30, article on self-awareness and its educational functions in improving human social relationships in the Quran and Hadith by Fatemeh Saifali'i in issue 2 of volume 2 of the Journal of Educational Teachings in the Quran and Hadith, and others. However, no work has yet delved into the Quranic foundations that provide a fundamental and root-based look at this issue and its educational effects. It seems that this article may be the first work to address this topic.
Methodology
In this research, a descriptive-analytical method has been used to evaluate and analyze the main concepts including various dimensions of cognitive human foundations, self-awareness, and their educational effects in detail. This analytical method allows us to delve into a better understanding of the cognitive human foundations in dimensions such as attitude, orientation, values, self-awareness, and their educational effects from the perspective of the Holy Quran.
General Research Findings
Cognitive human foundations of self-awareness in the Quran are divided into attitude, orientation, and values foundations.
The dual existence of human from body and soul, human's free will, and purposefulness are among the most important attitude foundations that significantly impact the fulfilling self-awareness and have educational effects such as attention to physical and spiritual dimensions, assisting human in the path of perfection, and enhancing human resilience, patience, and self-esteem. Purposefulness is directly related to self-awareness because without self-awareness, achieving one's goals and ultimate purpose is not possible, and without consideration of the hearafter, reaching the final goal is not achievable.
Human nature and pure temperament, awareness of capacities, abilities, and shortcomings are among the most vital orientation cognitive human foundations that have a significant impact on the realization of self-awareness and have educational functions such as awareness of capacities, talents, and shortcomings as the starting point of self-awareness, recognizing capacities and shortcomings leading to strengthening confidence, increasing self-belief, and self-awareness.
Human dignity, caliphate, and vicegerency of God are among the crucial values-based cognitive human foundations, each of which has a direct relationship with self-awareness and results in feelings of worthiness, self-esteem, and social status in society.
Final Conclusion
Cognitive human foundations of self-awareness in the Quran are divided into attitude, orientation, and values foundations, each of which has educational effects.
enayat sharifi; seyed majid ghasemi petroodi; yyrtggf uyttfgdvc; hesamedin khalatbari
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One of the duties of a religious government is to ensure the intellectual, spiritual and psychological security of the people in a society. This research aims to investigate the methods of a religious government in preventing cultural damage using a descriptiveanalytical method; the main ...
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One of the duties of a religious government is to ensure the intellectual, spiritual and psychological security of the people in a society. This research aims to investigate the methods of a religious government in preventing cultural damage using a descriptiveanalytical method; the main question which is to be answered is as follows: What are the epistemological strategies of a religious government in preventing cultural damages? In a general division, cultural strategies could be divided into practical (behavioral) strategies and epistemological strategies. Epistemological strategies are further divided based on perspective, tendency, and action. Belief in monotheism, prophethood, imamate and resurrection are among themost important perspective-based epistemological strategies that play a fundamental role in preventing and removing cultural damage, and the religious government is obliged to try to strengthen these beliefs. Raising people's awareness, promoting the culture of seeking justice and rejecting tyranny, presenting religious teachings in an easy and simple way, and promoting religious teachings based on freedom are among the tendency-based epistemological strategies. And confronting harmful ideas such as heresy, eclecticism and skepticism, superstition and blind imitation of foreign culture is among the actionbased strategies of a religious government in preventing and removing cultural damages.
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Abstract Self-awareness has ontological, and anthropological foundations. The main ontological foundations of the Quran are categorized in two groups: the foundations of abstract and material entities. The most important abstract foundations are monotheism and believing in God, the existence of invisible ...
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Abstract Self-awareness has ontological, and anthropological foundations. The main ontological foundations of the Quran are categorized in two groups: the foundations of abstract and material entities. The most important abstract foundations are monotheism and believing in God, the existence of invisible creatures, and the outcome, and the major material foundations are the creation of the universe, the creation of the universe for man and the purpose of universe. From the holy Quran’s perspective, each of these foundations affects self-awareness. The foundations of monotheism have a direct relationship with self-awareness. God regards remembering himself as the main cause of insight and self-awareness, and Allah sees His forgetfulness by the creatures as a reason for absent-mindedness and insufficient as well as difficult subsistence in the world and blindness in the hereafter. Knowing Angels and Satan helps human to understand the existence of the abstract beings and find out his abstract qualities by observing the influence of these creatures in human life. In this way, human beings can develop balanced self-awareness in their material and spiritual capacities. Also, faith in the Resurrection Day and friendship are directly related to self-awareness, which plays a major role in the awakening of the human and leads to pure actions, avoidance of hypocrisy and ostentation. And the material foundations raise human awareness of his power in understanding the world and, yet of his inability to understand his incompetence to creator and creation.
enayat sharifi
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Abstract The Sexual behavior before marriage is one of the most important sexual behavior taken into consideration by different religions and school of thoughts. This article, using a descriptive-analytical research method, aimed at investigating the dos and don’ts of the sexual behavior in the ...
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Abstract The Sexual behavior before marriage is one of the most important sexual behavior taken into consideration by different religions and school of thoughts. This article, using a descriptive-analytical research method, aimed at investigating the dos and don’ts of the sexual behavior in the holy Quran, the Old Testament, and the New Testament and discussing their different and similar viewpoints on the issue at hand. All these three books emphasized the chastity and continence, and also restraint from incontinence and sexual relationship before marriage. Also, all of them placed emphasis on avoiding homosexuality, masturbation, lechery, wearing make-up among alien girls and boys. The main differences among these books is that there is no clear ban on homosexuality and no mention of masturbation in the Old Testament; however, in the Jewish religious laws some agree and some other disagree with the women’s masturbation. In addition, sodomy, masturbation, and mosaheghe (women’s masturbation) were not mentioned at all, but they have been completely banned in the Quran, and some harsh punishments were considered for the wrongdoers in both this world and the hereafter.
Enayatollah Sharifi; Seyed Hossein Jafari Nasab
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The present research which was entitled “The Quranic Methods to Institutionalize Morality in the Community” has been carried out using the library, descriptive, and analytic methods. One of the faith-development necessities in humankinds is identification of the type of the relationship they ...
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The present research which was entitled “The Quranic Methods to Institutionalize Morality in the Community” has been carried out using the library, descriptive, and analytic methods. One of the faith-development necessities in humankinds is identification of the type of the relationship they make with the Almighty God that starts from belief in the genesis and the resurrection, evolves into self-improvement, and ends in love and hatred absolutely for the Almighty God. Monotheistic morality encompasses purification steps, and divine proximity is the chief objective of morality aimed at paving the way for human development and obviating obstacles thereof. The Quranic method in human development is reaching at the monotheism respecting belief and deed in order to arrive at divine servitude. The Holy Quran focuses on encouragement before punishment, the two of which being complementary and contributing to one’s perfection and elimination of negligence. In the Holy Quran, patterns are introduced to make arrangements for human salvation, and Islam is characterized by presentation of immaculate patterns. The holy prophets are represented by the Quranic verses as the unblemished exemplars, whose significant attributes are put forward as first-rate patterns. The Holy Quran introduces the Holy Prophet Mohammad and the Holy Prophet Abraham as great patterns, and the stories of some prophets and religious leaders are mentioned there for further instruction.
saadi moayedi; enayat sharifi
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This essay is about two principles of "wisdom" and "beauty" and their relationships to each other in the Quran. The worth of these two above-mentioned words can be understood by frequency of their repetition in the Quran. And the examination of these concepts are required because of the repetitions and ...
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This essay is about two principles of "wisdom" and "beauty" and their relationships to each other in the Quran. The worth of these two above-mentioned words can be understood by frequency of their repetition in the Quran. And the examination of these concepts are required because of the repetitions and emphases which are done by different ways and in different verses of the Quran. In spite of many attempts of Quranic researchers, the relationship between these two words is largely neglected. So we try to study and think about Quran in this essay that we can reach to this miracle of Quran. In the Quran thinking galaxy, "wisdom" and "beauty" are not only two separate planets but also seriously related to each other. The art of Quran is that it can express profound meaning with its perfect structure. And this art is not usually paid attention by ordinary persons, and artist is someone that can access to those hidden and intangible relationships. To achieve this, we referred to dictionaries and extracted meanings of each word. Then, we distinguished the best meaning based on authentic interpretations. Finally, we showed the deep relationships between those two words that have come in revelation speech.
Enayatollah Sharifi; khavaninzadeh Mohammad Hossein
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Believing in “Return to life’ is one of the certain beliefs of the Shia so that the Shia scholars have claimed to have reached a consensus on this issue and it is argued and cited to verses 82 and 83 Surah Naml (the ant), verses 55, 72, 254, 259 of Surah Baqarah and verse 43 of Surah Sâd ...
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Believing in “Return to life’ is one of the certain beliefs of the Shia so that the Shia scholars have claimed to have reached a consensus on this issue and it is argued and cited to verses 82 and 83 Surah Naml (the ant), verses 55, 72, 254, 259 of Surah Baqarah and verse 43 of Surah Sâd for the possibility of their occurrence. Alsonumeroustraditions imply the possibilityoftheirreturn to life repeatedly.Some of them are entered about the importance and greatness of the day return, somein interpretation ofthe verses about returnandothersabout recent return. The most ofrationalreasons about the possibility of occurrence of return are inherentrefusal andthe possibility of occurrence,philosophicalrule or principleofoccurrence of anything and concept of “what is permissible and what is not permissible, are unit’’.
Enayatollah Sharifi; Mohammad Hossein Khavaninzadeh; Alireza Ansarimanesh
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Resurrection and return of human is innate and natural that has been affecting human life and activities throughout the history. Divine religions have confirmed this belief. But howness of this return is placed under the category of bodily resurrection which has been explained in different ways in the ...
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Resurrection and return of human is innate and natural that has been affecting human life and activities throughout the history. Divine religions have confirmed this belief. But howness of this return is placed under the category of bodily resurrection which has been explained in different ways in the teachings of the three religions. The resurrection in the divine religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, is physical. The physical resurrection is explained in the Holy Quran and Bible passages both similarly and differently in different cases. The emphasis on the resurrection of the body and the return of the body from the soil are among the characteristics of bodily resurrection in both Quran and Bible. In this regard, the extent and scope of the teachings of the Quran and the Bible have some differences. Among the differences of the bodily resurrection in the Quran and the Bible are speaking human organs and inanimate objects, animal’s resurrection, resemblance of divine body with earthly body, the fate of human body. There is also a great deal of common ground between the Quran and the Bible.
