Quran and Quranic teachings
aliasghar asgharivalogaee; seyedhosein hoseinikarnami
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AbstractOne of the most effective verbal tools and styles in conveying the concepts and experiences of the nation, which has an ancient history, is storytelling. Stories and storytelling are not specific to a specific culture and land and have existed in every nation and society for a long time. Contrary ...
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AbstractOne of the most effective verbal tools and styles in conveying the concepts and experiences of the nation, which has an ancient history, is storytelling. Stories and storytelling are not specific to a specific culture and land and have existed in every nation and society for a long time. Contrary to Jahiliyyah, where the ignorant storytellers used to tell stories for entertainment, education, and lessons in the Islamic society, this art got a religious color and the newly Muslim Jewish Qasasun used the teachings of their previous religion (Judaism) in the envelope of the Islamic religion, using the style of storytelling. They entered the culture of the society. Qassasun is a little-known and unorganized group that has had an effective presence in Islamic society for several centuries in such a way that in the books of Rijal and translations of the early and middle centuries of Hijri, besides mentioning various guilds of scholars, the group of "Qassasun" is also mentioned. And the word has come out. Since the fields of hadith, history and interpretation have been among the main materials and tools of Qasasun's speeches, their influence on Islamic culture is wide and significant. One of the areas where Qasasun's approach has not been spared is the field of Qur'an interpretation. Our goal in this research is to research and explain the characteristics and reasons of Qassasun's approaches to the field of Qur'an interpretation in the early Islamic centuries. The method of this research is a descriptive-analytical method based on library documents. The findings of the research show that the nature of the activity of this group in the field of interpretation of the Holy Qur'an was in conflict with the contents of the verses of the Qur'an and the teachings of Islam. One of the characteristics of Qasasun's negative approach to the interpretation of the Qur'an is verbosity in the interpretation of the Qur'an and the expression of marginal and unhelpful content while explaining and interpreting the contents of the Qur'anic verses. Even in the interpretation of words from the Qur'an that had a clear meaning or a clear and unambiguous appearance, they quoted long and strange words. Another characteristic of Qasasun's negative approach to interpreting the Qur'an is the distorted interpretations of the character and history of the divine prophets and the noble Prophet of Islam (PBUH). This distorted approach, the purpose of which is to destroy the spiritual and divine personality of the prophets, is based on intense piety, asceticism and pure worship of God Almighty, and an all-round, continuous and very strict jihad against the ego, lusts, carnal and satanic desires, and the purity of the prophets is essential in perceiving, communicating and acting on the divine revelation and their virtue, and lowering the status of the prophets to the understanding of the inferiority of human beings is a captive and a slave to the lusts of the self and is all materialistic and worldly. Another characteristic of the negative approach of Qasasun in the interpretation of the Qur'an is the distortion and destruction of the foundations and fundamental principles of the religion of Islam, that is, its principles, including monotheism, prophethood, resurrection and imamate, were exposed to distortion and misunderstanding and emptying it of the revealed teachings of the Qur'an. The main reason for the activity and negative and destructive approach of Qasasun in the interpretation of the Holy Qur'an is the lack of knowledge of Qasasun in the science of Qur'an interpretation and its rules. It is also a complete and comprehensive reliance on Israel. Punishers and Jews made a lot of effort to match the Holy Quran with the Torah. They constantly tried to make the Qur'an appear like the Torah, full of stories and legends, and to relate the myths and legends with the verses of the Qur'an. The Jews looked at the Torah as the divine book, and in their opinion, the narrations that did not agree with it were considered false. They put the Torah on the same level as the Qur'an.
Saeid Sheshgol Nejad; Abdol Majid Talebtash
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Saying prayer as a kind of supplication and religious practice is meant for establishing an growing and direct relationship between God Almighty and men and interestingly is commonly found in all divine religions of the world. Muslims and Zoroastrians are required to practice this worshiping act. The ...
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Saying prayer as a kind of supplication and religious practice is meant for establishing an growing and direct relationship between God Almighty and men and interestingly is commonly found in all divine religions of the world. Muslims and Zoroastrians are required to practice this worshiping act. The present research, drawing on the written resources of Islam and Zoroastrianism and following a library research method, aimed to compare saying prayer as manifested in the above mentioned heavenly religions i.e. Islam and Zoroastrianism. Furthermore, the similarities and the differences between these two religions in terms of saying prayer were studied. The results suggested that saying prayer enjoys a high status in both Islam and Zoroastrianism. In addition, a number of similarities between Islam and Zoroastrianism were found including positive effects of saying prayer on human beings’ relations with God, its purifying effect on everyone’s soul, its manifestation as a symbol of thanking God for his numerous blessings, the daily schedule of saying prayers for five times, and the religious age when saying prayer is required as a religious practice. The research also suggested that saying prayer is on a par with other kinds of worshiping in Zoroastrianism while it is the cornerstone and the main axis of religion in Islam. Therefore, Islamic style of saying prayer has no alternative and must be practiced consecutively and nonstop, enjoys a proliferated set of types of practice, and whether other kinds of worshiping practices would be accepted or rejected by God depends on acceptance or rejection of one’s saying prayer. Such an approach towards saying prayer was not found in Zoroastrianism
Sadr al-Din Shariati; Sepideh Ensafi Mehrbani
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thingsthat invite human beings to reflection and thinking is the problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’.The main questionin the debate is that whetherhuman is “Free’’ or “one who chooses’’ in someof his actions at least or he is ...
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thingsthat invite human beings to reflection and thinking is the problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’.The main questionin the debate is that whetherhuman is “Free’’ or “one who chooses’’ in someof his actions at least or he is “compelled’’ and not have authority! Also what areit's theeducational implications? According to history, freedom is a human permanent demand. People want the freedom around the world andtheir attentiontocountries withmore freedom is the more. Weareseekingfreedom; because it provides possibility of compling our demands and desires increasingly. Afree mancan lives as he loves, go towhereverhe wants, think andselect in any wayhe desires.The problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’ is one of the thingsthat it is mentioned inphilosophy, theology, ethics and etc.butnotwiththe educationallook. In this research, we attempt toreview and study “Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’ from the perspective of Islamandthe Quranand then we wlill provide its appropriate educational implications. In the end, after qualitative analyzing of data we conclude that one of the important implications derived from this issue, is the principle of responsibility in humanwhich it affects on other educational affairs
Naim Amuori; Masoud Bavan Pouri
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thingsthat invite human beings to reflection and thinking is the problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’.The main questionin the debate is that whetherhuman is “Free’’ or “one who chooses’’ in someof his actions at least or he is ...
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thingsthat invite human beings to reflection and thinking is the problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’.The main questionin the debate is that whetherhuman is “Free’’ or “one who chooses’’ in someof his actions at least or he is “compelled’’ and not have authority! Also what areit's theeducational implications? According to history, freedom is a human permanent demand. People want the freedom around the world andtheir attentiontocountries withmore freedom is the more. Weareseekingfreedom; because it provides possibility of compling our demands and desires increasingly. Afree mancan lives as he loves, go towhereverhe wants, think andselect in any wayhe desires.The problem of“Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’ is one of the thingsthat it is mentioned inphilosophy, theology, ethics and etc.butnotwiththe educationallook. In this research, we attempt toreview and study “Compulsion’’ and “Free will’’ from the perspective of Islamandthe Quranand then we wlill provide its appropriate educational implications. In the end, after qualitative analyzing of data we conclude that one of the important implications derived from this issue, is the principle of responsibility in humanwhich it affects on other educational affairs
Roqaieh Ebrahimi zad Jovaimi; Faraj Talashan
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Distribution is one of important features of the economy in any society, so that it is a necessity the good ratio between production, consumption and distribution in any economy. One of the principles of conventional economics is the principle of distribution which it seems that such a principle challenges ...
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Distribution is one of important features of the economy in any society, so that it is a necessity the good ratio between production, consumption and distribution in any economy. One of the principles of conventional economics is the principle of distribution which it seems that such a principle challenges many Islamic teachings such as the prohibition of hoarding, sharing of the capital, commanding to moderation in distribution and etc. Therefore, this article studies the teachings of the Quran and hadiths about distribution by using an analytic-descriptive approach and it is seeking to find a suitable response for the most import
Sayed Abdu al-Rauf Afzali
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The present article deals with the subject of Islam and the violence.Discussion about Islam and violence is a long-standing debate. But, with developments of the world, especially inthe Muslim world in the last two decades, world people especially westerners have focused to this issue more and more and ...
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The present article deals with the subject of Islam and the violence.Discussion about Islam and violence is a long-standing debate. But, with developments of the world, especially inthe Muslim world in the last two decades, world people especially westerners have focused to this issue more and more and many people attack to Islamic teachings by using this situation. This article discusses about existing views on Islam and violence and their reasons.Finally,the authorprovideshischosenapproach.According to this view, Islam is not merely a religion of war and violence and it's notmerelya religion of peaceandtolerance. Islam uses from any of these items to reach its goal depending on the situation.The goal of Islam is emancipation of human from the inner and outer bondages to achieve perfection and self-actualization. The perfection of human is in obedience to God. The serving to God is the pinnacle of freedom or liberalism. With the arrival of humans to the position of thraldom, He vacates him from vices and gives him graces with perfections.In fact,by removing of internal and external barriers and providing of the thraldom terms, on one hand, Islam saves the human who is seeking of religiosity and thraldom instinctively from confusion and perplexity andleadshimtowardsaparticularpole, andon the other hand, saves human from any restrictions by connecting to the infinite divine and bringstoactuality his capability.
Jamal Farzan Vahi
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Movement andhuman dignity is one of the basic tenets of the Islamic religion. Life, property, honor, belief and judgment of all humans are respectful and thisprivacyshould alwaysbe preserved. There is no difference between men and women in the sanctity and dignity human and inIslamic culture, men and ...
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Movement andhuman dignity is one of the basic tenets of the Islamic religion. Life, property, honor, belief and judgment of all humans are respectful and thisprivacyshould alwaysbe preserved. There is no difference between men and women in the sanctity and dignity human and inIslamic culture, men and women are as creatures of God and also they are as his Specialinterest. It's the pride of the Islamic legal system that woman is owner of rights in economic, political, familial, legal, Ebadifields and with regard to dowry, alimony and etc, provides material and spiritual rights of women in the family system, because in Islam there is no difference between the truth and the nature of man and woman. In the Quran, when there is talking about human virtues and values, it also suggests women alongside men. In the beginning of this article, we have reviewed the conditions and rights of women in three parts social, political and financial in the ageof ignoranceand then, we have studied Islamic upheavals in these conditions and rights. The purpose of this article is explanation part of the rights that Islam has given to women. We usetextof the Holy Quran, the Sunnah of Ahl al-Bayt, legal and religious books.
batoul vaez; roghaye kardel ilvari
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To provide a true and accurate account of Islam from a Quranic perspective, this study aims to offer a comparative analysis of the pillars of Islam which comprises its principles of faith (monotheism, prophethood, and resurrection) as well as its morality and ethics and rules and regulations with the ...
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To provide a true and accurate account of Islam from a Quranic perspective, this study aims to offer a comparative analysis of the pillars of Islam which comprises its principles of faith (monotheism, prophethood, and resurrection) as well as its morality and ethics and rules and regulations with the pillars of Judaism and Christianity. This study confirms the supremacy of Islam in its principles and pillars, as Islam is a moderate and logic-based religion compared with the other two which go to extremes. Monotheism, for example, and theism in general as offered by the Quran means unity of a God who is unique, indivisible and far from human characteristics; monotheism in Judaism, however, considers similitude for God and Christianity acknowledges trinity, a belief in multiplicity of Gods, which is not attributable to God.
ali ghazanfari; babollah mohammadi nabi kandi
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The present paper focuses on economic development as discussed in the holy Qur'an. It first examines the definitions of the terms 'development' and 'economic development' from the viewpoint of scholars, Islam and the Qur'an. The suggestions of the holy Qur'an for economic development are then classified ...
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The present paper focuses on economic development as discussed in the holy Qur'an. It first examines the definitions of the terms 'development' and 'economic development' from the viewpoint of scholars, Islam and the Qur'an. The suggestions of the holy Qur'an for economic development are then classified into two types of spiritual and material (such as the impact of piety upon economic development, expenditures for charity, negation of usury as a negative factor in economic development, …) and explained. The results of the analysis revealed that economic development depends on the individuals in a society who should have faith in God and the Book of Revelation and rely on commentators' exegetic interpretations of the Quranic verses and implement Quranic suggestions to attain success; such development takes place when Islamic societies become self-sufficient.
mohammad hadi homayoun; mahmud motahari nia
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It is reputed that kufa, whose history will be dealt with briefly, was established in the second decade AH. However, there arc substantial narratives that reveal that Kufa and some special parts of it which are against our eyes today like Kufa and Sahle mosque have a history as old as the human history ...
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It is reputed that kufa, whose history will be dealt with briefly, was established in the second decade AH. However, there arc substantial narratives that reveal that Kufa and some special parts of it which are against our eyes today like Kufa and Sahle mosque have a history as old as the human history and since the time of prophet Adam (peace be upon him) a particular attention has been given to these areas. With the establishment of Islamic Kufa, this attention has experienced a mutation and the peak of these changes will appear at the end time when it is chosen as the capital of the Imam Mahdi· s government. This study is defined as a sort of monograph in the field of historical geography studies which are considered as the sub-branches of Islamic history and civilization discipline. This study is an attempt to put a different perspective on the history of this city by utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and using many different narrations. According to the narratives and hadiths utilized in this study and from the perspective of Islam, it can be claimed that Kufa is one of the Islamic cities which requires numerous studies. Through doing more serious studies and researches like this about Mahdavi and Shiite approach of the policymaking, these studies can complement some parts of the Shiite studies and researches.
mojtaba motahari elhami
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Beauty and art, specifically religious art is one of the most brilliant and mysterious aspect of human culture and a distinguished symbol of Islamic culture and civilization also the best method to introduce religion, religious culture, spirirual wise.lorn, theosophy, and represent the biography of the ...
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Beauty and art, specifically religious art is one of the most brilliant and mysterious aspect of human culture and a distinguished symbol of Islamic culture and civilization also the best method to introduce religion, religious culture, spirirual wise.lorn, theosophy, and represent the biography of the prophets to the contemporary human. This is the fact which should be considered in religious research and theology. Frorn religious perspectives, aesthetics and art are important means for introducing the characteristics of the Islam prophet (Upon whom be peace) to the world. Art and beauty are not limited to the apparent beaury and the beauty of the nature, further it has an inner sight since it enjoys the divine quality and has two aspects: one in nature which covers all the manifestations of the nature like a beautiful garment and the other is the beauty essence, substance, or the n,ystical beauty; the inner aspect of art. Knowing different religions and the dignified divine prophets is rhrough both the outward appearance and the imaginary or spiritual beauty. This study is aimed at representing the religious or divine knowledge. In addition, it provides more information as co the appearance of the holy prophet through beauty and art perspectives, art embodiment, and the architecture of rhe breast of Islam.
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Feminism emerged in the beginning of the seventeenth century as a movement to vindicate the women's rights. However, instead of defending the women's real rights, misused them as a means and had ungracious presuppositions like belittling the essence of women's characters, believing in women's manhood, ...
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Feminism emerged in the beginning of the seventeenth century as a movement to vindicate the women's rights. However, instead of defending the women's real rights, misused them as a means and had ungracious presuppositions like belittling the essence of women's characters, believing in women's manhood, eliminating men from the society and transferring their affairs to women which all revealed a state of radical feminism that has threatened the women's community. This study rs to exanune the abovementioned viewpoints and determine their possible weaknesses. In addition, it reviews the status of women and their real rights in religion in order to present the dominant situations in a large part of our rural and urban areas with an inappropriate culture of gender discrimination exerting the men's dominance and treating women with a lot of authority and dominance. Meanwhile, many of the women's legal and absolute rights are neglected. Demonstrating innumerable injustices against the religion and creating an improper image of women's restrictions in religion have aroused serious doubts as to their legal laws or injunctions, including inheritance, legal custody, testimony, blood-money, and etc. This study sets out to briefly examine the aforemennoncd rights so that the Muslim women can precisely figure out the philosophy of these rights, regarding their spiritual rights to achieve their relief and respects, and maintain their dignity. More importantly, they can emancipate from the wrongdoers' carnal desires and feministic thoughts.
