ali sharifi; mehdi rezaeei
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Suffering in life is, in itself, a painful experience. However, what makes suffering in life cause extreme crises is its meaninglessness. Thus, a meaningful interpretation of suffering is a prerequisite for the durability of life and the meaning of it. The sufferings of a Muslim are given meaning through ...
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Suffering in life is, in itself, a painful experience. However, what makes suffering in life cause extreme crises is its meaninglessness. Thus, a meaningful interpretation of suffering is a prerequisite for the durability of life and the meaning of it. The sufferings of a Muslim are given meaning through the Quran, Sunnah and their teachings. Through a descriptive-analytical approach aims to examine suffering and its meaning in the Quran and traditions. In this research, we have tried to find out what the approach of the Quran and traditions is in reducing human suffering. After reviewing the verses of the Quran and Islamic traditions, we reach the conclusion that the Quran and traditions, by providing particular interpretations and teachings of suffering, have the immense ability of linking the difficult and unfathomable predicament of the meaning of the immense sufferings of humans to the agency of faith in a sacred, spiritual, and intelligent system and make these sufferings meaningful despite their painful appearance.
Abbas Ashrafi; Narjes JamalOmidi
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Religious innovation is a legal precedent to be added or reduced without any documentation from the Quran or tradition. God endowed people with a perfect religion leaving no way for addition or subtraction in it and said “pure religion is Only for God, and it is the only acceptable religion for ...
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Religious innovation is a legal precedent to be added or reduced without any documentation from the Quran or tradition. God endowed people with a perfect religion leaving no way for addition or subtraction in it and said “pure religion is Only for God, and it is the only acceptable religion for Him" (Zomar / 3). However, there have been always people who consciously or unconsciously attributed some irrelevant issues to it, and such irrelevant issues led to the religious innovations. This article examines the semantics of innovation in all aspects of innovation such as the emergence of innovation and examples of innovation by using thematic interpretation and qualitative content analysis. Indeed, innovation is comprised of three things: 1. The manipulation of religious matters including the Principles and Parameters by addition and subtraction, 2. promoting it among the people, and 3. The absence of specific or general religious reasons for the innovation. It is clear from this statement that any activity in which these three elements are present can be regarded as innovation, and it is not innovation at all in the absence of one or all of these elements.The first step for dealing with innovations is to inform the truth of religion to the public. The second step is to avoid blind imitation. And the third step refers to extricate yourself from heretics. Establishment of a system to promote virtue and prevent vice will help prevent innovation from promotion and implementation in the society.
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.
amrollah moin
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Since the dawn of creation, in both divine and non-divine religions, the believers have resorted to worship and above all prayer to express their gratitude to their God or gods. It is no exaggeration to deem prayer the gist of servitude as sincere prayer embraces all elements of unshakable faith. This ...
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Since the dawn of creation, in both divine and non-divine religions, the believers have resorted to worship and above all prayer to express their gratitude to their God or gods. It is no exaggeration to deem prayer the gist of servitude as sincere prayer embraces all elements of unshakable faith. This article seeks to study the extent to which a sincere prayer- sayer gains access to moral virtues and the prayer speeds up his moral growth and the impact the moral growth has on the content of the prayer. As a spiritual practice, prayer encourages the prayer-sayer to challenge his ego.
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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.
