THEOLOGICAL- DOCTRIANAL RESEARCH (THE ISLAMIC SCIENCE QUARTERLY)
Year:2010 | Volume:4 | Issue:16|Papers Count:8

The Holy Quran has stressed the issue of thought in various occasions, knowing it as the foundation of man’s character. Thus, man can attain perfection under the protection of true thinking. It is worthy to mention that the Holy Quran has elaborated not only the importance of thought but also the principles working as the basis of thought, including man’s nature and knowledge. As a result, the true thinking is always in conformity with man’s nature as well as knowledge. Accordingly, the present article lays stress on 1) the importance of thought in the holy Quran 2) the principles of though in the holy Quran.

The Divine essence is considered as the origin of sanctity, and the attribute of sanctity manifests itself in different ways in Divine creatures. Mankind has been created in accordance with the Divine ground, and proximity to God, the Almighty, sanctifies him. The angels have also been created as holy beings, and they are considered as another manifestation of Divine sanctity. In addition, a number of deeds, places, times and objects associated with Divinity enjoy sanctity. Man can attain elevation through them when perceiving them in association with God and employing them for Divine training. The sanctity rank of everything depends on its association to God. Thus, sanctities of whatever kind and rank are accounted as the manifestation of Divinity, helping man attain Divine training.

The present article intends to survey the reality of mental existence theory in accordance with the entity originality and substance move in Sadra’s thought. After pointing out the importance of mental existence theory and its review of literature, the article presents a number of reasons to prove the reality of this theory from Sadra’s standpoint, and finally, it deals with the question whether the mentioned theory can provide the ground of realism for man’s insight in accordance with the entity originality and substance move? The results then show that the mentioned principles of ontology can prevent us to believe that mental existence theory, which is in conformity with Sadra’s philosophical views, can demonstrate the mentioned attribute. This theory has led many thinkers to the view that mental existence theory is not considered as Sadra’s main viewpoint, and thus, they have presented his innovative thought on man’s insight in his integration theory.

The theory of manifestation is accounted as one of the most significant theories for elaborating the universe as it helps elaborate the issue of Monism in theoretical Mysticism. It is also the origin of mystic circumstances in practical mysticism. The present article studies the historical evolution of manifestation theory since the beginning of Islamic era. It firstly analyzes the lexical meaning of word “manifestation” and its historical evolution, and then studies the theory of manifestation from Ibn Arabi and his followers’ standpoint.

The present study is to survey the role of Etekaf in religious teachings and its effect on enhancing welfare. To this end, one of the mosques in which 129 female university students of Yazd had sequestered themselves was chosen in cluster approach. The students were appraised through Oxford Joy Appraised Pre-test and Post-test System before and after Etekaf. The results were analyzed via‘t’ test, applied to two correlated groups, demonstrating that participation in Etekaf ceremony can virtually enhance welfare (a=0.01), partly due to the rituals performed during this time.

Management in Islamic system and its different areas, including Islamic institutes, is accounted as the main principle to achieve Divine missions and objectives. From the Islamic standpoint, the managers should supervise their subordinates’ functions and reward them both spiritually and materially.Lenience, affection, courtesy, cheerfulness, integration, piety, patience, skillfulness and being a good listener are among the managers’ attributes in educational institutes and organizations.Imam Ali (peace be upon him) considered the followings as the main attributes of muslim managers in different levels and organizations: using the facilities properly, avoiding relativism, working ceaselessly to serve people, keeping away from capitalism and capitalists, treating people with justice, avoiding fury in workplace, forgiving and providing the ground for employees to make-up for their past mistakes, assessing the subordinates’ directly and indirectly, keeping away from slackness, rewarding or punishing properly, expressing sympathy toward others, appointing people based on meritocracy, providing facilities for employees, futurism, etc.

Historians have always emphasized the magnificent past era of Islamic Empire, the dominion of muslim civilization and the fame of muslim scholars. The creation of a novel scientific and global civilization during two centuries is really extraordinary. These historians believe that the creative power of this movement occurred from the Middle Ages to 13th century, in which Arabic was not only the language of the holy Quran and religious precepts, but also the international language of science, and thus, it was the main key to the pearly-gate of scientific contexts from the mid of second century to the end of fifth century. But before long, this light was extinguished and thus, the culture and civilization of Muslims began to decline. What did, in fact, bring about that power of leadership and then the decline of Muslims?The present article attempts to survey the causes of ups and downs of Islamic civilization in those eras, hoping to set light on the way of Islamic civilization in accordance to today world.