ISLAMIC SOCIAL STUDIES
Year:2013 | Volume:19 | Issue:2 (97)|Papers Count:7

Different types of interactions in a family represent some aspects of lifestyle, structure and direction. Virtue-oriented families can foster more effective generations and historically important characters that can be considered as practical and behavioural models in history. Modeling based on such families can be constructive and transformative, and accelerates a family’s progress towards appropriate lifestyles and structures. Such transformative pattern is found in the life of the prophet of Islam, Imam Ali and Hazrat Zahra. Their lifestyle should be regarded as one of the best models in Islam.In their religious family, they achieved the goal of closeness to God, which is considered as the most considerable and essential principle in Islam. Imam Ali and Hazrat Zahra got married to achieve their religious celestial aim, besides meeting their physical and mental needs. They established their life on the basis of love, sincerity, simplicity and ease. They had four main aims which can be explained in the following manner:1. Communicating with each other based on empathy, consensus, thrift, and stability when confronting hardship.2. Closeness to God on the basis of full cognizance, love of God, being servant of God.3. Communicating with children based on affection, respect and model approach to provide them with great training principles and help them serve as historically significant characters in their life.4. Making direct or indirect affinity between the members of the family, women in Medina, and influential and political features.

Islamic lifestyle is enormously different from Western lifestyle in aims, worldviews and anthropological basics. These differences can directly affect economic life and individuals’ behaviour in a way that two widely different approaches of production, business and consumption are established. Being affected by capitalism, Western lifestyle is founded upon individuals’ financial rights based on which people’s aim of market economy is making the optimal profit in consumption and the highest return on production and investment. While, in Islamic lifestyle, human beings try to achieve the highest celestial aim which is closeness to God resulting from optional spiritual improvements. The current study mentioned some basic rules to achieve the final aim of closeness to God in the direction of financial and economic activities in a way that do not refuse each other.Considering the worldviews and anthropological basics of capitalism which is structured upon deism, naturalism and humanism, Western lifestyle can be affected by the aforementioned systems of belief which regard human wisdom superior than revelation, believe in a God who made the world but has no influence on human lives, try to solve human problems through science rather than religion, believe in economic liberalism, leave all constraints, accept secularism and the view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs. But, according to Islam, the relationship between God and human beings is an owner-owned relationship which asserts the sovereignty of God over human beings to govern their social and economic lifestyle.Based on this belief, human being is the successor of God on the earth, and is purposeful, responsible and having a sense of social and individual identity. It is obvious that these two worldviews can bring about two widely different lifestyles. The present article placed emphasis on Quranic verses and took advantage of associated studies to compare two Islamic and Western lifestyles focusing on economic aims and basics.

Religion can make a mutual relationship between workconscience and lifestyle. In fact, the widespread distribution of religion has made a public and stable culture among populations. Furthermore, its application can improve work-conscience in social and individual domains as a daily habit. Giving up this habit can cause guilty conscience and make people follow social norms of affect people’s work-consciences and lifestyles, guide them through the direction of religion, and make influential interaction between them can be as follows: considering religion as an effective element in encouraging hardworking, regarding work as a holy activity, and paying attention to earning Halal income to internalize work-conscience in a religious lifestyle. Moreover, Islamic lifestyle, which is founded upon Islamic beliefs, can significantly create and improve work-conscience. The present study intends to assert such a relationship.

Mental health has always been an important issue for human beings. They have constantly sought various approaches to improve mental health and treat psychological-moral illnesses.The present study aims to investigate different approaches of improving individuals’ mental health on the basis of an applied, organized and Islamic system; therefore, having delivered basic concepts of mental health and individuals’ psychological-moral illnesses, the authors explained some approaches of improving individuals’ mental health with the application of both general and specialized treatments. Then, preventive health care and treatment strategies were introduced at three primary, secondary and tertiary levels at different years of age as a child, adolescent, young, old, and extremely old person. These strategies were discussed with regard to Qur’an and Hadith to represent a rich and structured system of Islamic psychology and applied ethics in Islam.Owing to the fact that Islam is one of the richest and most widespread religions which paid much attention to the psychological issues, the current study had to and deliver just a schematic pattern and used some examples of Qur’an and Hadith to exemplify the authors’ suggested method. This study employed new procedures of prioritizing, classifying and exemplifying some The Approaches of Mental Health Improvement from the Viewpoints of Qur’an and Hadith * Corresponding author: Seyed Abouzar Hosseini * Seyed Mohammad Bagher Hojjati ental health has always been an important issue for human beings. They have constantly sought various approaches to improve mental health and treat psychological-moral illnesses.The present study aims to investigate different approaches of improving individuals’ mental health on the basis of an applied, organized and Islamic system; therefore, having delivered basic concepts of mental health and individuals’ psychological-moral illnesses, the authors explained some approaches of improving individuals’ mental health with the application of both general and specialized treatments. Then, preventive health care and treatment strategies were introduced at three primary, secondary and tertiary levels at different years of age as a child, adolescent, young, old, and extremely old person. These strategies were discussed with regard to Qur’an and Hadith to represent a rich and structured system of Islamic psychology and applied ethics in Islam.Owing to the fact that Islam is one of the richest and most widespread religions which paid much attention to the psychological issues, the current study had to and deliver just a schematic pattern and used some examples of Qur’an and Hadith to exemplify the authors’ suggested method. This study employed new procedures of prioritizing, classifying and exemplifying some statements from Qur’an or Hadith.

Creative and selective factors of lifestyle have made this concept different from other concepts of culture, subculture, identity, personality and so forth. Islamic lifestyle is not a static, repetitive and stagnant style. It is rather a dynamic and progressing approach which brings about creativity and innovation. Applying an Islamic lifestyle help human beings be capable of being creative and take advantage of this aptitude. It should be believed that all human beings have inherent capacity of being creative, since they are God’s successors on the earth. This system of belief can arouse awareness, thought and creativity in people. Creativity is a necessary requirement of human beings in all aspects of Islamic lifestyle which helps them improve their thoughts and knowledge. Similar to other requirements, creativity can be threatened by some obstacles. The present study is a desk research which defines the concepts of creativity and innovation on the basis of Qur’an and Hadith. It aims to investigate the elements acting as deterrents to the emergence of individual creativity in Islamic lifestyle and presents some solutions with regard to Islamic doctrines.

Illegality is a main obstacle of social improvement. Expecting others to obey laws and regularities and do not paying attention to our duties as citizens, Interpreting the laws for our individual and group benefits, cheating , using law as a tool, fraud in the application of law, misuse of law, inflicting severe damages on public and private profits, and committing offenses are all different forms of illegality. Illegality is a negative cultural state of being against the rules of law, which is opposed to legality. Citizens have various civil, political, social, economic, cultural and judicial rights, and providing these rights is aimed by all governments. Public organizations also commit offenses by employing discriminatory and unfair regulations. The current study aims toassess the effects of illegality on citizens, and mutual rights of government and citizens, and also the effects of intraorganizationalillegalities on citizens’ rights.

Human beings have a lot in common, but what makes them different from each other is their employed approaches, styles and customs which produce some difficulties and challenges according to the volume of activities. Considering this fact, Iran’s legislative system has provided a cultural appendix when ratifying major economic, development and cultural plans.The author criticized the architecture of a modern Islamic city which is not consistent with Islamic and human motivates such as morality, culture, law that existed in the past. It seems that this problem is the consequence of borrowing some elements from others without considering the Islamic values. It should be also mentioned that leaving this approach will bring about other difficulties.according to the volume of activities. Considering this fact, Iran’s legislative system has provided a cultural appendix when ratifying major economic, development and cultural plans. The author criticized the architecture of a modern Islamic city which is not consistent with Islamic and human motivates such as morality, culture, law that existed in the past. It seems that thisproblem is the consequence of borrowing some elements from others without considering the Islamic values. It should be also mentioned that leaving this approach will bring about other difficulties.The current study is a descriptive research which focused on the modern approach of development planning considering cultural and legal problems. No specific approach was prescribed, since there is no necessity to prescribe an approach when investigating in a domain, and presenting such a method requires that a group of architectures and religious experts cooperate on this issue.This study is comprised of an introduction and two main sections. In the first section, Islamic architecture factors were generally expressed, and in the second section, considering national and religious reasoning, a critical analysis of development planning was conducted in both public and Islamic phases.It is a desk and semi-applied research which used descriptive methods.