ISLAM AND HEALTH JOURNAL
Year:2014 | Volume:1 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:8

Introduction: Although using cloning technology has opened a new horizon on easier treatment of mankind diseases. But, human reproductive cloning has created concerns on injustices and infringement to principles and human ethics among the religious thinkers. Main point of Ethical problem on human reproductive cloning is the violation on human dignity. The purpose of this article is study of incompatibility of human reproductive cloning and human dignity in Quranic teachings.Methods: The present study is based on the analytical, documental and conceptual method. In this regard, the necessary data gathered by refer to the first-hand sources such as Quranic interpretations books like Almizan, Nemone Quran encyclopedia and data bank sites like Magiran, Noormags, iranmedex, on based of research questions and analyzed by the authors.Findings: Regarding to incompatibility of human reproductive cloning and human dignity there are various arguments such as violation of human dignity in Asexual reproduction, Failure to maintain the uniqueness and individuality, Violating the dignity of embryo. But it should be said that there is not exact detailed expression on incompatibility of human reproductive cloning and human dignity. The survey in Islamic literature indicates that human reproductive cloning violated human dignity in different context. In quranic view the specification of the human who deserves the dignity is being as successor of God on the earth. Creation of such specification for human dignity is due to his or her physical and mental dimension of creation. But based on biological sciences the reproductive cloning provide disorders in reproduction of tissues and organs, weakening the human gene pool and changing in self recognition which lead to the violation of mental and physical dignity.Conclusion: The present study shows that there is incompatibility of human reproductive cloning and human dignity in different approach according to Islamic teachings It is necessary that life science researchers based their essential doctrine on respect religious values in using their researches goals in mankind populations.

Introduction: Improperly dressed, a destructive factor in mental health, is as a social problem. This phenomenon needs to be carefully assessed and investigated.This study aimed to investigate the causes of tendency to the improperly dressed (Bad Hijabi) from the girl students’ perspective.Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 girl students of Babol University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected using researcher-made questionnaire and its validity and reliability was confirmed by a pilot study and test-re-test. Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistical methods.Findings: According to the study, four factors such as modish 51%, attracting the attention of others 45.3%, friend’s selection 43% and religious beliefs 39.5% were the highest propensity to improperly dressed from the girl students’ perspective.Students mentioned the other effective factors tending to improperly dressed such as: the cultural poverty, lack of family supervision and stubbornness because of the university excessive severiety. The students proposed the strategies such as talking about woman’s great personality and her role in the family, expressing the harms of improperly dressed, its following the growth of prostitution and determination the specific mode and uniform for universities.Conclusion: The results showed that the priority strategies for removing the improperly dressed are including: the increase of the knowledge of students through holding the philosophical education workshops for Hijab and its importance, holding the answer- question meetings about the advantages of Hijab and disadvantages of Bad Hijabi, decreasing the severity of color selection and of dress and also encouraging to keep the Hijab in the commands of Islam.

Introduction: The first stage of digestion is passing food from the mouth and crushing it with teeth. Not only maintaining healthy teeth facilitate the digestion, but also help the beauty, the correct pronunciation of words and also the promotion of mental health. In this study, the dental and oral health was investigated through using the Salvadora Persica plant in Islamic teachings to the pharmaceutical industry.Methods: The investigation in the Islamic sources and in the way of Prophet Muhammad has always special orders and teaching to protect and promote human health. Therefore, this descriptive study was conducted to investigate the health system through the study of library resources, religious teachings and those of traditions compliant with scientific and practical findings related to the dental and oral health.Findings: Today, with the scientific progress, the researchers have recognized the strong recommendation and causes of the use of Persica plant. Persica plant or toothbrush has not only a physical structure, but the mysterious roots contained useful compounds particularly the fluoride, sulfur, chloride ions to strengthen the enamel of tooth and is strong germicidal in the mouth.Conclusion: Islamic advice and recommendations emphasized the use of this and declared Persica protect and promote the dental and oral health and prevent many oral and gastrointestinal diseases.

Introduction: Publishing articles on religious issues is an effective means to understand religious concepts and their relation to health and hygien. The aim of this study was to discover tendency to religious issues in scientific outputs of medical sciences.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on all Persian Medical Sciences Journals during two years (2011-2013). Titles, abstracts and keywords of all articles were reviewed in terms of words such as God, Quran, Verses and Hadith, prayer, fast, and religion. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and analyzed using descriptive statistics.Findings: The results showed that 82 (0.6% of articles) of 13000 published articles from 126 journals of 47 Medical Sciences Universities (during 2011-2013) were used mentioned words. Journals of Shahid Beheshti, Babol and Isfahan Medical Sciences Universities had the highest frequency of related articles (13, 11 and 9, respectively) and Quran was the most frequent word among all detected articles (19 times).Conclusion: Although a number of scientific outputs of medical sciences were dedicated to religious issues, the rate of such topics was limited. Therefore, it is recommended that the specialists must be careful and take measures aimed at publishing more scientific articles in this field.

Introduction: The purpose of this present research was to study Religious attitudes, Spiritual Well-Being and social support in predicting the life satisfaction in mothers of mental retardation children.Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted on all mothers of mental retardation children referring to Emam Sajjad therapeutic center at Torbat-E-Heydarieh city in 2014. The convenience sampling method is used here. Therefore, 100 mothers of mental retardation children referring to Emam Sajjad centers were selected and filled out thequestionnaires. The Life satisfaction questionnaire, Religious attitudes measure, Spiritual Well-Being questionnaires and social support questionnaire were used to collect the data. The data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation index and multivariable regression analysis.Findings: The results showed there was a positive relationship between the Religious attitudes (r=0.309), Religious Well-Being (r=0.157), Existential Well-Being (r=0.190), Family social support (r=0.390) and friends social support (r=0.100) and the life satisfaction among mothers of mental retardation children. Also, the results showed that social support (B=0.449), Religious attitudes (B=0.451) and Spiritual Well-Being (B=0.319) can significantly predicted change the life satisfaction in mothers of children with intellectual disability, Respectively and 30% of quality of life variance was elaborated using Religious attitudes, Spiritual Well-Being and social support.Conclusion: It can be concluded that Religious attitudes, Spiritual Well-Being and social support play the major roles in life satisfaction among mothers of mental retardation children.

Introduction: Marriage is a critical step towards the achievement of individual and collective human perfection. Homogamy is a common feature advised for the mate selection in religion and psychology. The aim of this study was to investigate the rank of Homogamy in Fegh-h and compare it with psychology.Methods: This analytical and documental study was conducted through referring to the scientific and religionious documents such as released articles and Fegh-h books.Findings: The results showed that first, the homogamy is an acceptable theory among psychologists.second, religious homogamy is paid attention more than other aspects of homogamy by the psychologists. On the other hand, Kufwiat in Fegh-h is more slightly similar to the homogamy in psychology and Fegh-h does not permit the marriage with a person who is not considerd as a religious Kufw.Conclusion: A comparison between psychologists and jurists ideas indicated firstly that the study of psychologists confirmed the importance of Kufwiat especially faith one and mentioned the useful works. Second, the Shiite jurists have suggested that some of the criteria can be ignored provided that the main criteria are fulfilled, while this prioritizing was not seen in the study of psychologists.

Introduction: Psychological factors in addition to various parts of the body, including the immune system, nervous system, endocrine system and digestive system play a major role in human health. According to the Quran, Hadith and Islamic guidelines, the special position of health in Islam can be realized. One of the sublime precepts of Islam is "fasting" which has a key role in individual and social growth and human progress such as prayer and other divine commandments.Islam has expressed fasting as an important factor for the health of body and soul, which has been mentioned directly in many verses of Quran and Islamic traditions.Nowadays, World Health Organization knows spirituality as a major aspect of health and emphasizes the importance of its impact on health more than ever before. This review article investigated the fasting impact as one of the Important and noble precepts of Islam on body and soul health of human and their relationships with the increase of immune system and thus the promotion of health, levels according to the Quran, Hadith, Islamic traditions and scientific and research findings and papers.Methods: The present review study investigated the relationship between fasting and the physical and spiritual health and its effect on the increase of health level based on Qur' an verses, religious traditions, religious books and resources as well as books and valid scientific-research papers have been used.Findings: The importance of fasting and its relationship with the health of body and soul are mentioned in many verses of Qur' an and authentic religious traditions and Hadith. The significance of fasting in the improvement of health and immune system has been emphasized in Altareq Sura -fourth verse- and scientific evidences, too.Conclusion: Spiritual benefits of fasting which are in connection with religious beliefs of the fast person is much more important than its physical effects on the human body and it can be said that the main purpose of fasting is spiritual benefits.Many studies show the spiritual and material effect of fasting on the promotion of the immune system. According to the World Health Organization's definition and considering spirituality as a fourth dimension of health, spiritual aspects of fasting and its relation with the increase of health level must be discussed further. In addition, scientific and educational centers must pay more attention to the importance of fasting from spiritual health perspective and its impact on enhancing the immune level of body.

Introduction: Undoubtedly, breast milk is the best food for the baby in the first months of the birth and breastfeeding is one of blessings and gifts that God has physiologically bestowed human beings during the first two years of their lives.The mechanism and plan of this important issue have been processed by using many verses of Qur' an. Qur' an orders the parents especially mothers not to deprive their children of this blessing because breast milk is the unique and perfect food in the promotion of mental health and physical growth, optimal development of children and increasing of emotional relationships in society.Methods: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate and analyze comparatively the "breast milk" from the approach of Qur' an and some scientific and medical results. Therefore, this research was performed using verses of Qur' an, authentic hadiths, medical books and scientific papers.Findings: Several verses of Qur' an emphasize the importance of mother's milk and the important issues such as foremilk or colostrums, priorities for mother to breastfeed the infant, consultation in the breast-feeding process, the optimal duration of breastfeeding and bonding relationships between infants and lactiferous were mentioned in the verses of God with special delicacy. Medical texts as well as Qur' an emphasize the importance of breastfeeding.Conclusion: The study shows that the best nutrition for infants is breast milk and indirect breastfeeding from the breast provides rights. It is necessary for mothers not to deprive the children of their rights for two years in order to preserve the physical and mental health of them.