نشریه قرآن و علم
پیاپی 18 (بهار و تابستان 1395)

In order to provide the hygiene of soul and spirit, pre-empt and control the rise and spread of mental disorder in the society, most of the health experts are forced to dedicate a great deal of their studies and researches to psychopathy. The reason behind such an endeavor is the necessity of comprehensive health and its profound impact on human’s efficiency in different levels of life. The paper at hand deals with the fundamental concepts of spiritual and psychological health system such as: health, soul, spirit, psycho, heart, psychological health and comprehensive health system. It paves the ground for laying the foundations of a compressive health system with particular objectives, fundamental concepts, premises, rules, realms and properties. Given that, it describes the current state of psychological health system and provides a clear picture from an ideal compressive psychological health system.

Positive thinking is an optimistic and hopeful attitude to life where one dwells on the appealing, clear and delightful aspects of his life, avoids hopelessness and escape inappropriate and destructive feelings. This way of looking at things has indeed its great substantial impacts on one’s life. A great number of books, though, have been written on the subject but a few have addressed the question from an Islamic perspective. Thus, the article begins with general remarks on positive thinking and restudies the affirmative verses of the Quran and Hadith literature on positive thinking. Like every other concept, positive thinking can also run counter to religious teachings which they are termed as pathology of positive thinking. The article, almost relying on religious texts, has briefly introduced the concept and pathologies of positive-thinking. It has, however, mainly embarked on the impediments of positive-thinking that prevent man from optimism.

The ultimate goal of Islam is to lay the foundations of a just, perfect and appropriate civilization that provides human felicity in this world and in the hereafter. The Quran, thus, offers necessary premises to meet such an invaluable objective. The current research investigates the civilizational foundations in the Quran, citing it as a supernatural and superhuman phenomenon. The writer sheds light on the Quranic civilizational theories to prove the possibility of presenting a fair and appropriate framework to lay the foundations and pillars of Quranic civilization. Thus, he studies the prime concepts such civilization and overhauls some of the Quranic principles in line with the heavenly laws and applicants that seem necessary in establishing an ideal Quranic and human civilization.

The current paper is an attempt to study those Quranic verses that deal with the early stages of human embryonic creation and formation. The revelation of new scientific facts in the science of embryology and their conformity with the Quranic verses make every one confess the miraculous nature of the Quran. Again, the Quran proves to be far ahead of its time. For the Quranic depiction of human embryonic development, which is delineated by somehow 40 verses and tens of traditions, is absolutely harmonious with the recent findings of embryology. The more one ponders upon the Quranic verses and compares them with the latest scientific discoveries, he would find more harmony and compatibility between science and the Quran. Such an issue, causes one to put his complete faith and trust in Allah, in the Quran and in the words of the prophet of Islam.

Although the Quran is the book of guidance and guidance is related to one’s soul, but the Quran contains valuable scientific indications for maintaining healthy nutrition and physic as well. An analytic study of the Quran’s approach to edibles show that it has always mentioned fruits prior to meats. As such, the Quran has more frequently mentioned fruits than that of the meats. The frequency and the precedence in mentioning of fruits, comparing to that of meat, show the importance and utility of fruit. From amongst the various fruits, the Quran has explicitly cited the names of eleven fruits. Top and distinguished among them is date with 21 times. One can be inspired by the importance and utility the Quran gives to fruits. It can be a small step forward to optimize our health and minimize expenses on the one hand and to move towards a pure and Islamic life-style on the other.

The existence of anti-scientific superstitions in the Quran, is indeed a sub-branch of a broader topic ‘the Quran and the dominant culture of the era of revelation’ which is primarily imported in the Quranic atmosphere by Orientalists but later on the Muslim intellectuals have followed the suit as well. The question at hand is whether or not the Quran is under the influence of dominant culture? [in other words, has the Holy Quran been passive or active towards the dominant cultural values of its time?] The current paper deals with Dr. Jaafar Nikonam’s views about the existence of anti-scientific superstitions in the Quran. According to him the existence of Jinn is a superstition that is dealt with in the Quran metaphorically and due to its polemic significance. But to the critics, Jaafar Nikonam’s theory seems inaccurate for its poor reasons and the wrong implications it entails. So, to accept the anti-scientific superstitions in the Quran, even in a polemic way, implies the fluidity of text connotation, reduction of part of revelational texts to unusable pieces of historical evidence, invalidation of the Quran, generalization of the very problem to the whole religion and etc. To the author, considering a great number of verses and the traditions related to Jinn, one can hardly deny the existence of Jinn. The only reason that has been put forth by the proponent is a mere assumption of improbability and that today’s empirical science could not prove such existents.

The article at hand is an attempt to introduce the works which are closely related to the interdisciplinary discussions of the Quran and politics. Many of the collected works are exegeses that have been written with political tendency whereas some are monographs that have dealt with one of the political issues in the light of the Quran. A few of the writings have delved into the ocean of politics and the Quran with an interdisciplinary method. Thus, the collected works can never be identical in terms of value and credit. The author has provided a brief explanation for every collected work to pave the ground for further interdisciplinary studies on Quran and politics. One of the necessities that a researcher needs to meet is to be fully acquainted with bibliography on the Quran and politics. The article follows a descriptive method.