Strategies for Developing and Institutionalizing Chastity

Chastity and continence are moral values which have been emphasized in religious texts and have a significant role in individual and social health, on which happiness and perfection of individual and society rely. To be sure, if individual and society commit to chastity and continence, it will achieve happiness. In contrast, a society that does not commit to moral principles, including chastity and continence, will not achieve happiness. No doubt, religious texts have also drawn up strategies to develop and institutionalize chastity and continence in the society.The present paper investigates and explains modus operands to develop and institutionalize chastity and continence in Islamic society, using library method and documentary study.