نشریه مطالعات اخلاق کاربردی
سال سوم شماره 9 (بهار 1392)

This study investigates the role of Islamic ethical teachings on marital counseling Ethic differentiation from other Islamic teachings, the structure of ethical guidelines and methods and how they are used in the process of consultation are discussed in the study.The ethical guidelines have been extracted form Islamic texts through the method of Islamic Ijtihad which is based on the analysis of the content of the Islamic texts.Based on the findings of the study, ethical recommendations are organized in three different categories including: verbal relations with the spouse (honesty, respect, gratitude, gentleness, avoiding obstacles to effective dialogue and being a good listener) Nonverbal traits associated with the spouse (Good temperament, tolerance,forgiveness, compromise, understanding, financial patience and reliability) and self-focused traits (Justice, patience, care, self-audit, focusing on self-improvement and dedication to self). Also, it is expressed how to teach Islamic ethical values in the process of counseling through: Socratic questions, short training sessions, providing practical model of morality by the counselor and giving out assignments for after the session.

Expressing the divine revelations and religious precepts in an interesting and attractive form can greatly influence the way they are adopted by the human societies and lead them to salvation. However, the success of the sacred artist in performing such great task depends on his/her pure mind and imagination. As has been proved since the time of Socrates and Plato, the origin of art is imagination. This issue has also been discussed in details among Islamic philosophers. The founder of Mithal World in Islamic philosophy is Suhrevardi and later MullaSadra who elaborated on this issue. According to them, any symbol which arose in art is a symbol created in "the detached imagination" and offered by "the attached imagination" of the artist. Thus, depending on the artist's preoccupation, his imagination is trained and improved. In this paper, after a brief explanation about the nature of imagination (attached and detached), the role and stand of art from the perspective of Islamic philosophers has been discussed, then the relationship between the sacred arts and the purity of mind has been expressed in details.

Psychological and sociological attempts made by the Hegemonic System for removing the ethical norms of the Muslim families, is an issue which if noticed can affect the improvement of family morality and prevent from the collapse of family values among Iranians who claim to act as pioneers of having moral values in the world. Family has been selected by Hegemonic System because if family is controlled by this system, other sections of the society including politics and economics will be easy to control. In their view, the family is like the main castle which if conquered the capture of other castles and intended trenches will happen easily. Here, the relations between the couple, as the most basic element to form a family are of great importance. Relations before, during and after marriage, are among the objects whose destruction and removal from ethical concepts and Islamic norms, can lead to the destruction of the family. In this article we look at this phenomenon, especially in relation to the couple.

Islamic lifestyle in comparison with the one suggested by sociologists and psychologists is much more comprehensive. One of the aspects of the Islamic lifestyle is the one practiced by the infallible Imams regarding children training. The present paper aims at answering this question that what kind of influence the Imam's lifestyle can have on child training before and after birth. In the lifestyle practiced by the Imams regarding child training, before birth, they have referred to the elements such as, selecting a good spouse, having a qualified mother, eating acceptable foods and observing Islamic recommendations while having sexual intercourse, and after birth. They have pointed to breast-feeding of the child, performing the ritual called Aqiqa, saying Azan in the child's right ear and Eqama in his/her left ear, choosing a good and beautiful name for him/her, shaving child's head and then donating some gold to the same weight as his/her shaved hair, prayer, showing affection, educating them, teaching them the religious rules, playing, observing justice among them and avoiding discrimination.

In many verses of the Holy Quran, "good deeds" which are considered as a moral virtue, have been mentioned along with "faith in God" which is the condition for the acceptance of the deeds. Considering the frequency of the combination of faith and good deeds in Quran and the quality of placing these two factors together as well as the benefits gained through such combination can lead to useful consequences. Among the some 70 verses of the Quran where faith and good deeds are put together the issues of faith and the people of book, samples of good deed and rankings of the righteous believers are among other topics addressed in the verses.The main issue of this study is to address the benefits of integrating faith and good deeds, and the importance of faith in acceptance of deeds by God. The present study is especially important since Quran regards all the people except those who perform good deeds in loss, because based on the Quranic view only the deeds which can accompany faith will be accepted by Allah and as a result the deeds without faith or the faith without deeds not only are not accepted by God but also will be faced with the punishment of this and the next world. The reference commentary used in this study is al-Mizan and the method is librarydocumentation.

The importance of religious education for high school girls, has led to the application of many programs designed by the families, many of such programs, however, have not reached their predetermined objectives. This study, therefore, is aimed at investigating the problems found in the programs and then offering solutions extracted from the teachings of Imam Ali. To collect data for this study the descriptive-survey method was used. The research instrument used in the study is the questionnaire made by the author whose content and validity were confirmed by thesupervisor, advisor and several other professors The statistical population of this study includes all teachers of religious subjects and Arabic, consultants and religious advisors working in the fourth district of Esfahan education ministry during the academic year of 1389-1390. Based on the formula, a sample size of 85 people was randomly selected to complete the questionnaire.In this study, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to determine the reliability ofthe questionnaire with the scale of 9/0 and the analysis was done using statistical software spss-18 in both descriptive and inferential aspects. The results showed that the damage caused by all the family problematic factors (lack of cultural-theological base, economical problems, and emotional disorders) is above average.

Today, due to the common tendency of most human societies towards living in disparities, contradictions, confusion and worries, it is necessary for every individual to have self-consciousness about themselves as consistent, common, balanced and firmed beings formed according to the divine nature. There are, however, a few obstacles in this way such as lack of a shared cause and moving in a direction other than what human identity has been based on, negligence and oblivion and even moving in the opposite direction to the extent that their lives get controlled by evil tendencies and forces in a way that they consider everything except their unique nature "their Selves" and form all their efforts and goals around it. Therefore, the discussion of consciousness and its variants is discussion of human awareness of himself in all moments and levels. Also in this type of self-awareness we speak of a person who not only is capable of knowing his own being but in an ongoing efforts can distinguish myth and falsehood from fact and reality and in a clear and realistic view will catch a real and factual understanding of all phenomena and the way he should react appropriately towards them.