The Study of Spiritual Health Based on the Life of the Good Qur’an According to the View of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli

Since the Holy Qur’an is a book of life, it introduces a model of life called "Hayāt al-Tayyebah" (good life) to the human society in which the moral health and survival of human society are guaranteed. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the Qur’anic life model and explain its foundations from the perspective of Ayatollah JavadiAmoli.

This is library-based descriptive-analytical study. The required data were collected by searching the words life, tayyebah, hierarchy of life, spiritual health, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli in the Qur’an and religious texts.The authors reported no conflict of interests.

The results showed that Ayatollah Javadi Amoli as a prominent interpreter of the Holy Qur’an, according to the Qur’anic findings, has classified life into three types of tangible natural (animal), rational and real (good life). He does not consider animal life as a part of human life and introduces rational life as the first level of real human life and the good life mentioned in the Qur’an as the higher level of life. He proposes three approaches to achieving and realizing this model of life including ‘purification of wisdom’, purification of the "soul", and purification of self based on the Holy Qur’an and Islamic texts or narrations.

According to Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, people who wantto achieve peace and mental and even physical health, and are eager to live a balanced and transcendent life and seek to avoid mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, etc., should move in the direction of a good Qur’anic life. This Qur’anic life, inall its aspects, while having a preventive aspect against mental and psychological harms, also has a therapeutic and healing effect. The main feature of this life is the purity of the soul and the return to its true inner-nature (i.e., Fitrat).