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Islam rejects excessive hope or excessive fear, describing both as a “pseudo”-type, which would respectively contribute to self-deceit and despair, and end in spiritual decline.
- Fatemeh Bahmani, Mitra Amini, Seyed Ziaeddin Tabei, Mohamad Bagher Abbasi
- 2018
- How The Qur’an Redirects The Emotions of Fear and Hope
- Study Limitations
- Study Implications
- Further Research
The above analysis has illuminated that the elicitation of hope of God’s mercy and fear of God’s wrath in the Qur’an is concordant with the different psychological, biochemical, and neurological processes that undergird these emotions. But to what end does the Qur’an elicit these emotions? The foregoing has adequately shown that the Qur’an employs ...
A study of this nature cannot be completely liberated from the subjective inclusion of terms. This has been mitigated, as much as possible, by selection of the same terms by independent scholars and Arabic specialists as well as the imposition of stringent criteria for the inclusion of terms (see the Appendix). A more serious limitation may be the ...
This study has shown how the Qur’an elicits hope and fear in entirely different ways. It builds on and explains a previous study which concluded that Qur’anic comprehension produced a statistically significant positive effect on the mental health of Muslims (Shafiei et al., 2011) in a quantitative way. Yet the quantitative analysis reveals a far mo...
In addition to the practical studies that need to be conducted in order to decipher how the elicitation of hope and fear in the Qur’an plays out in the lived reality of Muslims, there are a number of theoretical studies for which this paper could also be a basis. This study considers the Qur’an as a whole and the terms that elicit either hope or fe...
- Ismail Lala
- lala.i@gust.edu.kw
The Muslim must both fear Allah's wrath and hope for His mercy. The fear that has been commended is what keeps one away from the things forbidden by Allah. But when fear exceeds this limit one is likely to lose hope and despair. True, praiseworthy hope, on the other hand, is what helps one obey Allah in
“Islam: a Companion Book” is a factual book about Islam and its doctrines, it is distinctive in its approach, and it is determined enough to deal with the old new misrepresentations about Islam.
Sahih Muslim is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naysaburi (rahimahullah). His collection is considered to be one of the most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ), and along with Sahih al-Bukhari forms the "Sahihain," or the "Two Sahihs."
Nov 9, 2020 · Following are some Quranic verses and a hadith that reflects the Islamic view about "Hope." …And whosoever fears Allah…He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.
Mar 29, 2010 · The average human being in the developed world battles sadness and worry on a daily basis. While the majority of the world’s population confront extreme poverty, famine, conflict and despair those of us privileged to lead relatively easy lives must tackle fear, stress, and anxiety.
