‘Raising Hope’ in Quran and psychology

dc.contributor.authorShirvani, S.M.H. (Seyed)
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T14:11:38Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T14:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-22
dc.description.abstractThis article, through a comparative study, aims at defining and analysing the concept of hope in the Quran versus psychology. The study defines common and differential grounds in the area, and suggests a proper approach for establishing and boosting hope in people based on the Quran’s lessons. One of the noticeable results of this study is that many of the techniques for creation and improvement of hope are already present in the Quran, and that there are many shared grounds between findings of civilisations and the Divine teachings. It was found that both psychology and the Quran both view hope as a rewarded patience along with action to achieve one’s goal, and both fields concur that knowing one’s goal and obstacles can preserve hope in man. Some differences were also found. In contrast to psychology, hope in the Quran is based on the goal behind human creation and in line with its perfection, whose sole basis would be faith in God. Also, in psychology the techniques proposed for hope improvement are individual for the most part, whereas the Quran aims at proposing behavioural approaches in societal scale in addition to individual solutions.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentScience of Religion and Missiologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationShirvani, SM.H., 2018, ‘”Raising Hope” in Quran and psychology’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 74(1), 4828. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v74i1.4828.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v74i1.4828
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/67101
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectQuranen_ZA
dc.subjectHopeen_ZA
dc.subjectPsychologyen_ZA
dc.subjectDivine teachingsen_ZA
dc.title‘Raising Hope’ in Quran and psychologyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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