Ghorban Elmi; Majid Naemi
Abstract
Hope is a crucial factor in human life and is an integral part of it. Its lack makes people hopeless and depressed, and consequently their normal lives stop. Without it, people will not try to survive and meet the needs of their lives. Divine Religions emphasize the importance and role of this human ...
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Hope is a crucial factor in human life and is an integral part of it. Its lack makes people hopeless and depressed, and consequently their normal lives stop. Without it, people will not try to survive and meet the needs of their lives. Divine Religions emphasize the importance and role of this human psychological characteristic and consider the despair of the mercy of God as a great sin. This study has focused on the meaning and place of the hope in the holy books of Judaism and Islam .There are several verses in the Quran that they revive the hope in the hearts of the faithful through God’s mercy and compassion. There are also verses that denounce despair and give hope to the faithful. In the Psalms, hope is also strongly emphasized as a vital factor in human beings. In the Psalms, there are several situations that when the tribe got disappointed, the prophets began to give hope to the people so that the people could get back to their normal lives. Moreover, this emphasis on hope is quite clear throughout the psalms.
abbas asrafi
Abstract
The servants of God usually, in places for praying, request Him to fulfill their material and spiritual needs, most importantly to protect them from harm and death. With a contrastive methodology, this paper aims at investigating the quality of praying in sacred books (the Old Testament, the New Testament ...
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The servants of God usually, in places for praying, request Him to fulfill their material and spiritual needs, most importantly to protect them from harm and death. With a contrastive methodology, this paper aims at investigating the quality of praying in sacred books (the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qur’an). It first focuses on the etymology of the word praying and then examines its status in different holy books. Then a brief comparison is made between different perspectives. According to the Old Testament, the place of praying is synagogue; in the New Testament church is the place for praying and in the Qur’an, mosque. The Old Testament emphasizes that the place of praying should be made of stone, be located in a high area of land and be the place for sacrifice. The New Testament focuses merely on believers and in the holy Qur’an the believers, the place and the time are all emphasized. Unlike the New Testament, the Old Testament has laid down some rules for entering the place of praying; the Qur’an has forbidden the unbelievers from entering the Holy Mosque. The Holy Mosque, with regard to its Islamic praying-social orientation, cannot be compared to any other place of praying; such orientation does not exist in Judaism and Christianity.
