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The Compatibility of the Quran's Teachings with Progress and Economic Development Elements in Human Society
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Asmar Jafari   1, Mohammad Kazem Rahmansetayesh |
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Abstract: (3732 Views) |
| Today, the explanation of the role of Islam in the development of human society, particularly economic development, and the relationship between the teachings of the Quran and this dimension of development is one of the important issues of contemporary research on religion. The underdevelopment state of the majority of Islamic countries in the present era and the amazing advances of Western nations in all respects, particularly their economic development, has led some people to link the underdevelopment of the Islamic nations to their religious teachings and to consider the Quran to be the cause of this stagnation and lack of dynamism. The present research seeks not only to invalidate such a view, but using the verses of the Quran, to demonstrate that this heavenly book promotes and encourages economic development. This study does not seek to present an economic development model and system based on the Quran as we believe it is what the human science and experience is expected to fulfill. The study merely seeks to demonstrate that the Quranic verses are compatible with economic development factors. In this research, evaluating the important factors of economic development from the perspective of the scholars of this field, introducing the most important ones from among them, and comparing them against the Quran, we extract the verses which clearly refer to these indices and represent the correspondence between them and the Quranic teachings. The most important elements of economic development that have been extracted include ‘the development and prosperity of land’, ‘the role of man in the conquest of nature’, ‘labor and hard work’, ‘anti-pluralization and the fight against poverty’, ‘the prohibition on void economic dealings’, and ‘rejection of economic dependence’. |
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| Keywords: the Quran, economic development, compatibility, human society. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2018/08/21 | Accepted: 2018/08/21 | Published: 2018/08/21
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