The Quranic Teachings Concerning Humanities and Social Sciences

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Kharazmi University, Tehran

10.22081/jti.2023.67611.1046

Abstract

The Quranic teachings concerning humanities and social sciences have their own applications and significant. In fact, The Qur’an as a divine, revealed and comprehensive book has unique teachings for taking human mundane and spiritual happiness through giving applied and social teachings which are immortal, universal and global. It gives us many transcendent teachings regarding our understanding of ourselves, God, the world, the Day of Judgment and other social facts, and by introducing social laws, shapes our social behavior and thinking. The Qur’an shows us the universal laws of happiness and adversity, the result of justice and oppression, developments and decline, victory and fall, and the result of social dealings. In addition, it helps us to recognize the mechanism of social events and the cause of social developments.

By rethinking the Quranic teaching pertained to the social life of human being, in this research, I try to show the importance of social aspects of the Qur’anic teachings and their importance and functions in human’s social life, hence we infer some social laws of the Qur’an which help us in developing social sciences and humanities. In fact, this research indicates the importance of understanding and using social teachings of the Qur’an in human life and related sciences in order to help social researchers to use them in their social investigations.

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