The Effect of Female Modesty on The Cohesion of the Family and its Impacts on the Pure Life

Subject Areas : Morality

Mahya Hakakan ¹ (Islamic Azad University Tehran South Branch, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Tehran, Iran.)
Nafiseh Fayazbakhsh ² (Islamic Azad University Tehran Central Branch, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Tehran, Iran.)
Esmat Savadi ³ (Islamic Azad University Tehran West Branch, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Tehran, Iran.)
Mohammad Reza Shahroudi ⁴ (University of Tehran, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2022-01-27 Accepted : 2022-03-12 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Female modesty, Pure Life, Family cohesion,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to explain the effect of women's modesty on the cohesion of the family and its impacts on the pure life. The research universe was Islamic references related to modesty. The research sample was the concept of female modesty. The design of the research was descriptive-analytical. The data collecting was through library-documentary and the information analyzing method was based on the interpretation approach. In such a way that the connection between the concept of "female modesty" and the pure life via reviewing of the religious texts (verses and related narrations), the effects of modesty on the individual, family and the society were explained.  The results showed that the sacred center of the family could provide the ground for the cultivation of modesty if the woman as its main element was an objective model of modesty. In this case, the family would be strengthened and protected from collapse and other numerous damages. The modesty of a woman by strengthening   the family as the cell of the society led the society reaching to pure life. also. Women's modesty plays an effective role in the position of wife and mother, paving the way for individuals, families and society to reach a virtuous life and tasting the taste of a transcendental and pure life to the society. In fact, by adorning the woman and the family with the ornament of modesty, the society moves on the path of happiness and pure life. One of the main consequences of establishing the modesty is that the individual and the society reach a pure life as the best kind of life.

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