Restrain and Chastity in Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Mysticism

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Heydar Amirpour ¹ , Ghasem Jafari ² , Samaneh Raameh ³ , Alireza Purbaferani ⁴ , Hasan Sheibanifar ⁵

1 - Faculty member of tehran Payame Noor University
2 - استادیار گروه فقه و مبانی حقوق اسلامی، دانشگاه پیام نور، ایران.
3 - دانشجوی دکتری رشته فقه و مبانی حقوق اسلامی، دانشگاه پیام نور، مرکز تهران جنوب، ایران.
4 - استادیار گروه فقه و مبانی حقوق اسلامی ، دانشگاه پیام نور، ایران.
5 - استادیار گروه فقه و مبانی حقوق اسلامی ، دانشگاه پیام نور، ایران.

Received: 2023-12-22 Accepted : 2023-12-22 Published : 2023-12-22

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Abstract :

In the practical realities of Muslims’ life, the lack of use of Islamic morality in speech and action is significant, and this deficiency distorts their personality and endangers their existence. Commitment to worship and its implementation through the recognition of concepts and examples of worship and closeness to the divine essence such as "restraint" and "chastity" sustains the life of Islamic society by creating balance and resistance to destructive temptations. In the following study, we discussed the verses of the Quran and critiqued the narratives related to piety and chastity. The research results indicate that restraint and chastity are important words in the field of jurisprudence and behavioral science of Islamic teachings and have a spiritual commonality with each other and under these headings different examples are placed. If jurisprudential knowledge includes visible acts such as prayer, zakat, remembrance, praise and supplication, the science of behavior and mysticism, related to intention, sincerity, trust, repentance to God, hope, fear, gratitude, patience, restraint, chastity, asceticism and purity and the other houses of conduct are for others and seekers of this path. These two titles refer to a form of abstinence and deterrence. The meaning of restraint and chastity in their instances will be different depending on the context and textual context in which that instance manifests. This study is descriptive-analytical.