The Role of Intention in Spirituality in Terms of Islamic Texts and Positive-oriented Psychology

Authors

  • Zahra Sharaf al-Din
  • Mohammed Hassan Rostami
  • Abolfazl Ghaffari

Abstract

Spirituality and its relation to positive thinking and creating inner peace and satisfaction in humans is one of the most important topics in the field of Islam and psychology. The diversity in motivations and approaches and objectives in evaluating spirituality concept led to different interpretations in its fact and roots and its results. The aim of this study is to determine "the role and impact of intention in the realization of spirituality in Islamic texts and positive-oriented psychology". In this paper, at first we talk about the concept of intention and spirituality and their similarities in two vision and then differences of considered goals in intention and spirituality, their consequences in creating true peace were explained. Later it was determined that first, in comparing intention and spirituality in Islamic texts and positive-oriented psychology, good catches of divine pleasure and happiness of God as the highest and best purpose in absolute perfection defined in Islamic texts and the deepest and most influential components in reaching true peace and unique factor in the flexibility and resiliency of humans. And secondly, positive-oriented psychology in their evolutionary process does not necessarily need to benefit from the substantial knowledge in the field of ontological and anthropological principles. The method of this research is evidence-analysis.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s2p15

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Published

2016-05-30

How to Cite

The Role of Intention in Spirituality in Terms of Islamic Texts and Positive-oriented Psychology. (2016). Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 7(3 S2), 15. https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/9174