Spiritual Health in the light of Religious Principles and Its Function
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 11 No. 3 (2025),
11 Aban 2025
,
Page 134-148
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v11i3.44244
Abstract
Background and Objective: Having health in various areas, especially spiritual health, is a religious and rational necessity. The goal of religious teachings, especially jurisprudence, is to achieve health in the physical and spiritual dimensions. The present study aims to examine the sources in order to determine the foundations and their role in achieving spiritual health based on the Quran, Sunnah, consensus, and reason, with an emphasis on jurisprudential propositions.
Methods: This study employed a descriptive-library research methodology to systematically collect and analyze data pertaining to religious foundations, authoritative Islamic sources, spiritual health, and jurisprudential propositions. Data was gathered through a comprehensive review of relevant religious texts and scholarly works relying on jurisprudence, foundational principles, and ethical guidelines published in Arabic and Persian. In addition to examining primary sources such as the Quran and hadith literature, interpretive software was utilized to aid the analysis. Furthermore, a search of domestic and international peer-reviewed journals was conducted to incorporate relevant published articles most germane to the research topic. The authors reported no conflicts of interest.
Results: The results showed that health in the view of religion is divided into two dimensions: physical and spiritual. The spiritual dimension is designed to achieve spiritual health and the formation of afterlife health from the context of worldly happiness. The theme of both dimensions of health is the necessary preparation and coherent movement to achieve victory, prosperity, and eternal salvation. Religious teachings such as prayer and fasting have considered ensuring spiritual health based on human dignity, trustworthiness, good and bad, caution, and interests and corruption. In light of these principles, various functions have been formed such as increasing the threshold of tolerance and resilience, reducing intellectual tensions, optimizing brain function, well-being, and adapting to stress, and supportive behaviors.
Conclusion: Religious principles have a significant capacity to ensure and develop spiritual health. Enjoying spiritual health not only removes a person's negative attitude towards performing obligatory and recommended acts, but also leads to better spiritual readiness to perform obligatory acts, abandon forbidden acts, and even abandon abominable acts and perform recommended acts in order to enjoy happiness.
- Eternal happiness
- Jurisprudential propositions
- Religious sources
- Religious foundations
- Spiritual health
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