Spiritual pleasures

Master's Thesis

Department of Hadith Sciences

Nahj al-Balagha trend

Abstract

Human-centered and oriented and motivated, he made his daily activities and programs enjoyable.

In this brief article, we have first defined material and spiritual pleasures. Then we have examined the pleasures in the words of religious elders and listed the imaginary pleasures. In the second part, cognitive and behavioral spiritual pleasures are introduced and some ways to achieve these pleasures are mentioned. The final broadcast of this article is devoted to the investigation of the factors of human deprivation from spiritual pleasures. Since cruelty of the heart is one of the most important factors of deprivation of spiritual pleasures, a significant amount of this section is devoted to the discussion of cruelty of the heart.

Key words: spiritual pleasure, cruelty of the heart, remembrance of God, crying, illusion of pleasure

Statement of the problem

One ??of the highest factors and roots of attracting people to religion and observance Divine orders and religious rulings and adherence to religious beliefs are the enjoyment of religion. Many religious evasions and even anti-religionists, if they know what indescribable pleasures are hidden in true religiousness, they will seek to adhere to and follow the orders of religion, because the root of many religious evasions and violating God's commands is the pleasure they get from abandoning the obligatory and doing the forbidden.

In this article, the types of spiritual pleasures are discussed and the ways to acquire and strengthen them are explained.

importance and necessity

Knowing the types of real spiritual pleasures, both cognitive pleasures and behavioral pleasures, is so important that it can increase the faith of piety and knowledge of religious people and spiritual people. That is, their steadfastness in the path of God's service, which is not a more important issue for humans than God's service, because the purpose of our creation was service and servitude: and we created the jinn and the jinn except for worship. He who falls in search of the sweet taste of spiritual pleasures, will certainly be on the bright path of God's service. If he is religious and out of the path of servitude, tasting the taste of spiritual pleasures will bring him lovingly and voluntarily to this path; And if he is a religious person, his status and rank will be higher.

Research questions

1- Is every pleasure a person feels spiritual pleasure? Is it true? Or do we also have imaginary spiritual pleasures?

2- How can we distinguish real spiritual pleasures from imaginary spiritual pleasures?

3- What are the types of real spiritual pleasures?

Research hypotheses

1- Any desirable feeling of peace, loving, being interested in enjoying it What is related to spiritual and divine affairs can be a part of spiritual pleasures. Provided that the owner of the Sharia has approved it.

2- Everything that a person thinks of as spiritual pleasure is not necessarily spiritual pleasure, like the followers of false religions who may also enjoy worshiping in churches and synagogues, or the pleasure of false leadership and the illusion of false asceticism.

3- By referring to the verses of the Holy Quran and the words of Ahl al-Bayt: one can distinguish real spiritual pleasures from spiritual pleasures. Khyali recognized.

4- Some of the real spiritual pleasures are related to knowledge, opinion and inner beliefs, and another part of spiritual pleasures are reflected in outward and physical behavior and actions. The first part is like faith, knowledge and love for God and the second part is like meeting religious brothers and the joy of prayer

Research background

As far as the research has been done, there has been no book, article or independent work written about this topic. But it has not been an independent effect.

Theoretical framework of the research

In this thesis, the definition of spiritual pleasures was first discussed, then the real spiritual pleasures and the factors of their emergence and increase are presented in two cognitive and behavioral sections.

Theoretical framework of the research

In this thesis, the definition of spiritual pleasures was first discussed, then the real spiritual pleasures and the factors of their emergence and increase are presented in two cognitive and behavioral parts, with the explanation that some pleasures are obtained by the principle of doing the action, and others require preparations to enjoy them.

Key Concepts

Pleasure

Any desirable and pleasant state that causes peace or happiness or joy of the heart is pleasure. Pleasure is one of those words that can only be tasted, like sweets that if someone loses their sense of taste, the concept of sweetness can never be explained to them.

Spirituality

Things that are related to immaterial, physical and worldly things and are rooted in divine and heavenly religions.

Imaginary pleasure

A pleasure that, although it brings a sense of peace, happiness and sweetness to its owner, but because God's religion does not approve it and does not accept it as worship and servitude, they are imaginary and not real, and they can be called illusion of pleasure.

Cognitive pleasure

Pleasure that goes back to the belief and conviction of cognition and the state of the heart, and in addition to the origin of their existence, they also have causes and contexts for their origin.

Behavioral pleasure

The series of behavior and deeds that we achieve in the shadow of those behaviors and observing the factors that create the pleasure of those behaviors. Like prayer, prayer is not necessarily enjoyable for every person who prays, and for many of Abandoning people is a duty, but there are ways to make this act of God's duty become the highest pleasure of life.

Words of Amir al-Mu'minin 7

In this article, an attempt has been made to express in most of the materials the words of Amir al-Mu'minin, in which it is mentioned that the act of righteous deeds is pleasurable, and in many cases from the enlightening hadiths of other Imams. Masoomin: It has been used.

Knowledge of God

Intellectual understanding of God is not possible, but innate and heart knowledge is not only possible, but it is inherent in all of us. If this knowledge increases in the human heart, it will bring an indescribable pleasure.

Love          

To love and be loved if it is on the path of God and his innocent guardians is one of the highest spiritual pleasures.

Abstract

Man has put the center and motivation of all his daily achieves and plans acquisition of pleasure.

In this brief written at first we have defined spiritual and material pleasures. Then we have studied pleasures in the great's words and considered visionary pleasures. In the second part, the spiritual cognitive and behavioral pleasures have been introduced and some approaches to achieve these pleasures have been mentioned. The final part of this writing has been allocated to studying factors of man's deprivation of spiritual pleasures, since cruelty is the most important factor of deprivation of spiritual pleasures, most of this part has been allocated to study the discussion of cruelty.