Quran's Emotional Training Solutions in order to Strengthen Self-compassion

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1 Assistant Professor, Mashhad Holy Qur'anic Sciences and Education University (Corresponding Author)

2 PhD in Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

"Self-compassion" is a fundamental moral virtue in the field of self-communication that helps a person in facing crisis, failure and suffering, and in the last two decades, psychologists have paid a lot of attention to it. On the other hand, the Holy Qur'an has many verses about the creation and promotion of this virtue, which have not been extracted so far and can be considered a big step in the development of existing educational studies. Psychologists have proposed special therapeutic approaches based on self-compassion; however, the Qur'an educational program can be searched in three areas of cognition, emotion and behavior. The issue of this research is to extract its emotional solutions as the middle layer of the Qur'anic education system with an analytical method. By examining the self-compassion verses, seven emotional-psychological components were obtained: connection to the center of existence, enrichment of the soul and exaltation of desires, gratitude, patience, hope for compensation, kind acceptance and negative emotions control (keeping calm). Compared to existing psychological approaches, these emotional solutions are more comprehensive, perfect and reassuring, and they have benefited from the richness of monotheistic psychology features such as faith in God, repentance, resurrection and eternal life.

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