نوع مقاله: مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار پژوهشگاه علوم و فرهنگ اسلامی
2 استادیار دانشگاه شهید بهشتی تهران
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
Freedom in the Qur’an: Exploring Possibility or Impossibility
نویسندگان [English]
- Sharif Lakzai 1
- Najmeh Keikha 2
1 Assistant professor, Research Institute of the Islamic Sciences and Culture
2 Assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University.
چکیده [English]
Some people believe that freedom is a modern concept and there is no
track to be found in the Islamic texts concerning this concept.
According to these people, the freedom in the world today, has
originated from the thinking of the modern Western society, and it
has been absent in the Muslim community. Moreover, even if it is
assumed that it is possible to discuss the concept of freedom in the
Holy Quran, there is extreme scarcity in this regard in the Islamic
literature and teachings.Therefore, we cannot provide literature
concerning the issue of freedom and discussing freedom in such texts
as the Qur’an remains impossible. Meanwhile, there are other
viewpoints in this regard which state that it is conceivable to talk
about freedom in the Qur’an, without looking for counterparts
among the modern discussions. . On the one hand, the concept of
human freedom has always been the most important concept for
human being and therefore the most central text in Islam could not
be silent about it; on the other hand, if the meaning and purpose of
freedom is determined in the religious texts, we can reflect on the
religious texts and investigate aboutthe presence of the elements
and principles of freedom in the Qur'an. Freedom has been
considered as a modern phenomenon and an achievement different
from the former thoughts and world because the forms and
manifestations of freedom has changed but the theme of freedom
has always been important. The present article deals with the
possibility and impossibility of freedom in the Qur’an and tries to
discuss some of the main points in this regard.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- Qur’an
- freedom
- choice
- Khalif of Allah