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mehran rezaee

mehran rezaee

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Theology and Islamic Sciences
Address: university of mazandaran
Phone: 011-35302608

Research

Title
Covid 19 and the issue of other people
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Covid-19, Islam, Self, Other people, Philosophy of Culture
Year
2022
Researchers mehran rezaee ، Eisa Mohammadinia

Abstract

Coronavirus is an important problem that has affected all over the world as an epidemic in various sectors such as health, social, economic and cultural issues. Religions and religious teachings were among the cases that were affected by the disease, as in other areas. One of the most important functions of religions during this era is the necessity of attention to the issue of the “other people”. Under this issue, the position of the individual in the community and his duties and rights in relation to the community can be reviewed. There is a question here that according to Islamic teachings and given the issue of self-love, how can we explore the issue of “other people”? At this time that the predominant issue of human society is self-love and everyone seeks his benefits to its maximum, one of the most important reasons for paying attention to other people is religious advices. These advices about others are divided in two parts; moral advice and binding religious orders. First, religious moral advices such as self-sacrifice and forgiveness, patience and tolerance towards people and helping each other in hardships are among the recommendations emphasized in religious teachings and in particular Islam. Also, “love and service to fellowman” being interpreted as a lasting good and verses of Quran that indicate social relations, are form those moral recommendations too. Even Islamic Persian mystics have translated worship into “serving the people”. Second group of Islamic advices are binding religious orders. In Islam, in addition to regarding value aspect of the teachings, in some cases they are presented in the form of binding orders. In a way that there are many Islamic obligatory and bindings rules that are about paying attention to others. Some of them are like Khoms, Zakat, The necessity of avoiding from violating the rights of the people and harming them. It seems that by adapting these cases to today's coronavirus conditions, various strategies can be adopted