An Investigation of the Religious Doctrines Influencing Spouse's Spiritual Health

One of the most important issues in Islamic educational system isthe development of well-balanced personality and spiritual health of spouses. The present paper which aims at extracting the religious doctrines which contribute to promoting the spiritual health of spouse's marital life.Usinga descriptive-analytical method, this paper aims at extracting the religious doctrines which contribute to prompting the spiritual health of spouse's marital life. Accordingly, some of the Qur’anic verses and traditions which prohibit certain relations and manners and recommend the manners that help promote and deepen spouse's spiritual health, have been investigated, their contents analyzed, and the religious doctrines classified. The research findings show that, according to religious doctrines, refraining from unconscious actions, wrong attitudes, weak emotional relations, undesirable behavior and the like help to promote spouse's spiritual health. Furthermore, spouse's acquaintance with the aims of marital life,natural and innate inclinations of spouses rights of each of them towards the other, positive and optimistic attitudes towards one another, acquisition of skills of marital relations, seeking to carry out religious duties and cooperating to draw nigh to God prepare the grounds for the spouse's spiritual health.