The Indexes of the Model for Confronting the Economic Problems in Islamic Lifestyle

In recent years, economic problems have increased in many parts of Iran, and one of the most important problems in many families is the way one should confront financial problems. The present study aims at designing the model for confronting economic problems in Islamic lifestyle. To do so, the key words of subsistence, aliment, and poverty in the Quran and the hadith books of Kafi, Bihar al-Anwar and Wasa’il al-Shi’a as well as the articles related to the key words of ‘sustenance’, ‘economic and financial problems’, and ‘Islamic’ were searched in the websites of Google Scholar, noormags.ir, and SID, and the parameters of the model for confronting economic problems were gathered and classified. This went on until the saturation of information. The findings of the research showed that the parameters of the model for confronting the financial problems in the Islamic lifestyle include enjoying the factors of increasing one’s sustenance, avoiding the factors of decreasing one’s sustenance, applying the spiritual problem-centered approach and the spiritual emotion-centered approach. The achievements of this study provide a proper context for designing a questionnaire for evaluating the styles of confronting economic problems with an Islamic approach. Besides, it facilitates designing and presenting educational packs for deepening the confrontation with economic problems based on Islamic lifestyle.