مجله سبک زندگی اسلامی با محوریت سلامت
پیاپی 3 (پاییز 1391)

“…but the real sector is what constitutes the text of our lives; in fact, it is the lifestyle that was introduced. This is the real and main part of civilization such as family, style of marriage, type of residence, type of cloths, pattern of consumption, type of foods, type of cooking, hobbies, handwriting issue, language issue, business issue, behavior in the workplace, behavior in the university, behavior in the school, personal behavior and etc. These are the main parts of civilization which consist text of human life. Social behavior and lifestyle functions are the interpretation of life. What is the purpose of life? The purpose that a person determines or considers, naturally in accordance with his personality, proposes him a new lifestyle” (1).A discussion called “lifestyle” is among the concepts that have dragged more attention of social sciences, sociology, and anthropology researchers in recent years. Also, because of “socio-cultural transformations” and “cultural invasion”, this issue has attracted the attention of most of the cultural managers, in the recent decade. As a brief definition, “lifestyle” is a phenomenon formed by “coherence and integration of different components which affect human life”. The supreme Leader of the Islamic revolution in his last trip to North Khorasan indicated that “premium Islamic lifestyle” is an important factor for new Islamic development and civilization, and by inviting special individuals, elites, and experts to provide a key concept, pathology and autopsy of the current Iranian lifestyle, and prepare strategies to reach the desired situation, stated that: “scientific, industrial, economic, and political development that form instrumental angles of civilization are the instruments to enhance correct culture and lifestyle, relaxation, security, excellence and real progress”. Emphasis of the great Leader on “Islamic lifestyle” is a meaningful and thought provoking emphasis. Hence, to get rid of the current situation, which is partly influenced by the teachings of foreign culture, and to reach the desired situation, his wise guidance should be investigated and analyzed accurately by social experts and theorists. This bitter reality should be accepted that previously a part of Iranian society was influenced by western lifestyle, because of unfamiliarity with the elements of Islamic lifestyle. But, by the grace of God, after the Islamic revolution and under the shadow of Islamic values and viewpoints, and spirit of national self-esteem, Iranian society was away from self-loss against the west and western values, by adherence to these man-made beliefs, and followed religious Leaders’ lifestyle. The difference between Islamic and western lifestyle is in the point that in Islamic lifestyle “world is the farm of hereafter”, whereas according to the western ideology, lifestyle has been built upon “humanism and hedonism”; therefore, it is in obvious challenge with the Islamic culture. Contradiction between Islamic-Iranian culture and civilization, and western culture and civilization is not an illusion, but it is a reality which has caused many fundamental changes in external and internal layers of Iranian society. Thus, it is noteworthy that visionaries and culture owners evaluate the receivables of the supreme Leader regarding lifestyle, sociologically and epistemologically, to enhance a benedict solution by defining and identifying the most important indicators. According to the Islamic lifestyle, the purpose of human creation is thralldom and servitude to God. Therefore, the lifestyle should pave the way for the context of this servitude. Islamic lifestyle means benefiting from “innocent life”, and expression of this innocent life depends on monotheistic “politeness” and “manners” entitlement. To achieve innocent life, Islamic-faith behavior should be conducted. The first station of conduct is to reach the peak of health, physical and mental relaxation, and to enhance it, it is necessary to adhere to any angels of religious teaching, especially in health. To reach the peak of health, rescue from unrests, and mental and physical stresses, the best fulcrum is to be under the shadow of “worship and praying”, and grab “the firmest tie” of “remembrance of God”: “Is it not with the remembrance of Allah that hearts are satisfied “. It means that a Muslim wants the world life for his hereafter life, and uses the occasions of the world life to enhance personal and social health and climb to the perfection of humanity. In Islam, use of material blessings to meet the basic needs is not only okay, but it is also a necessity for the survival of world life; but any excessive adherence and attention to the world life has been criticized in a way that Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: “the Almighty gives the world with the intention of hereafter, but refuses giving hereafter with intension of the world” (2). In Islam health has a high and worthy position. According to Islam, “health focused” lifestyle is an issue which can be evaluated and assessed from different angles. Health is one of the most important and fundamental issues of “Islamic lifestyle”, from physical, mental, and social angles. It is obvious that to achieve this important issue, as the supreme Leader has emphasized, culturalizing and teaching life skills should be given the priority. Accordingly, to codify “comprehensive plan of family excellence”, ministry of education has been obliged to include contents and skills of a healthy lifestyle such as character development andsocialization, personal skills, proper and easy marriage, noble families, raising good children and considering their evolution, with the cooperation of seminaries and ministries of health, cooperation, and culture and Islamic guidanceby considering appropriate religious, cultural, social, and scientific approaches along with cultural promotion, valuing, responsibility for the establishment and excellence of the family with respect to the psychological principles of learning in educational materials for all levels from school to university, through implementingthe document of fundamental transformation of education (3). Intelligent use of the capacities of family, development and empowerment of family along with enhancing moral and social health can be considered as an appropriate and adequate strategy for the current life difficulties, by taking advantage of religious teachings. These religious directions and recommendations can be applied as an affecting agent on maintenance of the current lifestyle of Muslims. The gist is that, “health focused” lifestyle is formed according to the Islamic and Quranic teachings; since upbringing religious and resistant man is not possible without emphasis on “health index”. With regard to this important issue, preservation of the capital named “health” is a value which should be planned to achieve by capacity building and modifying faulty and inefficient processes..

Context: Anxiety disorder is one of the most common psychological disorders. Today, many people are anxious because of encountering different problems. Continuation of anxiety may cause disruption in the continuity of life. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of herbal medicine in the treatment of depression, which is one of the anxiety disorders, from the viewpoint of Quran.Evidence Acquisitions: The present study is a library research. Data were categorized after studying and integrating the Islamic texts and medical science information regarding healing power of herbs. Then the results remained at the disposal of other researchers as a final report.

Discovering an angle of Quran and Ahl-e-bait sciences has opened another window to the researchers of the experimental science. Being aware of damages caused by chemical drugs, which have been resulted from experimental researches, the emphasis is on avoiding them. herbal medicine have made the treatment easy. In other words, new findings have passed through mere physical form and enhanced supernatural sciences.

Health is a religious value, and taking care of it is a responsibility of any Muslim. God has determined some healing agents for treatment. Healing herbs or herbal medicine are among these agents. In the current study by the help of Islamic texts and integrating them with new medical sciences, this healing power was introduced.

Context: Effect of sexual relations on mental and physical health has been the concern of the Iranian physicians, over a thousand years ago. Sexual ethics is one of the specific health topics of Iranian medicine archives. From the Iranian medicine point of view, because of different mental and physical differences in human, their sexual power and need for sex is different. It is necessary to observe the normal range, since the sexual indulgence causes different illnesses. Evidence Acquisitions: In Iranian medicine, different variables such as time, location, mental and physical situation, and also various forms of sex are discussed in sexual health. Safe sex not just reduces many mental disorders, but also prevents many neurological, digestive, urinary and genital disorders. Also, sexual indulgence is most harmful for health and causes stiffness, weakness and different diseases; therefore observing moderation in sex, according to the therapeutic characteristics and power, has been emphasized.

To have safe sex, it is necessary to consider time, mental, and physical status. Having sex when the stomach is full impairs digestion. Sexual relationship after heavy sports and severe emotional reactions such as anger or sadness, and after diarrhea or blood sampling is harmful. It has been recommended that having sex in temperate weather, and after evacuation of urine and feces, considering necessary arrangements, make the couple reach orgasm. Also, in the Iranian traditional medicine references, specific nutritional and health recommendations have been proposed for the sexually active people.

Health care recommendations of Iranian physicians involve precious and new points for the updated scientific communities. Scientific revision of these recommendations can be promising for public health improvement..

Why and how to live better are the most important matters which were and will be considered during human’s life time from the beginning of this world to the end. Every individual and community and scientific subject looks up this important matter from different points of view. They are goal of life, the safe life and its characteristics..

The matter of Islamic lifestyle is one of the most important matters which attract all the divine religions and even the human schools toward itself. All of the divine and human schools pretend to offer the best life style pattern. The humankind live in wonder in these disordered schools in parallel with the development of Technology. Islam, as the most complete divine religion offers the modern life style to humankind which is called the "Pure life". In this study, it is attempted to look at this matter from a point of view.

This research is done based on the library searching and documentation about the lifestyle and the pure life specially the verses and Revayah.

The fact is that human being got involved in modernity and technology and development and fall away the safe lifestyle which the human’s nature inclines toward it. Thus, in spite of the marvelous development of science, the human being suffers from various mental and physical diseases that were less or not before. We can benefit from the industrial civilization on one hand and live an optimum Islamic lifestyle in which the body and soul is healthy on the other hand.

The comprehensive scientific health pattern will be enduring in case of depending on the health-oriented Islamic lifestyle..

Today, man is aware that the consequences of his damages on nature, such as water, air and soil pollutions, are far more than the advantages which he takes. Therefore, he looks for a basic solution. According to the role of healthy environment in promotion and protection of mental and physical health, benefiting from the environmental ethics and proper behaviors in use of God’s blessings, which are a part of Islamic lifestyle, is an effective reply to current needs of man, because by implying and taking advantage of the Islamic lifestyle, environmental health is provided.

According to the importance of protecting the environment and the necessity of taking advantage of Quran as a book of human guidance, the present study was performed to evaluate the relation between God and universe, and its role in promotion of environmental ethics and improvement of lifestyle from the viewpoint of Quran, to competently deal with the environment, and provide examples from Quranic models of environmental ethics.

The present study was a descriptive-analytical survey. In the current study, careful consideration of the relationship between God and universe and its role in environmental ethics from the viewpoint of Quran was an applicable case and also the Quranic models of environmental ethics, which affect human lifestyle, were provided by evaluation of 46 versus of holy Quran.

Today, improvement and modification of human lifestyle to take advantage of the environment properly is one of the main concerns of the Islamic regime. The present study showed that according to the Quranic teachings, believing in God guarantees the observation of environmental ethics, and these teachings help man to stay away from actions which damage the environment, to get closer to God, and make friendly relation with universe through these actions. The man should be grateful for God’s blessings, and follow Quranic ethical models of facing the environment which leads everyone to enjoy from healthy environment.

From the viewpoint of holy Quran, knowing the creator and understanding its relation with creation system, is one of the duties of the caliph of God on earth. Advent of the models of environmental ethics needs religious and scientific supports, and enough knowledge about descriptions such as creator and creature, Lord and servant, owner and the owned, and feeder and the fed, because these models can have a direct effect on the promotion of environmental ethics, and improvement and modification of lifestyle. Especially if this knowledge has an approach toward the faith in God, it can help to protect man and environmental health.

The human being lives stressfully in the world full of hatred and enmity. We can replace the negative feelings such as anger, hatred and retaliation with positive feelings by pardon and forgiveness.

The aim of this study is to reflect upon the verses related to pardon and extract the points from these verses.

By studying the verses related to pardon reflectively and reviewing several related articles, various meanings, reasons, cases, techniques, the effects of pardon and the relationship between the pardon and good life have been extracted.

Pardon often means forgiveness. But in verse 219 of Al-Baqara Sure, and verse 199 of Al-Araf Surah, it means balance and moderation. Of the reasons and also the aspects of techniques of pardon, we can mention ignoring the human’s sins by God, forgiveness of God in spite of being the most powerful, kindness and being softhearted, trusting in Allah, and receiving the position of the patients. The cases of forgiveness include forgiving the unaware people, children and wives, granting the opportunity of reconstruction, pay the blood money, the oppression of others, ignoring wife by husband, retaliation, and financing (like giving and taking dowry). The effects of forgiving include benefitting from the kindness and forgiveness of Allah, his mercy, and friendship with human, receiving the position of the patients, the virtuous, the benefactors and repelling bad events. In some verses, the everlasting world is mentioned which suggests the relationship between the forgiving and good life. Considering the right forgiving is important. Forgiving is valuable while being in power.

One of the most important perceptions in Islamic culture is forgiving. By applying forgiving rightly in this blatant life, we can live in immunity..

Retirement is an important and turning point of the professional life and its effects on the postretirement life process can be studied from different angles.

The current study aimed to evaluate the psychological trauma in retired women, and provide an appropriate strategy to improve their mental health.Methods and Materials: The current study was a descriptive survey. Population under study included all retired personnel of the Army in 2011. In the current study, 535 women were selected from all retired personnel country wide in 2011 by cluster sampling method. The research tool was the 28-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-28).

The results of the current study showed that 50.5% of the retired women were normal, 32.9% suffered from mild, 13.8% suffered from moderate and 2.8% suffered from severe disorders in mental health total score.

Today, due to increased longevity, people still have many years ahead after retirement, which even in a long period of that have good physical abilities, psychological readiness and willingness for occupation and accepting occupational responsibilities. Besides increased longevity, decrease in the average retirement age also emphasizes on the need to evaluate the problems of this period of life, and the necessity of planning to prepare them to cope with retirement phenomenon and its post adaptation, especially living with the sense of usefulness and happiness. The results of the current study showed that the mild disorder has high prevalence among retired women. Hence, it seems that planning to find its relative factors and performing the integrative actions can be useful to prevent its progress to the sever disorder.

Dear Editor,The concept of parenting is one of the most important concepts in the modern psychology. This concept which was first expressed by john Bowlby (1907-1990) and Mary Ainswoth (1913-1999), shows that the attachment refers to an emotional tie between a person and another special person which attaches them together and continues over the time (1). Attachment causes that a child stays beside the caregiver and besides receiving enough care and increasing his chance of survival, explores the surrounding. In this field, psychiatrics, abnormal psychology and analytical psychology emphasize on the effect of primary experiences of the child relationships on the survival of adaptive and maladaptive aspects of personality (2). If the caregiver does not pay unconditional attention, protection, care, and love to the child, in addition to failure in creation of proper attachment between the child and mother, which affects adulthood relationships, causes mental disorders such as depression (3), borderline personality disorder (4), and attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity (5) during adulthood and childhood. Researches also stress the importance of attachment during embryonic period, and indicate the attachment as an agent affecting development of stress coping system in right hemisphere, that operates under the level of consciousness (2). Although attachment affects different angles of mental health, it is of great importance to try to find better ways to enhance it. On the other hand, many religious teachings have emphasized on the relationship between mother and child. For example, the Holy Prophet (SAW) in a hadith stated that:” love children and give them the love” (6). This teaching of the holy Prophet directly points to giving love to the children. In this regard, Imam Sajjad (AS) stated that:” but the right of a child is to love him, educate and train him, forgive him and ignore his childhood faults, be kind to and help him, because this is the cause of repentance, tolerance, not to provoke him and it is also the shortest way for his growth” (6). This hadith is completely compatible with the theory of attachment that emphasizes on the unconditional love and attention. The point which has been neglected in this area is to study this field according to the religious teachings. For example, one way to create attachment between the mother and child is the breastfeeding of the child in the first hours of birth and then after. Different studies have shown the effect of attachment on mental health (7-9). In this regard, the Holy Prophet (SAW) also stated that:” No milk is better for children than their breast milk” (10); a few studies have been performed to evaluate the compatibility of relation between these religious teachings and scientific results. Hence, conducting and promoting similar studies, especially studies which are compatible with the Islamic culture and lifestyle, is needed..