Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Saṭḥ (Level) 3 of Exegesis (Tafsīr) and Hadith Studies, Qur'an and ʿItrat Special School (Seminary), Khorasan Seminary (Ḥawzah ʿIlmīyah).
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Associate Professor, Department of Quranic and Hadith Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
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Ph.D. in Quran and Hadith Studies, Assistant Professor and Head of International Research Institute of Imam Reza, Al-Mustafa International University of Khorasan.
10.61186/qae.2021.392
Abstract
A faith community is a society where the spirit of faith and the teachings of the holy religion of Islam exists among the individuals, laws and practical obligations (orders) of that society. A faith community is also a society where the insights, tendencies and actions of people in all individual and social dimensions are at the disposal of religion and have a religious purpose. The concept of society in the Qur'an is used with terms such as Ummat (أُمَّة, community), creed (Arabic: مِلَّة, communion), nation, people (Arabic: قَوْم), tribe (Arabic: قَبیلَة), ʿAshīra (Arabic: عَشیرَة, kindred), clan (Arabic: طائِفَة), Qarn (Arabic: قَرْن, generation), Nas (Arabic: ناس, mankind), etc. People need to build a faith community in order to become a faithful society by relying on their attitudes, tendencies and behaviors. The criteria for a community of faith based on religious teachings can be achieved from the Holy Quran. This research has explained the effective features in relating people to the faith community by descriptive analytical method. Joining to the community of faith based on the Holy Quran depends on recognizing and explaining the effective features of insight such as faith in God, prophets, resurrection, guardianship (Arabic: وِلاَیَة, Romanized: Wilāyat) knowledge and intellect and effective features of tendency such as piety, Tawakkul (Arabic: تَوَکُّل, reliance on God), hope and recommend one another to patience (Arabic: تَواصی بالصَّبْر) and effective characteristics of action such as righteous deeds (good deeds), enjoining (what is) right and forbidding (what is) evil (Arabic: ٱلْأَمْرْ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفْ وَ ٱلنَّهْیْ عَنِ ٱلْمُنْکَرْ, Romanized: al-amr bi-l-maʿrūf wa-n-nahy ʿani-l-munkar, enjoin the right and forbid the wrong), justice, unity and Infāq (Arabic: الإنفاق, onation) in society.
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