Explaining Psycho-Spiritual Investment Based on the Holy Quran

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1 PhD student in psychology, instructor, Humanities Higher Education Complex. Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Islamic Humanities Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah University, Qom, Iran

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The present research aimed to elucidate psycho-spiritual investment based on the Holy Quran, employing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In the qualitative section, a religious-psychological inferential approach was utilized. The statistical population for this part comprised Quranic verses and related interpretive narrations. For the quantitative section, the statistical population consisted of expert specialists from the seminary of Qom with expertise in Islamic studies and psychology. The findings indicate that: a) Contrary to the view of psychologists, psycho-investment is bidirectional; b) Psycho-investment is explained within the framework of a monotheistic perceptual and spiritual system; c) The indissoluble link between this world and the hereafter, and the demystification of this world, leads to proper investment; d) This world and others, as the most crucial subjects of psycho-spiritual investment, facilitate an individual’s psychological transformation; e) Healthy investment fosters personality integration and the monotheistic unity of an individual’s psychological system, whereas unhealthy investment in self-created and transient supports threatens the integrity of the psychological system with psycho-spiritual conflict; f) Quranic teachings, by emphasizing the pivotal role of pure intention and righteous deeds in generating psycho-spiritual capital, impart an active and dynamic dimension to the concept of investment; g) An entity can serve as the subject of psycho-spiritual investment if it genuinely possesses attributes of perfection; h) God is the sole worthy subject for healthy psycho-spiritual investment.

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