Quranic Guidelines for Family Peace
What solutions does the Quran propose for achieving family peace and tranquility?
The Quran suggests several approaches for achieving family peace, including mawaddah (affection) and rahmah (mercy), which mean loving and showing kindness to one another. Other Quranic recommendations include achieving perfection together, economic well-being, and finding peace of heart through remembrance of Allah.
The Quran identifies achieving tranquility as the main purpose of marriage and family formation: ﴾And among His signs is that He created for you spouses from among yourselves so that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy.﴿(Rum:21) Marriage should bring peace to both spirit and life.[1]
Peace of Hearts Through God's Remembrance
Families and society can attain peace through the remembrance of Allah: ﴾أَلا بِذِکْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ؛ Indeed, it is in the remembrance of Allah that hearts find peace.﴿(Ra'd:28)
Love and Affection
In Quranic culture, woman's role is portrayed as a manifestation of divine beauty in human form.[2] The Quran expresses the peace and comfort of men and women through mawaddah (love) and rahmah (mercy): ﴾And among His signs is that He created for you spouses from among yourselves so that you may find tranquility in them, and He placed between you affection and mercy.﴿(Rum:21). Tafsir Nemooneh interprets "mawaddah" and "rahmah" as the connecting point between human society.[3] Mawaddah in this verse means loving one another, while rahmah means showing kindness to each other.[4] This divine mawaddah and rahmah are distinct from the instinctive male-female attraction that exists in animals.[5]
Achieving Perfection Together
The Quran views family peace in terms of husband and wife achieving perfection together: {{quran| هُنَّ لِباسٌ لَکُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ لِباسٌ لَهُنَّ |translation=They are garments for you, and you are garments for them.|sura=al-Baqarah|verse=187}
Covering each other's faults, being confidants, protecting each other from harm and impurity, being sources of peace for each other, bringing variety to life, and being compatible in various aspects of life like garments are all factors that establish family peace and comfort.[6]
Economic Well-being
Economics plays a fundamental role in strengthening family foundations. The Quran has embedded sound economics into the family structure. Topics such as mahr (dowry) and emphasis on its payment[7], providing for living expenses[8], attention to orphans' wealth in marriages[9], consideration of legal shares of men and women in inheritance[10], attention to women's economic independence[11], evaluation of orphans' economic maturity before transferring their inheritance[12], treating orphans' inheritance as a heavy trust[13], and other economic discussions are addressed in the Quran.
References
- ↑ Qarā’atī, Muḥsin, Tafsīr-e Nūr, Qom, Mu’assasa-ye Dar Rāh-e Ḥaqq, chāp-e awwal, 1375 sh, j 4, ṣ 255.
- ↑ Javādī Āmulī, ‘Abdullāh, Zan dar Āyīna-ye Jalāl wa Jamāl, Tehrān, Nashr-e Farhangī-ye Rajā’, chāp-e dovvom, 1371 sh, ṣ 37.
- ↑ Makāram Shīrāzī, Nāṣir, Tafsīr-e Nemūna, Tehrān, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1374 sh, j 16, ṣ 392.
- ↑ Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, Sayyid Muḥammad, Tabīyīn al-Qur’ān, Bayrūt, Dār al-‘Ulūm, 1423 q, ṣ 418.
- ↑ Javādī Āmulī, ‘Abdullāh, Zan dar Āyīna-ye Jalāl wa Jamāl, Tehrān, Nashr-e Farhangī-ye Rajā’, chāp-e dovvom, 1371 sh, ṣ 40. ; Afrūz, Ghulām‘Alī, Hamsarān-e Bartar, Tehrān, Anjuman-e Awliyā wa Murabbiyān, chāp-e awwal, 1377 sh, ṣ 32.
- ↑ Afrūz, Ghulām‘Alī, Hamsarān-e Bartar, Tehrān, Anjuman-e Awliyā wa Murabbiyān, chāp-e awwal, 1377 sh, ṣ 46, 60, 179.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 4, 19, 21.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Baqara, āya 233. Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 34.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 2-3.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 33, 176.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 32.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 6.
- ↑ Sūrat al-Nisā’, āya 9-10.