A Description of Comforting and Disrupting Factors in the Family as per the Quran

Abstract

Producing tranquility is one of the most important functions of a family. As a set of comprehensive and eternal guidelines for human life, the Quran gives certain teachings regarding the production of tranquility in the family system. This research was carried out to produce a description of the factors that produce tranquility and eliminate tranquility in the family as per the Quran with the descriptive-analytical method. For this purpose, all the Quranic verses of the Quran and its expressions and teachings regarding factors related to tranquility in a family in the verses and narrations were studied in several stages. After the breaking down and analysis of the data, 242 open codes, 45 subfactors, and 13 main factors (the spouses being clothing for each other, closeness, affection, mercy, good association, management of boundaries, fulfillment of primary needs, economic welfare, the gender-based distinction of roles, referring to expert and trustworthy counselors, intellectual and sentimental growth, psychological well-being and faith) were identified. Some of these factors were the preparatory factors of tranquility and some were the manifesting factors of tranquility. Paired creation and gender-based distinction along with intellectual and sentimental growth and psychological well-being cause the spouses to assume their roles duly, to manage the economy and boundaries of the family properly, and to avail the minimum required tranquility through the fulfillment of primary needs. At a higher level, when the spouses are clothing for one another and they cater to each other's sexual and sentimental needs, they experience the tranquility of a higher level, they attain closeness and by having a good association with each other, they experience relationships based on affection and mercy and with tranquility. At a yet higher level, faith in God avails even deeper tranquility for the family.