Religious Purposes Theory and the Mothering Mission

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Authors

1 Assistant professor at Tarbiat Modares University

2 Associate professor of Tarbiat Modares university

3 MA of women’s studies at Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract

Mother is the center of union in family and has a root position in nature, so that creation and nature is stablished upon it and this existence does not change; so based on the root position of mother, God has decreed for her a certain dignity and in its general aspect, God has renounced losses and reluctance from her. On top of all religions, Islam has a special attention to mothering. Although religious texts are based on teaching and general principles of mothering, contemporary society has a tangible need to review mothering position and its effects in micro-level religion patterns in order to provide accessible patterns. The main question of this paper concers the mothering mission in sharia and whether this mission could be categorized in this domain and the centeral point of this mission is based on what factors. In order to answer these questions, we studied the mothering position and mission in sharia and provided mothering mission in three levels (macro, mid and micro-level). So, in the first part we studied sharia intentions and in the second part the relationship between this approach with mothering is studied. The result of this paper was that motherhood of women is placed in the paradigm of  their capabilities, and this is pure justic that woman on her physical characteristics becomes mother, also mothering purity in the protection of five interests is the central point in Islamic and sharia intentions approach, because mother is divine trustee and has unique and worth position in maintaining family cohesion.

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