A comparative study of meaningful life, from the perspective of Islam and positive psychology

Abstract EN

One of the basic issues in the Islamic worldview, which recently appeared discussions the in of modern positive psychology, is the favorable explanation of the meaningful life, which perpetuates the value, the motivation, hope and struggle in life.

so, this research was compiled with the aim of comparing the meaning of life from the perspective of Islam and positive psychology and after explaining the concept of meaningful life, by choosing three key components such as bliss, happiness and hope, explained them with descriptive- analytical method and comparative comparison and their communication has been done in these two areas.

The findings of the comparative comparison of meaningful life with regard to two indicators of value and objective- oriented positive cognition state that due to the type of general, principled, divine and value- oriented view of Islam and the objective, experimental, subjective principles and humanism of positive psychology, despite of countless similarities and a close relationship between the two fields they have differences in levels.