The Relationship Between Islamic Spirituality and Economic Development and Their Influence on Each Other

Abstract

The targeting of contemporary societies to achieve maximum economic growth Has had two serious consequences on the individual and social spiritual body of human beings. These include abandoning the spiritual dimension as well as trying to deviate, personalize, and use spirituality as a tool for economic purposes. Meanwhile, Islamic spirituality, with its principled, rooted and Sharia-oriented nature, is comprehensive in such a way that adherence to its principles not only does not block the path of economic progress, but also leads to revision of goals and better progress. In this research, using grounded theory, the relationship between Islamic spirituality and economic progress and the quality of their influence on each other have been investigated. The results show how the components of Islamic spirituality relate and affect the process of economic development in three foci: causal, intervening and contextual conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to first prepare the necessary platforms for the occurrence of the phenomenon by the background conditions, and in the next stage, by creating the conditions and using the intervention conditions correctly, the components of the strategy should be provided and completed. The total of positive spiritual elements presents the comprehensive strategy of “the lifestyle of the believers” to achieve economic progress in the path of excellence, growth and all-round happiness of man and expresses specific theoretical and administrative orders; On the other hand, by following the path of “secular life” and focusing on economic growth, the negative spiritual elements create dangerous consequences for mankind

Keywords

• islamic economics
• spiritual originality
• economic progress
• bio−faith
• islamic spirituality