One of the realities of life is the existence of natural phenomena such as good and evil. These phenomena are caused by a combination of material factors. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between human performance and natural disasters on the basis of the teachings of Islam. The research question is whether a causal and creation relationship is established between the behavior of human beings and the natural disasters in the world (both good and evil) of or not? As the necessity of the discussion becomes apparent in case the this relationship is proved, many religious practices such as praying for penitence to remove calamity, praying for the cure of the sick also referring to some events and disasters
yielding as a logical explanation for the performance of the community and in case of the absence of proof, all these actions or their absence are rational explanations. The current study is an original research of its kind.
First, searching for the keywords such as: performance, human, natural phenomena, divine blessings, doom, and so on in holy Qur’an, Shiite traditions, software of Jame Al-tafasir Jame Al-ahadis, articles and existing works on the data base of documents such as: noormags, sid, magiran, Isc., Preliminary data and relevant to research questions were collected.
Source: Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture
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