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Authors: Mohsen Shiravand, Zahra Sarshoghi
Keywords: imagination, ethical imagination, Quran, Golden Rule
Abstract: The rapid and ever-expanding advances made in the realm of technology has made and is making the family members in all societies to become more distanced from one another due to lack of mutual understanding and force the individual to become illusive and self-conceit which leads to mental seclusion. In the last few decades, many researchers have run studies on the personal identity conjecture and destruction of solitude boundaries inspired by the golden rule with an emphasis on fellow-creature sense and abstention from moral blindness. The core of this rule lies in the imaginary ethics and awareness. An attempt is made here to assess the practical procedures in the Quran text in awakening imaginary ethics and distancing the illusion of pride by adopting a descriptive analytic method and resorting to renowned scholars' theories as to recognition of ego, recognizing the status of imagination and being lost in the realm of illusive imagination. Imagination in recognition of ego is one of the triad measures in conception, the middle stage of perception-conception
and intellectual conception. Healthy imagination will be accompanied with balanced and correct reasoning. Training imagination which is the source of enthusiasm and motivation will and both the ethical decision making and judgment is a jewel lost from the human treasury, thus loss of imaginary ethics. Lack of this training, due to the influence of unlimited sensual forces, would make the imaginative person to wander through any crypt, because the impulsive forces would make the illusion, responsible for minor conceptions,
to exceed its duties and occupy the throne of ego in the mind, the one responsible for major conceptions and thus issue orders for the minor issues and push one in the illusion and make him/her stray. Illusion surrounded by egotism would block realizing others' conceptions, prevent their becoming embellished and lead them to become self-centered and be confined in illusion. The holy Quran as the last word of God and the miracle of the last prophet, with its multidimensional features in recognizing human, beginning 1400 years ego, has been and is involved in providing practical procedures to make people aware, educate and train them concerning the individuals' imaginary ethical power. Quran training contribution is so rich that
in addition to scientific and divine prescription it provides practical and feasible means to promote the enthusiasm towards believing in the ethical imagination. All of this in its aesthetical sense is observed in the verses and the learned interpretations and rational sensitivities that lead to moral sensibilities and all there is to it. As to training and advancing, the concept of Quran teachings stimulate and awaken one and gradually distance him/her from ending in the realm of illusion and negative pride, while directing the same towards respecting the follow creation and promote the ethical imagination, thereof