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               42  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (28): 39-64, Autumn 2021

                      “Whoever acts righteously,            other  condition  for  it
                      [whether] male or female,             from  any  point  of  view:
                      should he be faithful, we             neither from the point of
                      shall  revive  him  with  a           the  race,  gender,  nor
                      good  life  and  pay  them            from     the   point    of

                      their reward by the best              position,    and    social
                      of what they used to do”.             rank.  In  the  end,  one
                      (Qur'an, 16: 97)                      infers  from  this  verse
                                                            that a man without faith
                  Meanwhile,  in  a  commentary             and  without  good  deeds
               of  the  Qur'an  by  a  group  of            is  just  regarded  as

               scholars,  the  summary  of  the             dead”.  (Faqih  Imani,
               explanation  made  about  the                1997, Vol. 8: 569)
               above-quoted  verse  is  given  as
               follows:                                 It is on this basis, therefore,
                      “This  verse  states,  as  a   that the present study  attempts
                      general  rule,  that  the      to examine the role of religious

                      result  of  the  righteous     faith   (Imān)     in    attaining
                      deeds  of  every  believer     prosperity  and  salvation  (i.e.,  a
                      and  in  any  form  that       goodly  pure  life)  in  this
                      they  are  performed  will     material    world     and     the
                      be  rewarded  with  the        Hereafter; so that a large number
                      best  scale  of  good          of  people,  particularly  the
                      deeds;       thus,     the     youths of this modern age who
                      criterion  here  is  'faith'   are under the influences of  the

                      and  the  righteous  acts      materialism could be liberated.
                      emerged  from  it,  and
                      therefore,  there  is  no
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