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Pleasure from the Perspective of… A. Ghanbarian & A. Asgari Yazdi (115
Therein are rivers of water book, “An Introduction to the
that does not alter, and Principles of Morals and
rivers of milk the taste Legislation”, to explaining
whereof does not change, them. (Ref: Bentham, 2017:
and rivers of drink 6-29)
delicious to those who The key word love and its
drink…”. (Qur’an, 47: 15) derivatives are mentioned in
84 verses of the Holy Qur’an.
- “White, delicious to those In these verses, love is used in
who drink”. (Qur’an, 37: 46)
three meanings:
Describes the paradise - In most of the mentioned
promised to the righteous, which verses, it means liking or
includes rivers of pure water, loving. (Ref: Qur’an, 9: 24)
rivers of milk with an unchanged - In a few verses, it means
taste, and rivers of pure wine seed. (Ref: Qur’an, 2: 261)
that pleasure the drinkers.
Jeremy Bentham has not - In some other limited verses,
used the key word love in his it means preferring something
works. The main and most over something else. (Ref:
central key words for Qur’an, 9: 23)
Bentham's moral foundation
have been pleasure and pain. In the Qur’an, when it
These two concepts were so comes to worldly pleasures,
important to Bentham and the word pleasure is not used,
influential in his moral system and in most cases, the word
that he devoted the first five ornament )Zinat( is used
chapters of his most famous instead. (Abbasipour, 2018: 92)
