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a sinking boat that can carry “Surely We have shown
only one person, the surgeon him the way: he may be
may believe that he is allowed thankful or unthankful”.
to throw the beggar into the (Qur’an, 76: 3)
water. In this case, the God has shown humanity
surgeon, by saving his own the path of salvation, and it is
life and using his medical up to them to decide whether
skills, will bring more to follow it or go astray.
happiness and prosperity to Some actions, even if they
most people than a beggar cause the greatest happiness,
who may or may not become do not align with the ethical
useful in the future. conscience and sense of
(Golestani, 2001: 16-18) humans, which are innate.
Criticism and analysis of
this issue is that the sense of 3. Ignoring the Pleasures of
ethical conscience exists in all the Afterlife
human beings and is part of Pleasure and pain come in two
their nature, though it may forms: Material and Spiritual.
vary in intensity and weakness. Some schools of thought
This feeling is confirmed in only see pleasure in material
religious texts and is one of matters, and based on their
the ways to distinguish worldview and philosophy,
between right and wrong. they do not appreciate a form
From an Islamic perspective, of pleasure beyond material
the fundamental principles pleasure; They also do not
and foundations of ethics consider happiness to be
have roots in human nature: anything other than experiencing
