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education and happiness in the 3. Bentham has not prohibited
hereafter have been considered. any pleasures except those
that cause more suffering, But
On the other hand, there are in the Qur’anic verses, there are
differences and distinctions restrictions on the exploitation
between Jeremy Bentham's of pleasures, and not all
hedonism and pleasure in the pleasures are allowed. The
Qur’an, as follows: Qur’an forbids the harmful
1. Bentham has not mentioned pleasures of the human being.
the pleasures of the hereafter
and has only considered the 4. Bentham has criticized and
pleasures of the world; While forbade the concept of
from the perspective of the asceticism, which is one of
Qur’an, there are pleasures in the key concepts of all divine
the other world for humans religions, and considers it to be
and it is necessary to strive to against hedonism and increased
achieve the pleasures of the happiness. In the Qur’an and
hereafter and to be happy. consequently hadiths, asceticism
is introduced as a virtue.
2. Bentham emphasizes increasing
profit and happiness and 5. In addition to psychological
reducing unhappiness and harm hedonism, Bentham has accepted
without any qualification or moral hedonism and founded
restriction to his general rule; his moral school on it; But in
While the sense of ethical the verses of the Qur’an, there
conscience exists in all human is no misalignment between
beings, and this feeling is psychological hedonism and
confirmed in religious texts. moral hedonism.
