The Psychological Impact of Quranic Stories and Parables: A Contemporary Study in Crime Prevention and Social Reform

Abstract

The Holy Quran is a divine revelation, it is a means of nearness to God, it is a recipe for the eternal world, it is the source of all knowledge, it is a collection of guidance, a treasury of mercy and a source of blessings, it is a constitution that can be followed to solve all problems, it is a light that can dispel all the darkness of misguidance, it is a path. It is a system of reform and training that leads directly to the pleasure of Allah and Paradise, which purifies man and makes him ideal. It is a tree under whose shade the heart feels at peace. The Holy Quran is the comprehensive and multi-topic book of the world, which contains the solution to the problems that arise in the world. Among these topics are Quranic stories and parables, through which the Quran has played an important role in combating crime and reforming society in the modern era. Al-Qasas in Arabic means to follow the signs. It is called Qasas Atharah, meaning I followed its signs, and Qasas Masdar. The Holy Quran adopts different psychological approaches to understanding divine teachings and commands. Sometimes he adopts the style of narration of a story, sometimes the style of narration of encouragement and exhortation, and sometimes the style of analogy and metaphor. The purpose of this change in style of narration is to fully embed the facts and meanings, the commands and decrees, in the minds and hearts. The stories and parables of the Quran reveal the psychological effects of religious crime prevention, showing how Allah destroyed and annihilated nations that practiced kufr and polytheism. Moreover, He placed their religious crimes before us so that we could be psychologically trained and avoid the crimes that those nations were involved in and destroyed. Through the stories and parables of the Quran, we learn lessons about preventing social crimes. History is a witness that when the evil deeds of a nation exceed the limit, God's mercy and law first give it time to reform itself. If he does not change his ways even then, the law of God's punishment for actions comes into play and in addition to the punishment of the Hereafter, he is thrown into humiliation and degradation in this world. In the stories and parables of the Quran, social crimes have been repeatedly rejected from a psychological perspective because social evils, i.e. social crimes, become a scourge for society. Every society has a constitution according to which people live their lives and conduct their daily affairs under these principles. The stories and parables of the Quran have fostered the sentiments of paying Zakat and Sadaqah, taught mutual love and compassion, and granted the knowledge of God, and through this one is blessed with inner light, whereas the nations whose destruction is mentioned in the previous nations are deprived of the divine light. Quranic stories and parables taught society to be grateful for the abundance of blessings because when evil deeds increase, this darkness also increases. Quranic stories and parables instilled in the mind a hatred for social crimes because the Quran shows that the Children of Israel did evil upon evil and the effects of these evil deeds are as followsThe stories and parables of the Quran provided insight into the identification and remedy of social crime and paved the way for repentance, whereas when the Prophet Israel and the disobedient nations sank so deeply into the mire of sin, the very concept of sin disappeared from such a society.

Keywords: Stories from the Quran, proverbs from the Quran, psychological effects, crime prevention, social reform, psychological effects of the Quran