This commentary while agreeing broadly with the points raised by the editorial by McKee et al, seeks to broaden and deepen those arguments. The commentary contends that unless we understand corruption as deeply embedded in and propping up systems of power differentials, we will not be able to design interventions that will tackle corruption at its roots. The commentary further points to the con...

quran is a book of guidance and one can achieve guidance with reference to it. but as qur'an is mostly concerned with generalities and details is left to the prophet (pbuh), to understanding quran it is essential to refer to the hadith of the prophet. but because of unlimited depth of qur'an, the prophet (pbuh) could not explain all the hidden meanings of its verses, so he saw it nece...

medicine is the science that has great religious value and its importance has been emphasized. the holy quran in many verses has proposed the issue of body and soul sanitary and treatment. some of the quran verses have considered the issue of prevention and treatment of diseases of the human body, and other categories, have discussed the prevention, and treatment of mental illnesses. using vers...

this essay will survey different views on the value and the status of woman in judaism and christianity and era of ignorance in jazirat al arab and then will turn to this subject according to the holy quran. in so doing, some of the most important doubts and suspicions concerning the high status of woman in holy quran have been surveyed by using the theories of some of islamic scholars and inte...

the relationship between objective realities of the time of revelation and impressionability or non- impressionability of revelation from that realities are of the important issues that raised many doubts and debates in recent century. undoubtedly, accepting the impressionability of the holy quran from the realities of that time could be considered as one of the fundamentals of the historicity ...

the concept of the quran miraculousness had undergone several stages before getting to its pinnacle in the fourth century. in the first stage – which took place during the first and second centuries – it cab be witnessed that the lecturers and scholars of the era have confessed their incompetence to compete with the quran, and the scholars and exegetes have left untouched the miracle-related is...

This paper represents a commentary to Marianna Fotaki’s Editorial: ‘Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ Within this commentary, I discuss some of the issues raised by Marianna Fotaki, and conclude that we should work towards an organizational culture which considers the important concept of compassion by focusing on the well-being and teamwork of all involved.

removal and hiding a part of the speech indicate to the brevity. not mentioning to the part of the sentence, which in some cases can be considered one of the sentence elements, is one of the most important topics that frequently seen in the quran. one of the omissions in the quran is elliptical answer of condition (shart). identifying the elliptical answer of condition in quran and guessing it,...