affairs of family and community. The criticizing tone is also found in some traditions when women are put into the place of men.
Key Words: The Failure of Reason, Women's Intelligence, Validation, Hadith Scholarship, problematic Traditions.
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Components of Feeling Happiness in Hadith:
A Psychological Approach

Abbas Pasandideh

Mahmood Golzari

Abdolhadi Masudi

The present research study aims at determining the components of feeling of happiness. There is a question here: what is the meaning of happiness? What are the components of feeling of happiness? The researchers try to find the meaning of happiness using concept analysis. Then they look into the concept of happiness and related concepts through content analysis and rational analysis in order to find the components of feeling of happiness. The results of this study indicate that happiness is a combination of khayr (good) and surur (vivacity). Feeling of happiness is a combination of feeling of happiness and vivacity and in the next stage satisfaction itself is divided into more detailed components such as gratitude in pleasing events and tolerance in unpleasing events, propensity for obedience and aversion to sin. Vivacity is also analyzed in respect with worldly affairs and spiritual concerns.
Key Words: Happiness, Satisfaction, Vivacity, Gratitude, Patience, Propensity for Obedience, Aversion to Sin, Worldly Pleasures, Spiritual Pleasures.
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A Study on the Prophet's Invitation Letters

Zahra Nazemi

Mahdi Mehrizi

This research study focuses on Prophet's invitation letters with a general attitude of all the letters of invitation, such as, number of letters, the letters, addresses, key concepts and questionable texts. The present paper also deals with letters' longitudinal and transverse sources, Prophet's illiteracy, and philosophy of sending written message. In another part of this research, the author deals with frequency analysis of letters by years after the Prophet's divine mission, analysis of letters frequency by the audience, important components of letters, and their repetition. At the end of this writing, he