Islam va Pazhuheshhaye Tarbiyati

One of the most important topics of Qur'anic studies is a ‘deep spiritual connection with the Qur'an’. This research was conducted to analyze the students' understanding of the factors of having a deep spiritual connection with the Qur'an and its effects. Using a phenomenological approach in this research, I tried to reconstruct the meaning and extract the categories of the students' understanding and evaluation of the factors of ‘human deep spiritual connection with the Quran’ and its effects. Data collection was done using open-ended questionnaires and interviews. Seventeen students were selected, from Kerman province students as a research sample, according to the principle of theoretical data saturation, in the academic year of 1401-1400. The results were analyzed based on the views of Creswell (2012) and Catherine Carter (1993). Considering the three categories of personal, familial and social learning, the results of the effective factors in students' deep spiritual connection with the Quran are as follows: individual category includes the subgroup of supernatural factors, service to society, personal interests, satisfaction of needs and reward in the afterlife; familial category includes the factors of encouragement, advice and companionship of the family and its dominant atmosphere; and the social category includes the factors of teacher, friends, mass media, mosques and Quranic meetings. In addition, emphasizing on the three factors of knowledge, attitude and behavior, I have explained the effects of having a ‘deep spiritual connection with the Qur'an’ on religious, moral, scientific, emotional and social education, as a stable and mutual relationship.