©2019 ASP Ins., Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute, Iran ISSN: 2251-6166: Journal of Quran and medicine, 2020:5(2): 42- 58 Reanalyzing the Concept of Positive Thinking in the Teachings of Imam Ali in Order to Present Educational Implications and its Validation ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article Type Analytical Review This study seeks to investigate the concept of positive thinking in the teachings of Imam Ali (as) in order to provide educational implications and its validation. The present study is a qualitative research that has been done using thematic analysis method and based on inductive approach. The field of this research included all written and digital texts and documents related to the teachings of Imam Ali (as) using a purposeful approach. In data analysis, thematic coding method was used to remove additional and common codes and three columns under the following headings were categorized which were basic themes (codes and key points of the text), organizing themes (themes obtained from combining and summarizing basic themes) and global themes (super-ordinte themes containing the principles governing the text as a whole). Then these themes were drawn in the form of website network maps and the prominent themes of each of these levels and the relationships between them were shown. The results showed 350 basic themes, 4 organizing themes and 3 global themes. According to the results, the main concepts of positive thinking in the teachings of Imam Ali (as) included logical interpretation (problems and difficulties, assigning matters to God, oneself and others and the the temporary nature of positive and negative events), positive expectation (waiting for help from God and others and expecting pleasant events to occur), the role of God, oneself and others in occurring events (attention to God and to God's attributes) and attention to one's positive characteristics and thoughts (attention to the results of deeds and to the actions). Aurhors Reza Farashbandi 1 , Zohreh Saadatmand * 2 , Maryam Baratali 3 , Seyed Ebrahim Mirshah Jafari 4 How to cite this article Zohreh Saadatmand, Associate professor, Department of Curriculum planning, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan . Reanalyzing the Concept of Positive Thinking in the Teachings of Imam Ali in Order to Present Educational Implications and its Validation. ISSN: 2251-6166: Journal of Quran and medicine, 2020:5(2): 42-58 Keywords: The Concept of Positive Thinking, Imam Ali (as) Teachings, Educational implications, Validation. 1. PhD Student, Department of Philosophy of Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran. 2. Associate professor, Department of Curriculum planning, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan . 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum planning, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan. 4. Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. Article History Received: 2020/07/21 Accepted: 2020/09/19 Downloaded from quranmed.com at 2:59 +0330 on Wednesday November 24th 2021