The Imam Sajad's Style in Religious Education

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty Member of Baqir al-Olum University

2 Ph.D. Student of History of Islam, University of Religions & Denominations

Abstract

 
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the Imam Sajad's style in religious education and to respond to this question: how is religious education offered by Imam Sajad strategically explained? Therefore, the Imam Sajad's sayings (Sahifeh Sajadieh and the Treatise on Rights) were analyzed theoretically. Some research findings included a) in every situation, religious education should be based on that situation (ignorance, suffocation and people's hopelessness, leaders' corruption, Imam's seclusion); b) the content should be offered in accordance with society's need (Imam considered some issues like justice, hereafter, grave, people's rights, the rights of environment, Fiqh, home and family, profound moral and spiritual subjects, and enjoining good and forbidding wrong); c) regarding educational way, all ways should be used (education of manpower among poor people, chants and prayers, planned behavioral educations, and education by means of spoken, emotional, and natural language).

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