Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Esmail Ataei kachoei ¹
• Majid Torughi ²

¹ PhD student in Educational Jurisprudence at Al-Mustafa University (PBUH) and specialized graduate of the Higher Institute of Jurisprudence and Islamic Sciences.

² Faculty of Al-Mustafa University

Abstract

According to ontological principles, children have two needs from the moment they are born: material and spiritual. In order to provide and guide their spiritual needs, they must be educated, and from the perspective of jurisprudence, the primary responsibility for this education and upbringing lies with the parents. Among the most important spiritual needs of children is the “need for worship,” a clear example of which is prayer; however, due to parents’ lack of awareness of their responsibility in educating their children for prayer, little success is achieved in this regard. One of the main reasons for this ignorance is that jurists have not fully examined this issue related to children before puberty. Given that some jurists have not considered the reasons for the necessity of parents’ obligation to teach and educate their minor children to pray sufficient and have not presented an independent reason for their view, the following article intends to focus on the reasons for necessity in this issue and, using the method of citation and ijtihad analysis, examine the validity of the reasons for the necessity of teaching and educating minor children to pray. In short, it can be said that the present article, by emphasizing jurisprudential foundations and presenting a new interpretation of the reasons for necessity, considers teaching and educating minor children to pray obligatory on parents according to the opinion of a group of Shiite jurists and does not consider disputes on these reasons to be relevant.

Keywords

• Education
• religious education
• prayer
• minor children

Main Subjects

• وظایف شرعی خانواده در تربیت