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Education is not only about 2. The Beginning of The Quran
improving the conditions of and Command to Read
individual life; but also about Allah in the first verse declared
social stability, national welfare to the prophet emphasizes on the
and development, as well as knowledge and the promotion
human civilization and progress. of learning. In Holy Quran God
Islam respects logic, pays states:
special attention to education, “Proclaim! [Or read!] In
and always emphasizes that the name of your God and
Muslims should strengthen Creator, He Who created *
their Islamic culture and try to Created man, out of a
know God through thinking, [mere] clot of congealed blood
so through learning they are * Proclaim! And your God
able to recognize the is Most Bountiful * He Who
legitimacy of their affairs. taught [the use of] the pen
(Imam Khamenei, 2011) * He taught man that which
Islam leads people from the he knew not”. (Quran, 96:
darkness of ignorance to the 1-5)
light of knowledge and
disappear the ignorance and The manifestation of this
savage habits to appear the passage urges human beings
promotion of cultural knowledge, to study and receive education
so education is the only way in the first verse of Quran
to achieve this goal. Through declared to the Prophet.
culture and education, man During the Prophet era (AD
becomes civilized. (Jordac, 1959) 610-632), the content of the
knowledge that the Muslim is
mainly concentrated on is the
Quran and Sunnah learning
