The education of children in an Islamic family based on the Holy Qur’an

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title The education of children in an Islamic family based on the Holy Qur’an
 
Creator Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary, Sulieman Kumar, Tribhuwan Pallathadka, Harikumar Hamoud Alshahrani, Shadia Abdul Nabi Muhammad Al-Tamimi, Hadi Muda, Iskandar Singer, Nermeen
 
Subject Education; Sociology; Psychology; Cultural Studies; Theology family; Islam; Holy Qur’an; education; child.
Description Education has been acknowledged as the key factor contributing to personality development and identity formation. To ensure appropriate education, it is thus of utmost importance to reflect on the power of the educational content. As a result, respecting Islamic values from a major authentic source, like the Holy Qur’an, paves the ground to fulfil this goal. On the contrary, the first and foremost educators to convey these values are the family, because each person mainly spends the time of one’s education in this small, primary social institution. Above and beyond, the building block of a society and the starting point of a culture, a civilisation and human history is the family. As a noble book of guidance for the human beings, the Holy Qur’an has accordingly shed light on the role of the family. Against this background, this study, adopting a descriptive analytical approach, aimed to investigate the Islamic family from the perspective of the Holy Qur’an with an emphasis on the education of children. Accordingly, the Holy Qur’an reveals that the main purposes of creating a family are inner peace, generational survival and expansion of the faith and monotheism. A healthy family environment can thus have a profound impact on cultivating moral character and virtues. In view of the Holy Qur’an, the family is the first place to seek relief and perform the acts of worship. No divine religions have also given as much value to the family as Islam, which implies its comprehensiveness. Despite much attention to the family in most societies, it receives special importance in the Qur’anic teachings. This article is a review study that dealt with Qur’anic concepts related to education in the family. Therefore, after categorising different Qur’anic verses, analyses have been presented in each category.Contribution: Islam has set many specific programmes and educational instructions from childbirth and then delegated their implementation to the family. Accordingly, this noble religion offers many guidelines for picking a perfect name, breastfeeding and weaning, loving, observing justice and fulfilling promises in relation to children.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2023-04-17
 
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Identifier 10.4102/hts.v79i2.8273
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 79, No 2 (2023); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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