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old, and deem excessive six years of primary school. They try to reduce the period by fatiguing
their sons in special tutorials that exhaust their powers and incapacitate their mental
maturity.”[2]
Al‐Abdari says, “The virtuous ancestors used to send their seven‐year‐old sons to the tutorials
since they are asked to teach their sons the ritual prayers and good manners and traits in this age.
Now, children are joining schools in an early age. Teachers should beware of teaching such
children the principals of reading lest they are exhausted physically and mentally. As a matter of
fact, fathers are sending their sons to school in an early age for getting rid of their home troubles,
not teaching them.”[3]
Laziness, sloth, and cessation of mental maturity are within the disadvantages of sending the early
children to schools.
Islam has referred to another nonesuch matter that is the necessity of feeding the children with
religious spirits so that the atheistic ideologies will not affect. Imam Ali said, “Teach your sons
useful knowledge so that the atheists will not overcome them.”[4]
The children’s minds are the most fertile for receiving the religious advocacy and embracing the
virtues and guidance of Islam. The children’s religious advocacy purifies their souls against
deviation and aberrance, and guides to a brighter future.
Children are the recipients of every idea. Imam Ali says, “The like of the juveniles’ minds is the
vacant land that receives whatever is seeded.” This fact should be utilized for directing the
children to the virtuous bearing of honesty and good manners. Unfortunately, the educators and
fathers have shown shortage in this regard. They did
[1] Refer to Wesailus‐Shia: 7/194‐5.
[2] Refer to Entrance to the holy Sharia: 2/163.
[3] Refer to Planning for education and teaching: 88.
[4] Refer to Wesailus‐Shia; 7/197.
not immunize their sons against the lethal diseases, such as existentialism and the like, that
gushed into the Muslim countries and affected many individuals. Such individuals went on
imitating the fashions and styles of the aimless and the corruption of the existentialists. They have
lost all of the criteria of human values and distinction between good and evil. Categories of
Sciences:
Islam has ordered of plunging into all of the classes of sciences especially those achieving social
and mental growth. Furthermore, it is obligatory upon Muslims to receive some sciences such as
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