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Willpower and self-determination are primary intendments of Islamic mental education. First, Islam has been concerned with establishing a firm will, a constant determination, and a fixed spirit in the minds in order to save from drifting with the tre...

Willpower and self-determination are primary inten...

Ethicists mention several means leading to chastity. They are: - Moderation in inclination to lusts - Avoidance of associating with the evil who exaggerate and decorate the vices - Acceding to the virtuous and the religious individuals who advance to...

Ethicists mention several means leading to chastit...

Environment is one the most eminent effects of education. Children pursue their environments unfeelingly. The environment plants instincts and habits in the children’s minds easily and readily. The youth follow the environmental effects in good and b...

Environment is one the most eminent effects of edu...

Ethicists define chastity, as the self-control and equanimity of the inclinations to desires including the bodily, like eating and the like, and the mental, like agitations and emotions. The quality of chastity is applied to those who are moderate in...

Ethicists define chastity, as the self-control and...

The mixture of contrasting opinions and principals that the teachers pose has affected the teaching processes. A teacher may introduce special ideas in the class, and incite the students to accept them. Another teacher may come to the same class with...

The mixture of contrasting opinions and principals...

Modern schools have been interested in the absolute teaching, which supplies the pupils with no experts or social interaction. Filling up the pupils’ minds with sciences and knowledge is powerless on the individuals’ lives unless it accords their fac...

Modern schools have been interested in the absolut...

Modern education has not been based upon the principals of teachings and ethics. Most of the teaching media has paid no attention to this matter. An educationist says, “Teachers do not engage themselves in treating the pollution that affect the child...

Modern education has not been based upon the princ...

Teachers carry serious responsibilities and excellent duties. They are responsible -before God- for educating the young generations correctly and guaranteeing their future so that they will be their fathers’ relief and their nations’ representatives....

Teachers carry serious responsibilities and excell...

A teacher is the nation’s pioneer and the generations’ instructor who is bound with the greatest social responsibilities. The following are some qualities that teachers should carry: - Teachers should be acquainted with a suitable amount of knowledge...

A teacher is the nation’s pioneer and the generati...

The teaching message is not limited to enlightening the pupils with information. In fact, the teachers’ tasks are more comprehensive. Besides teaching and stuffing the pupils with knowledge, teachers should prepare them soundly to associate and estab...

The teaching message is not limited to enlightenin...

The general criterion of peoples’ progress all over the stages of humanity depends upon the amount of teaching opportunities that are provided for the individuals. This is the greatest fortune that nations may possess. Teaching must purpose for publi...

The general criterion of peoples’ progress all ove...

Mashad is the capital of Khorasan province in the North East of Iran, 892 km away from Tehran. It is located at the altitude of 985 Meter occupying an area of 204 sq. Km. and has a population of about 1.5 million. Mashad grew from a small village cal...

Mashad is the capital of Khorasan province in the ...

Hamza ibne Qahtabah, the Abbasid army commander who had led the war against the Ommayids was appointed by Mansur and Al-Mahdi, the Abbasid caliphs as the Governor of Khorasan. He made a big garden between Noughan and Sanadan and erected a palace whic...

Hamza ibne Qahtabah, the Abbasid army commander wh...

The modern city of Samarra is situated on the bank of the river Tigris some sixty miles from the city of Baghdad. The city is of outstanding importance because of its two shrines. The golden dome on one shrine was presented by Nasr al-Din Shah and co...

The modern city of Samarra is situated on the bank...

The historian Ibn Kuluwayh mentioned that those who buried Imam Husayn (a.s.), made a special and rigid construction with signs above the grave. Higher and bigger constructions above the grave started during the ruling of Al-Saffah, but Harun al-Rash...

The historian Ibn Kuluwayh mentioned that those wh...

Anyone approaching Baghdad from the north or the west will be impressed by the sight of the four golden minarets at Kadhmayn, the Shrine of the Two Imams, Imam Musa al-Kadhim and Imam Muhammad Taqi al-Jawad, peace be upon them. They are respectively ...

Anyone approaching Baghdad from the north or the w...

Abu al-Fadl Abbas, peace be upon him, was the brother of Imam Hasan (a.s.) and Imam Husayn (a.s.) and the standard-bearer of Imam Husayn (a.s.) in the Battle of Karbala. He is well known in history for his valour, loyalty and similarity to his father...

Abu al-Fadl Abbas, peace be upon him, was the brot...

There are many opinions among different investigators, as to the origin of the word "Karbala". Some have pointed out that "Karbala" has a connection to the "Karbalato" language, while others attempt to derive the meaning of word "Karbala" by analysin...

There are many opinions among different investigat...

Umar bin Jubair describes al-Baqi as he saw it during his travel to Madina, saying "Al-Baqi is situated to the east of Madina. You enter it through the gate known as the gate of al-Baqi. As you enter, the first grave you see on your left is that of S...

Umar bin Jubair describes al-Baqi as he saw it dur...

Unlike any other city, Karbala has its named engraved in the memory of generations, and in the expanse of the Muslim world ... Believers remember that name with sorrow and distress, for they remember the history of the master of all martyrs, Imam Hus...

Unlike any other city, Karbala has its named engra...

The Ottoman Empire had added to the splendor of Madina and Makkah by building religious structures of great beauty and architectural value. Richard Burton, who visited the holy shrines in 1853 AD disguised as an Afghan Muslim and adopting the Muslim ...

The Ottoman Empire had added to the splendor of Ma...