Allah’s revelation through the Qur’an and the Messenger, s.a.w.s., is an inexhaustible sea. In this paper we intended these two sources to be dominant.
In His Revelation Book Allah says that Ibrahim s.a.w.s. asked Him: "Our Lord! send amongst them an Messenger of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wisdom, and sanctify them: For Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise."
A similar (favour have ye already received) in that We have sent among you an Messenger of your own, rehearsing to you Our Signs, and sanctifying you, and instructing you in Scripture and Wisdom, and in new knowledge.
Allah did confer a great favour on the believers when He sent among them an apostle from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the Signs of Allah, sanctifying them, and instructing them in Scripture and Wisdom…“
It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered an apostle from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom…
The above the Qur’an verses unambiguously explain the inseparability of an upbringing process and education in the Islamic concept of religious upbringing. Those verses set the two to one synthesis of these two processes on behalf of upbringing. First purity was mentioned three times and then teaching, and only once teaching was mentioned first.
The following tradition is about it too. It is said that different deputations of Arab tribes came to Allah’s Messenger, s.a.w.s., and to all of them he talked in their dialects. The ashabs themselves could not understand that. Aliyya ibn Eby Talyb noticed: ¨We can hear that you talk to all the people in their language. Who thought you that? ¨Allah’s Messenger, s.a.w.s., answered: ¨I was raised by my Lord. He it is Who made my upbringing perfect.¨
From the cited traditions we can conclude that Allah’s messenger, s.a.w.s., when asked about teaching set upbringing as a paradigm.
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