Psychological and Educational Results of Praying

Praying is one of the most important teachings in Islamic school. Invocation as a basic religious command has a lot of different advantages in various aspects of human being's life. This paper is studying psychological and training aspect of praying. For this purpose, the author had been studied the impact of praying on education of human beings by utilization of descriptive-analytical method and studied authoritative Islamic references and psychological resources. Three diverse aspects for humans are defined as: Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral aspects. Research findings represent that praying is an effective educational course that covers all three dimensions. In the cognitive aspect, it has an undeniable effect on theology, self-identification and gaining enough information for understanding responsibilities. In the emotional area, it would increase the inner peace, relativeness to Allah, self-respecting, growth and excellence. In the behavioral aspect, praying can be an origin for modification and behavioral changes. Also it can prevent human from negligence and can be the bubbling fountainhead of beneficence. Praying also can create an insight power and a luminous heart and prevents heart from being involved with devil's temptations.