Education- Giving Traditions in Al-Mizan

There are several concepts in “Al-Mizan”, which can be closely related to the foundations, principles, methods and stages of education. The present paper seeks to infer from Al-Mizan the concepts which are related to the foundations of education, especially those which are known as the ontological foundations of education and particularly called “education-giving traditions”. Generally speaking, divine traditions can be divided into two groups: worldly traditions and other-worldly traditions. Other-worldly traditions are those which are related to the life in the other world and reward and punishment. Worldly traditions are those which deal with man’s social behaviors and their outcomes in this world. The term “education-giving traditions”, here is concerned with the second group, that is, with those traditions which are related to man’s social behaviors and their outcomes in this world. Among the main education-giving traditions are the tradition of affliction and trail, the tradition of sending messengers, the tradition of guidance, the tradition of drawing a person on little by little, the tradition of respiting and delaying, tradition of decisive victory of truth against falsehood which (the Most High God has mentioned in the Holy Quran in different occasions with the aim of educating mankind and pointing out the way of achieving felicity and perfection).