A Study of the Role of Moral Education in the Holy Prophet's View for Fulfillment of Individual and Social Duties

Moral education is the process of preparing the ground and applying methods for flowering, reinforcing and engendering moral attributes and behaviors as well as improving or removing the unmoral behaviors and manners in human being. No doubt, purification and self-edification have a great role in individual and social as well as worldly and otherworldly felicity. Accordingly, what has been approved and emphasized in this study is an investigation of the role of moral education in the holy Prophet's view for performing individual and social duties. To achieve this important goal, we have mentioned some special goals: investigation and analysis of the principles of individual and social duties; and investigation and analysis of the role of moral education in realizing individual and social duties in the holy Prophet's view.The present article has used documentary method and lipary resources. The result obtained here is as follows: the moral education in the Prophet's view for realizing individual and social duties guides the Islamic society towards perfection and immunity against other hardships, obstacles and abnormalities. What derives human being to this perfection is his education, which is in line with realization of moral virtues and avoiding moral vices so that it may guide human beings towards divine perfection and felicity.