Professional Competencies of Religious Training Instructors: a Framework Consistent with Hikmat 147 of Nahj al-Balagha

There are many factors interfering the process of religious training, one of which is the instructor. The prominence of the role of the instructor is so great that we can define training as a two-way purposive relationship between the trainers and the trainees. Therefore, the identification of the type of competencies the trainers have to master to work properly, can help us achieve the desired outcomes of the education processes and gain our educational goals. Hence, this research, following an analytical-inferential approach and considering Hikmat 147 of Nahj al-Balaghah, which contains serious implications in this regard, has addressed the problem and has identified the professional qualifications of the instructors of religious traing in both scientific and practical fields. The scientific competencies include components such as "reception, transmission, and caring", and the practical competencies included preventive components (covertness, arrogance, apathy, pleasure seeking, and wealth collecting) and positive components (divinity-orientation, definite knowledge, patience and courage).