A review and rational analysis of the verdict of guiding the ignorant in the principles of belief

Subject Areas : Intellectual explorations

Rouhollah Khodadadi ¹ , Mostafa Khodadadnejad ²

1 - Assistant Professor of Islamic Education Department of Islamic Education,School of Medicine Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences,Ahvaz,Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Islamic Education Department of Islamic Education Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences,Ahvaz,Iran

Received: 2023-06-17 Accepted : 2023-06-27 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: propagating religion, enjoining the good and forbidding the bad, guiding the ignorant in the principles of religion, teaching the ignorant, Guiding the ignorant,

Abstract :

Guiding the ignorant means teaching some issues to someone who is not aware of them. Guiding the ignorant in matters of faith means teaching matters of faith to a person who is ignorant of those matters. The purpose of this research is to explain the evidence of the obligation of guiding the ignorant in matters of faith and also the scope of this obligation. The proofs of ignorant guidance in the words of scholars have received less attention. Those who have dealt with it have also raised the issue of guiding the ignorant in rulings. In this article, by referring to first-hand sources as well as up-to-date researches such as foreign studies, he has examined the various evidences of the guidance of the ignorant and applied them to the guidance of the ignorant in matters of faith.