Religious Researches

Religious Researches

Study of Dimensions of Forcing Immature Children to Religious Duties

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Ph.D
Abstract
Since the properly religious training of children is the main concern of many religious families in modern era, so the importance and necessity of this research is clear. This paper does research on different dimensions of children's prayer and their forcing to prayer by parents and criterions and range of this forcing according to time of validity and parents' authorized and unauthorized actions. In this paper, views were expressed about forcing to religious duties and their legitimacy and illegitimacy; view selected with authentic documents was theory of immature children's legitimacy of prayers that had some effects. In this brief research, Qur'an and sunnah of Prophet (pbuh) and infallible Imams (AS) were as the main sources of research and intellect was used in order to emphasize and understand better this subject.
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Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Autumn 2015
Pages 161-189

  • Receive Date 28 November 2012
  • Revise Date 05 November 2013
  • Accept Date 05 January 2013