اسلام و پژوهش‌های تربیتی

abstract One of the challenges of school religious education is the obligation or non- obligation of the requirement. In Islam, religious education is ordered, especially for children and teenagers. So far, many Western and Islamic thinkers have spoken about the obligation of religious education, and one of the Muslim thinkers who has addressed this issue is Ayatollah Arafi. The purpose of this research is to examine his opinion about the obligation of religious education in a school, which is first expressed by descriptive-inferential method, and then his arguments are presented and criticized. In this research, there are three types of obligation: legal obligation, program obligation and procedural obligation. The most important findings of the research indicate that Arafi believes in the obligation of school religious education. His arguments for this requirement are: 1- The responsibility of the Islamic state towards school religious education (according to the rational and narrative reason); 2- Protecting and maintaining the ego from deviation; and 3- enjoining good and forbidding evil.