Islam va Pazhuheshhaye Tarbiyati

According to the Islamic education and training, human is the subject of education with a special approach. According to the Islamic worldview, one of human’s most important characteristics is that there is a "Divine nature" in his/her instinct. This important and complex aspect of human is still not well known and is a matter of experts' opinions. Although there is almost an agreement on the meaning of "fitrah” (nature), but the precise understanding of this important Quranic word is still a point of contention, especially among Muslim philosophers of education. The purpose of this article is to investigate and analyze the concept of "fitrah", having an exploratory approach and using a descriptive-analytical method, from the perspective of scholars, especially Allameh Misbah Yazdi. The result of this research shows that although the majority of scholars have made less mistakes in understanding the meaning of fitrah, but the precision of Allameh Misbah Yazdi - as Qur’an’s interpreter and an anthropologist – reveals a new account of the meaning of fitrah. He considers fitrah as a special Quranic term, and restricts it to a special kind of human's knowledge of God and his tendency towards God. This is the special creation of human. According to this account – i.e. the meaning of human’s Divine fitrah is restricted to the two aspects of knowledge of God and having tendency to God – the position of these two educational aspects will be twofold in the Islamic educational system