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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Role of the in Building the Virtuous Community Book Two: General Rules and Fundamentals Chapter 3: Cultural Aspect Prelude Culture, or education, occupies the third place of importance in the process of building the virtuous community.

It can portray the correct features of this community, since it represents the proportionally detailed outlines of the doctrinal and moral content and the foundation on which the superstructure of the virtuous community can be established. The institutions, programs, and consequences of education can maintain the endurance and continuity of this structure in addition to connecting with the doctrinal and moral aspects.

Education helps make these aspects become part of the culture by which the nation abides. Education is a well-fortified shelter that can maintain the doctrines and morals of the nation on the one hand and supply the people with a high moral spirit on the other. It can also hold together the nation and the virtuous community from all parts of the world to unify them on their path, affairs, and goals.

This is so because education monitors the details of the social structure and supplies all aspects with the concepts it needs at political, economic, social, organizational, or security levels and even at the levels of form, content, and purport. The (‘a) School has granted the educational aspect a special privilege and particular significance through their actions and by building the virtuous community.

No doubt, the Holy Qur’an, being the richest source of Islamic education in the view of the (‘a), has been the object of their greatest interest. For that reason, Imam ‘Ali Amir al-Mu'minin (‘a) took the initiative of compiling the Holy Qur’an based on its revelation and interpretation.

None compiled and preserved it as exactly as it was revealed except ‘Ali ibn Abi-Talib (‘a) and the Imams (‘a) after him.