Social Training and its Ethical Foundations in Quran from the Perspective of Allame Tabatabaie

Islam is a social religion and its individual precepts have a social tone too. It is a characteristic which is used to reform and strengthen the social relationships among people and obtain society's ethical training. Islam does not aim to merely produce a faithful individual, but to establish a religious society whose social relationships are based on the purposes and orders of religion. Such a society is considered a valuable one in which both individual and social prosperities are closely linked and the social training is bound to the social duties and people's faith. Ethical foundations of the Quran are significant factors in establishing and developing an ideal Islamic society and can be applied in proper social training. Piety, social justice, unity and social security are among these foundations. Allame Tabatabie is one of the exegetes and philosophers who has paid special attention to this theme and believes that these ethical foundations are the necessary theoretical and practical tools to fulfill social training. He considers the society without social and moral foundations a proper background to drive man towards deviation and corruption. In such a society, corruption, chaos and social confusion will spread out. The author tries to display the ethical foundations of a social training found in the Quran from the perspective of Allame Tabatabaie.