The Effect of Visiting the Holy Shrines of Ahl al-Bayt on Moral Development

Using an analytical and library-based method, this paper seeks to investigate the effect of visiting the holy shrines of Ahl al-Bayt on moral development, and answer some questions, like the nature of moral development, the reason, which ethics presents, for visiting the holy shrines of Ahl al-Bayt, and the effect of visiting the holy shrines of Ahl al-Bayt on the soul. Moral development refers to spiritual perfection and moral values which are acquired through "moral education" by removing the obstacles and creating and strengthening the factors in such areas like insight, attitude and capability. In moral education, the learner needs to use some methods in order to realize moral development in the three areas. Pilgrimage is one of the methods of moral education which contributes to the growth of insight, vision, attitude and capability and learner’s moral development by removing such obstacles like; skepticism, secularism and effects of sins, and by taking into account such factors like knowledge, hope, remembrance of God and faith.