Methods of Preparing Moral Education for Youth in Nahj al-Balaghah

Imam Ali (PBUH) is the coach of human morality and education. His teachings, in addition to explanation of ethical statements, provide their methods too. Methods of Preparing Moral Education is one of these. The importance of youth in moral education and lean methods for the training based on psychological characteristics of youth in Islamic teachings, led to methods based on "othereducation", and inferred analysis of Nahj al-Balaghah. This study is a library research, and was carried out by descriptive and inferential analysis. Extracting of youth qualities and methods of moral education are as descriptive and analytical method, and discovering of specific methods for moral education of youth from Nahj al- Balaghah is based on the inference method. Since the preparing for moral education is the most important element of the training, this study tries to extract the most important methods for the preparing of moral education; creating an atmosphere of faith and morality, the giving monotheistic dignity, reforming of family and companion, and the awakening of nature are among these methods.