The position of the Father in the family Nahj al-Balagha Doctrines

The beginning school of every person is his home and family. As the early years of training play a fundamental role in the physical, emotional, moral, and rational structure, they are of great importance and the role of the family in these years is so distinguished. As one of the family pillars, the father does not have any substitutes. Children acquire the first affection, friendship, hatred, and hostility lessons at home. The role of the father is highly outstanding in the family because he is the main person responsible for the proper training of children. This research aims at investigating the educational role of the father in the teachings of Nahj al-Balaghah. The study was done with the descriptive-analytical approach and gathered library data, in particular Nahj al-Balaghah and Imam Ali's (A.S.) sayings related to the role of the father in training children. Thus, qualitative content analysis was used to analyze Nahj al-Balaghah. The ATLAS.ti software was used in this study to code, classify, and categorize selected texts. After the Nahj al-Balaghah statements related to the research subject were collected and coded, in total 571 codes related to the training and father themes were extracted from which 53 were about the training and father codes. Summarizing and incorporating Nahj al-Balaghah codes and classifying them leads us to six titles of the factors that influence training. Dashti translation of Nahj al-Balaghah was used for coding this book.