Qorban Elmi & Seyyed Muhsin Seyyedi
Dr. Q. Elmi and Mr. S. M. Seyyedi are Lecturers in the Teacher Training University of Tabriz, Department of Theology.
A study of the history of human civilization in the world yields the idea that the first institution that organizes and moderates human behavior has been religion. Since civilization is brought forth by man who has uncontrollable instincts which causes him to conflict and quarrel to take advantage of whatever, and it is religion that restrains and controls the instincts and behaviors of human beings in their life. Religion, with a set of laws and commands, obliges its followers to commit themselves to some limitations and it is an important internal and external factor in preventing of barbarism and savagery. Moreover, religion seeks to remind man his values, his self, and his talents by encouraging and impelling him, and tries to bring them to bud and blossom and perfection; it also tries to make man achieve just relationship and to enjoy reasonable freedom, safe economy, sovereign of humanistic values, i.e. to lead them to the sublime spiritual and material state.
This paper attempts to study and prove the role of religion in " Making Islamic Civilization " and developments both in religious teachings and prophet's behavior.