Futuristic concepts in Islam and their education impacts

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The future is a concept which thinking on it is necessary and fascinating for all. Individuals would like to know: how destiny of world will happen? What purposes and plans should human has for the future? Due to available development in various arenas, will human reach to justice, security and welfare? How current occurred events and situations can be utilized for providing future activities with the quality? Today, understanding the future and making a realistic visualization from it seems necessary. Since God, the resourceful and aware, has prudently designed the world, he has admittedly provided human with futuristic landscapes, leading him to a light road. Therefore, familiarity with such landscapes and acquiring right knowledge about them can play a fundamental role in orientating and qualifying insight, attitude, tendency, activities and behavior of human. Hence, the present writing aims firstly to identify concepts mentioned in Islam lessons which they indicate concept "futurism" explicitly as well as tacitly and then, explain their educational impacts on individual and social aspects.

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