Cultural Institutionalization in the Prophetic Era, the Aligning Model of Islamic Society

Many of today's challenges in the contemporary world are rooted in the cultural problems of societies. The field of culture is one of the important infrastructure areas in society that can be influential in different parts of society. Considering the field of culture as the most important field in society and by explaining the cultural foundations of Islamic society, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) tried to change society and its transition from Jahili society to Islamic society. The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) tried to institutionalize culture in the prophetic society by focusing on monotheism as the basis of the cultural transformation of society. This research poses the question that what are the indicators and components of institutionalizing culture in the prophetic society, and the hypothesis that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) changed the system of beliefs centered on monotheism and the value system in the society with the help of new methods and They were able to contribute to the cultural transformation of the society efficiently. This article tries to explain cultural institutionalization with a library study and descriptive and analytical method and emphasize the position that the institutionalizing in the Prophetic era as an aligning model in the Islamic society can provide new and appropriate models by using the cultural methods and approaches of the prophetic era in the direction of cultural reform of the contemporary society based on monotheism in Islamic principles. The introduction of the Holy Qur'an considers all the prophets to be preachers and as a result all religions are preachers. Because the divine purpose of sending the prophets is the salvation of all mankind, not the prophets themselves or a specific group; hence, one of the most important aspects of the Prophet's (PBUH) life is his missionary life. Therefore, based on the Quranic, hadith, and historical documents, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) took into account the low level of culture and civilization of the Arabs in the era before the advent of Islam, and started institutionalizing culture, which undoubtedly left a great impact on Islamic civilization and served as an aligning model in the society, it is also very pioneering, and perhaps many of the upcoming cultural challenges can be solved in Islamic society with the help of the cultural model of prophetic government with Islamic solutions. It should be known that culture has three components, each of which is considered a layer of the cultural system, the most fundamental cultural layer is the system of beliefs and knowledge, in the next stage, there is the system of values and tendencies, and the outermost cultural layer is the system of behaviors and actions. In the stages of his heavenly calling, the Messenger of God (PBUH) put the most fundamental layer and cultural system, i.e. beliefs and cognition of man, in the priority of change and transformation, and then proceeded to the next layers.