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Challenges of Education. Important Reminders. If someone finds a needle in a street, he will think that this needle must have its manufacturer and craftsman. Needle. a table. a letter. a painting. Require existence of their maker. a carpenter. a writer. an artist.
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If someone finds a needle in a street, he will think that this needle must have its manufacturer and craftsman Needle
a table a letter a painting Require existence of their maker a carpenter a writer an artist
How, then, can it be that so extremely well-ordered a kingdom should have no ruler?
So many proofs in the Heavens and the Earth are given to them, but they pass by them, heedlessly! Yūsuf 12:105 If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! Anbiya 21:22:
Purpose of life is to seek understanding • Man came to this world to be perfected by means of knowledge and supplication.
Purpose of Human Someone gave one of his servants twenty gold pieces, telling him to have a suit of clothes made out of a particular cloth. Then he saw that his employer had given another of his servants a thousand gold pieces, and putting in the servant’s pocket a piece of paper with some things written on it, had sent him to conclude some business.
Given 1000 gold pieces and a letter. Responsibility To conclude a business according to the letter. Given 20 gold pieces. Responsibility To buy a fine cloth for himself Now, anyone with any sense would know that the capital was not for getting a suit of clothes, for, since the first servant had bought a suit of the finest cloth with twenty gold pieces, the thousand gold pieces were certainly not to be spent on that.
Since the second servant had not read the paper in his pocket, and looking at the first servant, had given all the money to a shopkeeper for a suit of clothes, and then received the very lowest grade of cloth and a suit fifty times worse that his friend’s, his employer was bound to reprimand him severely for his stupidity, and punish him angrily.
O my soul and my friend! Come to your senses! Do not spend the capital and potentialities of your life on pleasures of the flesh and this fleeting life like an animal, or even lower. Otherwise, although you are fifty times superior with regard to capital than the highest animal, you will fall fifty times lower than the lowest. O my heedless soul! If you want to understand to a degree both the aim of your life and its nature, and the form of your life, and the true meaning of your life, and its perfect happiness, then look!
بِسْمِ اللّهِالرّحْمنِ الرّحِيمِ I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Adh-Dhariyat, 56). That man can have nothing but what he strives for; (Nejm 39). "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?" (Zumar 9). In the Name of God,the Merciful,the Compassionate
CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION • Complete Secular approach in education • Lack of religious resources like true religious leaders, religious schools and books etc • Language obstacles in Learning Quran • Banning religious freedoms in some countries
ADOPTION OF NON-ISLAMIC EDUCATION IMPOSITION OF NEGATIVE SIDE OF WESTERN LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE INCORPORATION OF DARWINISM/ MATERIALIST/ATHEIST PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
1. COMBINE RELIGIOUS SCIENCES AND MODERN SCIENCES COMBINED: SEPARATED :
Science without conscience Literal Superficial Religious Teaching
2. TEACH PEACE AND ORDER 3 enemies 3 weapons
3. TO INTRODUCE THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES INTO THE MADARIS
4. RECONCILIATION OF THE INMATES OF RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS AND MODERN SCHOOLS
5. REFORM AND UNIFICATION OF THE MADARIS TO PURIFY ISLAM OF VARIOUS ACCRETIVE STORIES, ISRAELIYAT AND BIGOTRY
Saving the belief ‘ I have sacrificed even my life in the hereafter to save the community’s religious belief . I neither long for paradise, nor fear hell. I would not want Paradise even, if the Qur’an has no listeners on the earth; it would be a prison for me.’ ‘ to bring to belief those without belief, strengthen the belief of those whose belief is weak, make certain the belief of those whose belief is strong but imitative, give greater breadth to the belief of those whose belief is certain..’
1. The direct lecturing method (taqrir) A. Uses language powerfully B. Consider individual differences . “don’t give meat to the horse and grass to the lion.” Don’t teach everything to everyone. Put quality before quantity and provide people with what they need. Virtually see paradise in return for their good deeds, and hell requital for their bad deeds. Takes the psychology of its readers into consideration.
1. The direct lecturing method (taqrir)C. Counsels with good words and deeds “ He who sees the good things has good thoughts. And he who has good thoughts receive pleasure from life. “ “ if you wish to defeat your enemy , then respond to his evil with good. For if you respond with evil, enmity will increase, and even though he will outwardly be defeated , he will nurture hatred in his heart, and hostility will persist. ‘If you tell a bad man he is good, he may improve. Tell a good man he is bad, he may degenerate.’
“everything we say should be true, but we don’t have right to say everything that is true”
1. The direct lecturing method (taqrir) D. Provides a good example through comparisons • “ the most distant truths were brought close through the telescope of the mystery of comparisons (parables). • Through the stairs of the mystery of parables , the highest truths were easily reached. Through the window of the mystery of comparisons, a certainty of belief in the truths of the unseen and fundamentals of Islam was obtained close to the degree of “ witnessing’ the intellect, as well as the imagination and fancy, and the soul and the caprice, were compelled to submit, and Satan too was compelled to surrender his weapons.
1. The direct lecturing method (taqrir) E. GRADUALNESS
Humanity World Our Priority order Homeland Country Neighborhood City Body / Home Stomach Hearth
Insufficient Proper Level Excessive Dullness Stupidity Smart deviating speaker Visdom CourageBravery Acting without thinking Cowardice Chastity Modesty Passionlessnessfor lawful Bad moral
2. The active learning method • True learning is possible only through experience. • The training of the spirit, human faculties, body is done through the practice of worship. • “ O YOU WHO BELIEVE! IF YOU FEAR ALLAH, HE WILL GRANT YOU A CRITERION (TO JUDGE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG).
THROUGHOUT THIS ACTIVE LEARNING PROCESS, THE TEACHER STILL ACTS AS AN EXPERIENCED AND LEARNED GUIDE
3. OBSERVATIONAL METHODA. EXTERNAL OBSERVATION In many verses of the Qur’an , we are tasked to observe and reflect The universe is referred to a book filled with letters that speak about its author. He leads the readers to observe and reflect on the innumerable signs pointing to the existence and oneness of Allah. Ex. 2:164 ‘BEHOLD! IN THE CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH; IN THE ALTERNATION OF THE NIGHT AND THE DAY;IN THE SAILING OF THE SHIPS THROUGH THE OCEAN FOR THE PROFIT OF MANKIND; IN THE RAIN WHICH ALLAH SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKY;IN THE CHANGE OF THE WINDS…INDEED ARE SIGNS FOR A PEOPLE WHO REFLECT.’
EX. From THE SUPREME SIGN Your Sustainer inspired in the bee that it should seek a dwelling-place in the mountains. Qur’an, 16:68
For to inscribe in the minute head of that little honey-machine a complete programme for the fulfilment of its important task; to place in its diminutive stomach the most delicious of foods and to ripen it there; to place in its sting poison capable of destroying and killing animate beings, without causing any harm to its own body or the member in question - to do all this without the utmost care and knowledge, with exceeding wisdom and purposiveness, partakes of a perfect orderliness and equilibriium, and hence unconscious, disorderly, disequilibriated nature and accident could never interfere or participate in any of this.
The appearance and comprehensiveness of this Divine craft, this dominical deed, which is miraculous in three separate respects, in the countless bees that are found scattered over the earth, with the same wisdom, the same care, the same symmetry, at the same time and in the same fashion - this is a self-evident proof of Allah’s unity.
3. OBSERVATIONAL METHODB. INWARD OBSERVATION • REFLECTIVE THOUGHT, INNER EXPERIENCES, INSPIRATION, ILLUMINATION • ‘IT IS GREAT PROFIT FOR AN UNFORTUNATE LIKE MYSELF WHO WAITS AT THE DOOR OF THE GRAVE TO MAKE ONE HOUR WHICH MIGHT BE PASSED IN HEEDLESSNESS THAN HOURS OF WORSHIP.”
NEW CHALLENGES EDUCATION 50 YEARS LATER WHAT STEPS TO TAKE? NO NEED FOR SCHOOLS WALLS AS TEACHERS
CONCLUSION • WE ARE IN NEED OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCES AS WELL AS MODERN SCIENCES TO BE TAUGHT IN ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS. • WE ARE IN NEED OF READING OF QURAN AS WELL AS READING OF THE BOOK OF UNIVERSE.
