90 likes | 369 Views
Future of Muslim Youth in South Western Nigeria. Being a Presentation to the Forum for Islamic Education and Welfare by Oladosu Ayinde Afis Ph.D Senior Lecturer Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies University of Ibadan 28 Z.Qidah 1429 (27 Nov. 2008).
E N D
Future of Muslim Youth in South Western Nigeria Being a Presentation to the Forum for Islamic Education and Welfare by Oladosu Ayinde Afis Ph.D Senior Lecturer Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies University of Ibadan 28 Z.Qidah 1429 (27 Nov. 2008)
Initial Problematics: Categories and Trajectories • Knowing The Muslim Youth: The Modernist (The Rim of life) • Knowing the Muslim Youth: The Karikasas/traditionist (Return to the Past • Knowing the Muslim Youth: The Balancers Youthfulness is not about age, its about life; its not what life offers but what you imbue life with “To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods”
Southwestern Nigeria • Agon of Globalization • Melting Pot of/for Chris-Lam-Herb-Atheists • Political Hotbed-The Invaders, the Destroyers, the Builders • Envy of the Educationally Dis-advantaged It does not matter anymore where you were born; what matters more is what you do with where you were born Al-mar’u la min aythu yulad; bal min aythu yujad…
The Muslim Youth in SW: Reading the Past in the Present • Dis/Locating the MY: the home-front • Dis/locating the MY: the school-setting • Dis/locating the MY: the gLoBaLiSeD world • Dis/locating the MY: the im/moral culture “Make use of five before five comes unto you” Your son/daughter is at five your master, at ten your servant, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up –ibn Karkas
MY in the SW: ToWaRd the FuTuRe 1 • The What, the where, the when, the who and the how of the future • Search for Models: Prophet Ibrahim (aw) (alfityah) • Searching for Models: Prophet Yusuf • Searching for models: Prophet Muhammad (saw) Al-mustaqbal a!Huna
MY in the SW: tOwArD the FuTuRe 2 • Knowledge (Islam and the Other) Creativity/thoughtfulness; ethic/morality • The World/wheel: The Rim, the spoke and the axis: the shariah, the tariqah, the haqiqah • Confidence in Islam/the future for Islam • Management of time: what is important/urgent; neither important nor urgent; important not urgent; urgent not important “the difference between s/he that remembers Allah and s/he that does not”
Towards the Future of MY in SW: tHe role of MSSN • The MSSN: History/Objectives • The MSSN: Structure and Hierarchy • The MSSN: Programmes: IVC Where are they: the Ark of Nuh, the Camel of Salih, the staff of Musa, the garden of Madyan, the Mosque of the Prophet?
The IVC Site • A Presentation by the Zonal • Co-ordinator and Vice President National, Mallam Abdul Ganiy Akinosho