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Any Nation whose people believe in an idea would also want their future generations to adopt such ideas so as to preserve them. This culture of a Nation is what determines a people's civilisation, the nation's goals, and their way of life. Such people are moulded into one Nation based on this culture. And it is this culture that distinguishes one nation from another. This also holds true for the Muslim Ummah.
What is meant by culture is the Aqeedah and what emanates from this Aqeedah in terms of Ahkams, solutions and systems; and what is based upon the Aqeedah such as other knowledge, sciences and the history linked to this culture (biography of the Ummah). If this culture is lost, it will lead to the demise of the Ummah as a distinguished Ummah; the objective of the Ummah and her way of life will be changed and she will be left following the culture of other nations.
The culture of any nation forms the personalities of its peoples. So it shapes the way a person passes judgements. It also shapes the desires and inclinations. As a result it influences the aqliyah (Thinking) and nafsiyah (behaviour). Therefore, preserving the culture of the Ummah and spreading it within society is one of the main responsibilities of the Khilafah.
The education system is the way to preserve this culture in the hearts and minds of the Ummah. This is true for any nation. This type of education runs according to the system and laws the State adopts and the State is responsible to ensure such a system functions through the administration, curriculum development and maintenance, employing teachers, how to deliver the subjects, etc.
This cultural threat is not one that has passed with the passing of time. With the Ummah reclaiming her understanding and adherence to the Islamic culture, the Western world has again realised that the only way to keep the Ummah from re-establishing the Khilafah is to again re-culture her. This reality is no more obvious than in the UK with the Government's initiatives to empower Muslim women and youth so they become full contributing participants of the British society; to teach Citizenship studies and the Capitalistic way of life within schools; to make the following of specific Islamic thoughts and practices as extremist and unacceptable.
What needs to be made clear is the education system of any nation depends on the government to ensure it itself is fully functional. To ensure it serves its purpose of safeguarding the ideas and propagating them to future generations requires regulations and governance. The Soviet Union used her education system to ensure no foreign ideas infiltrated the hearts and minds of her people. The Capitalist nations do the same. The principles of the education system under the Khilafah outlined in this paper are no different. To expect that implementation of these policies and syllabi within our current realities will produce the desired outcome is naïve. Rather it is paramount that we realise to fulfil our responsibility as Muslim fathers and mothers, is a struggle to achieve both the best we can to safeguard our children at present while also struggling to establish the Khilafah to allow this responsibility to be fulfilled the way Allah (swt) intended.
The education system under the Islamic State is composed of policies, objectives, methods and styles of teaching, school education and higher education, to name a few. What follows is the application of some policies of the future Khilafah state.
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shabana
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salam, MashAllhah - what an eye opener. Would really appreciate more such detilas on the jidical and social sytems as well. wow. Jizakalalh |
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guY-sir
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As-Salam-O-Alaikum to all I make mY education policy by creating google blog and I wrote few articles about democracy and Mammon Please visit http://karachi-kool.blogspot.com/ mY aim is to give real edu to our muslims bro and sis who are seeking truth and wanna change fascist rule into fair rule by establishing the khilafah. |
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Dr Q A
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AA... JzkAllah for clarifying this... It can certainly be acceptable as a last resort for bad behavior... Also sister Nadia you are right that in a lot of Muslim families children are not treated as intelligent beings whereas the reality is that children are extremely rational in their approach to the understanding of Dunya... |
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Nadia
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Wa aleikum salam Yes I think I agree with u, but I still think none but the parents should beat the kid...just keep it simple otherwise worse fitna might arise and maybe in a way that doesnt embarrase them or in a way in which one can feed resentment feelings or give others the chance to abuse the kid...whats the islamic view on this? |
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Adnan Khan
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Salaams Jazakhlah for all your comments I think however a fundamental point is being missed Punishing children for various acts of disobedience is something Islam has addressed. Islam laid down a methodology in dealing with children who commit violations of ahkam shariah. In my report I have not presented punishing children as an aspect of education, in fact an evidence was presented to illustrate, that when a child reaches the age of puberty, they become accountable and responsible. My report said After the age of 10 until puberty beating can be applied if necessary. It is permissible, that doesn’t necessarily make it the best option. Fundamentally the Islamic education policy cannot be applied without a state |
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Nadia
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I have to agree with Dr. Q A...Physical punishments are not necessary and personally I wouldnt let others to touch my children. Many conflicts between the parents and the teaching authorities might arise due to this policy. I had a very good education, I went to a catholic school and my teachers I remember never touched us or disrespected us, yet they knew how to impose discipline. Beating children will only reflect a poor structure in the system and lack of classroom management skills on the teacher´s part. If you have a good lesson planning and your teaching style is engaging enough, then students wont be a problem and beating them wont be considered as an alternative at all. And if you insist in beating, well then at least give that responsability to the parents, dont put the burden on the teacher because conflicts and controversies will arise. The thing is so far, I have seen amongst muslim families, that they dont talk to the children as the intelligent beings they are. Parents dont explain things to children, they just tell them what to do, without any reasoning, and of course as children dont understand the reasons behind the orders, they tend to disobey. Treat children as mature beings and they will behave as such.I would focus more in the phase of prevention. So inshaAllah think about it and maybe do some benchmarking with other educative systems. In terms of pedagody techniques there is a lot to learn from groups as the Salesians of Don Bosco. I also recommend you to listen Hamza Yusuf´s lectures on Islamic Education and read Dumbing us down by Jhon Taylor Gatto. The worse thing about western education is that it prevents children from growing up mentally, their pursue is to perpetuate childhood mind state so they never become critical active citizens. They just train them to be sheeps and to follow the system blindly. The islamic system on the contrary, should help the human being to reach its peak in intellectual and emotional development before the hormones reach their own peak so the mind controls the body and not the other way around. In other words, lets think about some examples from amongst the earlier muslims like Aisha who was so young but yet she was a lot more mature than the teenagers today, and the 17 years old man who was choosen as the leader of the army by the prophet (saw) ...that is our goal inshaAllah. |
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Rizmie Ziard
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Yes the diminishing muslim culture and the infiltration of western culture can be seen in most countries. This is also due to the lacking of good recognised Islamic Universities and the demand for British Universities which systermaticaly brain washes our brothers and sisters who have very little knowledge of the Islamic economic system or way of life. They bring back to their countries the western ideologies and culture after studying in these universities. I dont believe we should not go to these universites but we should be strong in terms of ideology to change an excisting system rather than a system changing us. We should develop our analytical thinking to analyse the capitalistic system with the Islamic system. During my lecture in a leading university about "The economic crisis and the Islamic Solution" it was amazing to find out that leading muslim leacturers and students had no knowledge that an Islamic economic system excisted. |
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Dr Q A
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AA... Congratulations on a good effort however I feel there is need for some criticism about certain things... The last part on page 12 where it talked about "beating being allowed to be applied when necessary" totally reduced the value of this paper in my eyes... This is because I believe it is irresponsible to talk about beatings in an environment when Muslims have not been properly cultured in Islam... I have seen these rules being abused by adults against children which ultimately create nothing but total hate for both the subject matter as well as the adult administering the punishment... So what type of beating are you talking about? Does the adult have the right to beat a younger man black and blue? and why do you even mention beating when Islam is a deen of fitrah and its rules and ideas are accepted and followed naturally with willingness by Muslims who are brought up in the right environment... what good is prayer when it is performed for fear of a beating instead of understanding its obligation and its reasons... Essentially it is a failure of the Parent/Adult if their child is not praying willingly by the age of 10... I would advise policy makers of the Hizb to be careful when they are talking about matters such as these... It makes them look like the typical Mullahs of our times instead of the enlightened leaders that they claim to be... Masalama Dr Q A |
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