ISLAMIC EDUCATION

Author : ASIM

Each Muslim desire next generation to be a true Muslim. This ambition about generation to generation can be met by only Islamic education .So it is very needed  Islamic education for Islamic society. 

Islamic education helps to implement the Islamic principles in all walks of life. So it is the process to make the society an Islamic one in all respects. Islamic education gives a method to reshape life pattern on Islamic lines. 

Islamic education system:

Education system means a collection of all elements which are organized and coordinate in such way that they became a unit for the acquisition of aims of education. The following are the elements of education system: 

• Aims of education 
• Curriculum of education 
• Teachers training 
• Methodology 
• Educational administration 
• Educational planning and resources 
• Examination

Need for Islamic  education system

The Islamic education system is one, which has to be imbued with the basic elements of not only the universal religion, the Islam, but also of good earning for livelihood. The desire Islamic education system must contain both the components proposed. 

The education on religion should start from class 1 in the primary school and continue up to the completion of the master degree for every Muslim individual. This is in consonance with the Holy Quran "Man was created for nothing but worshiping Allah". So those who worship Allah are really on the right path. Moreover no ibadat is accepted to Allah from a person unless ha has earned "Halal Rozi"(honest livelihood), So for Islamic system of education should provide contents of Islamic teaching completely.

So a vital component of Islamic education is nothing but good earning for honest livelihood. It is the will of Almighty Allah that we take our food from the pure and best learning from the verses of Allah it is clear that man has to have good earning of  his livelihood. And good earning means to earn to livelihood most honestly. 

This is clean essential and inevitable injunction that man has to earn, by his own hand. On the basis of this component of Islamic education system should provide training facility to individuals for earning their livelihood.

The Quranic principles indicate the need for vocational leading to honest earnings: so, there is no other escape than to conclude that a sound education system must have these twin essential components namely those of

• Vocational provision for honest earnings
• The religious provisions for the study of Islam

Muslim educational reforms should produce educational literature, tarbiyah direction and school text book to help and guide parents and teachers in their successful efforts to rise the new psychologically and mention all healthy Muslim generation. 

In the process of Islamization of education books, curricula, teaching methods, indeed the entire corpus of the educational enterprise are to be brought in to conformity with the teaching of Islam.

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