The Educational objectives of Teaching

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The Educational objectives of Teaching

• Dr. Salah Soltan
• Director of educational and fatwa in ISGC.
• President of Islamic center for Islamc research.

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In the name Of Allah the most Gracious the most
merciful

• Allah sets forth (another) Parable of two men
  one of them dumb, with no power of any sort a
  wearisome burden is he to his master whichever
  way be directs him, he brings no good is such a
  man equal with one who commands Justice, and is
  on a Straight Way? An-Nahl Aya, 76

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Educational Objective

• 1. Knowledge
• Strong Idea Mind
• 2. Wijdaniyah
• Pure state of being natural (Fitrah) Heart
• 3. Behavioral
• Activism Soul

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Knowledge

• Knowledge of the creator
• Say For me, I (work) on a clear sign from my
  lord 657 AL-Anaam
• Rabbani
• Knowledge of the created
• Soon, We will show them our signs in the
  (furthest) regions (of earth) and in their own
  souls 4153 Fussilat
• Self
• Universal

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Knowledge of The Creator

• Revelation
• Quran
• Sunnah ( Practices of the Prophet SAW)
• Intellect

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Knowledge of The Creation

• Self
• Physiological
• Psychological
• Social
• Universal

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Knowledge of the created (Universal)

• Profound contemplation of the Universe
• Skies
• Sun
• Moon
• Stars
• Mountains
• Trees
• Food
• Rivers
• Oceans

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Nourishment of the Soul

• AL Ruboubiyyah Before Al Olouhiyyah
• (Mentioned 865 times) (Mentioned
  125 times)
• Blessings before Restrictions
• Mercy before Punishment

My Mercy has proceeded my resentment
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Wijdaniyyah

• Love Soon will Allah produce a people whom He
  will love as they will love Him
• Al-Maidah Aya 54

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• Beauty He Who has made everything which He has
  created most good He began the creation of man
  with (nothing more than) clay As-Sajdah Aya 7.
• Or, Who has created the heavens and the earth,
  and Who sends you down rain from the sky? Yea,
  with it We cause to grow well-planted orchards
  full of beauty of delight An-Naml Aya 60

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• Blessing If the people of the towns had but
  believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have
  opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from
  heaven and earth Al Araf, Aya 96

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• Mercy My mercy encompasses all things
  Al-Araf, Aya 156

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• Forgiveness Who forgiveth sin, accepteth
  repentance, is strict in punishment, and hath a
  long reach (in all things). There is no god but
  He to Him is the final goal Ghafir, Aya 3

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Behavioral

• Self
• Through self discipline.
• Others
• Through Dawah
• To Muslims
• To Non Muslims

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Self

• Through self discipline
• There are two items with no substitution for a
  Muslim in order to improve and purify ones soul
  and broaden his/her mind.

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• 1. Education which uplifts doubts and emphasizes
  the truth. Education clarifies what is
  mandatory, what is allowed, what is disliked, and
  what is forbidden by Allah.
• 2. The struggle within ones soul to control its
  desires, fulfill the obligations towards the
  creator, and to cleanse itself.

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• Al-Mojahada (Struggle within ones own self) is
  defined as getting ones own self to perform the
  mandatory, the requirements, and what pleases
  Allah and leaving the forbidden and what
  displeases Allah.

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• Ibn Al-Qayim states in Zad Al-Miaad (3/10), a
  servant of Allah will not be pious until he
  struggles to achieve the following four (4)
  items
• The struggle to learn guidance and the religion
  of the truth
• The struggle to work with this guidance
• The struggle to work on inviting to the truth
• The struggle to be patient with people in the
  difficult task of inviting to the way of Allah.

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Examples from string within oneself.

• 1. In the story of Talut (Saul)
• 2. Arabs before Islam

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In the story of Talut (Saul)

• Some people passed two tests and failed in the
  test of self control, even though this test was
  for an item that was halal. Tens of thousands of
  people claimed that they intend to fight in the
  cause of Allah. However when the order of Allah
  came to fight, they pulled back except a few.
  The few that went on with Talut had some
  knowledge of the characteristics of the leaders
  and agreed to go with him, some did not. When
  the people who passed both tests went out with
  Talut, some of them could not control their
  desires as the Quran tells us their story Then
  when Talut set out with the army, he said
  Verily! Allah will try you by a river. So
  whoever drinks thereof, he is not of me, and
  whoever tastes it not, he is of me, except him
  who takes (thereof) in the hollow of his hand.
  (2249).

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In the story of Talut (Saul) Contd

• Even the few who passed the third test, some of
  them failed in the test of being patient in
  facing the enemy in the battlefield. Allah the
  exalted said So when he had crossed it (the
  river), he and those who believed with him, they
  said We have no power this day against Jalut
  (Goliath) and his hosts. The only people left to
  fight are the ones who have strong deep faith,
  precise patience, those who strive within
  themselves to beat their desire.

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Arabs before Islam

• It was not easy for the Arabs to change from
  their condition before Islam which included
  drinking through the night, and being abusive and
  transgressors during the day. They changed from
  this status to being worshipers during the night
  and pious fasting people during the day. It must
  have taken a serious effort to change their
  condition. Allah even revealed at the end of
  Surat Al-Muzzamel (73) verses for the Muslims who
  were all Arabs to ease up on themselves and
  reduce the night prayers.

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How does new strive with oneself?

• 1. General ways to strive within oneself
• a. Bringing alive the love of Allah in our
  hearts. Loving Allah must be bigger than loving
  ourselves, our family, our kids, or our money.
  This is achievable by looking and contemplating
  the creation, the Holy Quran, and mentioning and
  remembering Allah. We have to also start enjoying
  the acts of worship such as night prayers and
  fasting.

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• b. Reviving the fear of Allah (SWT) by
  remembering the destination of the transgressors.
  The human needs to compare his/her condition with
  their condition. We have to compare all the
  blessings that Allah has given us with our
  actions. Do we do enough charity work? How many
  sins do we fall into daily? We have to remember
  death and its difficulties, we have to remember
  the grave that we will lie in, and we have to
  remember the hellfire and the heat of it. Ibn
  Abi Al-Donia narrates in his book Mohasabat
  Al-Nafs (Judging Oneself) that Ibrahim Al-Timi
  once said I imagined myself in paradise eating
  from its fruits, drinking from its rivers,
  hugging its women, then I imagined myself in the
  hellfire eating from its rotten food, drinking
  from its disgusting drinks. So I asked myself,
  which life do you want? I replied I wish to go
  back to live again so I could do good. Then I
  said to myself, you are already alive, so you
  have your wish.

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• c. The strong will and desire to face ones
  desire with fearing Allah and hoping for the
  mercy of Allah. We must believe that no matter
  how weak one could be, if we ask for Allahs
  help, he will help us. Prophet Yusuf (AS) when he
  was tempted by the wife of the Treasurer of Egypt
  he said O my Lord1 Prison is dearer to me than
  that to which they invite me. Unless You turn
  away their plot from me, I will feel inclined
  towards them and be one of the ignorant.
  (1433). Allah (SWT) helped Yusuf with a strong
  will to reject lustful desires and accept a
  prison sentence for a crime he did not commit. He
  kept himself busy in jail inviting others to the
  way of Allah. Until Allah (SWT) gave him freedom
  because of his patience. We have to ask Allah
  with complete belief that he will give us. As
  narrated in the hadith listed in Bukhari If
  you ask Allah (SWT), ask him for the upper
  Ferdous of paradise, meaning the highest most
  desirable place in paradise.

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2. Special ways to strive within oneself.

• The special ways for striving within oneself
  depends on how honest is the servant with Allah
  (SWT). He/she must know what are his/her
  weaknesses so they dont put themselves in a
  situation where they are subjected to temptations
  they could not resist, therefore one of the
  righteous people once said I could be trusted
  with this earths gold and silver, however I can
  not trust myself being alone even with a slave
  woman even for one hour.

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• Therefore, I would like to offer the following
  examples as special ways to strive within our own
  self
• 1. If one is used to a habit such as drinking
  tea or coffee, therefore they should struggle
  and strive within themselves as mentioned by
  Imam Shahid Hassan Al-Banna to give it up so
  they are not dependent on it.

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• 2. One should leave once in a while a type of
  food that is available on the dinner table, this
  way you are training yourself on self control.
• 3. If one brother or sister is used to spending
  unwisely even in charity, he/she should strive
  within themselves to control their spending
  little by little. On the other hand, if one is
  cheap, then they should strive to spend in the
  cause of Allah on his family, relatives and
  charitable organizations.

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• 4. If one gets angry and easily loses control,
  then one should observe himself and his tempers.
  One must remember that it is the strong that
  can control himself when angry.Therefore if one
  gets angry on something that is not for the sake
  of Allah, then one must condition himself by
  fasting or praying through the night. We must
  remember that if two people fight with each
  other, it is the better one who forgives first
  and goes to makes peace.

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• 5. There are brothers and sisters who dont
  like reading, they think it is boring. These
  people must strive within themselves to
  establish organized readings. They could start
  with small books then move on to bigger books.
• 6. If desiring women is always on ones mind, or
  looking at advertisement or TV shows that have
  almost naked women, then fasting is the cure, or
  keeping busy with his family or hurrying to get
  married if he was not married. He must keep busy
  at all times as to keep with pure thoughts and
  actions at all times.

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Conclusion

• Our Objective
• Is to produce educators who enjoy
• sophisticated intellect.
• Pure heart to maintain a strong Faith.
• Fine character necessary for proper activism.

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Jazkumu Allah Khairan

• Let us act on what we have learned as sincerely
  as possible .