›  
   
  Chapters
1. Our Submissions
2. It all starts from here
3. A word of truth
4. And now about duties
5. Organization Education
6. Art of Education
7. Ethics and Etiquettes
8. Appreciation and Acclamation
9. Love and Affection
10. Knowledge and skill
  11.   Work
      11.1 Balanced Life
      11.2 Pious passions
      11.3 Justice demanded
      11.4 Approach and style
      11.5 Organization and method

 

 

THE PRINCIPLE OF EDUCATION (UP' BRINGING)
In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful
2. IT ALL STARTS FROM HERE

Every nation dreams of progress, every community is in search of peace, every race is desirous of safety and harmony! Like all, Muslims too wish to lead an honorable life, with peace and tranquil, of contentment and satisfaction

Well ! at present it is beyond our scope to survey the needs and outcomes of other nations. Presently we are concentrating upon the Islamic world, and only they are our primary focus. However, at this juncture, two issues need to be well understood. Firstly, the meaning of "nation" and "community"? and secondly, how can the earnest desire of individual and collective success could bear fruits?

"Nation", according to the sociologists, "is a group or community among human beings, linked together by a common heritage, traditions, customs, history and system of economy, and is habituated in a particular geographical location, desirous of living under the influence of a particular government", and its members consider that all reforms and multidimensional development and progress is only possible through nationalism. They believe that all the evils would fall apart, the day the nationalism succeeds, and would be first day of heavenly bliss.

However, it is noteworthy that Islam call upon the group of it's believers as "community" or "Ummah" rather than a nation.1 and also distinguishes the qualities and distinctions of Ummah, from the known concept of a "Nation". The details of these qualities reveal that in no way the thinking approach, and the
___________________________

1. The Holy Quran has also frequently referred to the word "nation", but at instances where the concept of the "collective being" of the Muslims is being introduced, the Quran adopts the phraseology of "ummah" or "millat'. Therefore in the 78th verse of Surah Hajj it is mentioned.
"This is the "millat" of your father lbrahim. Allah has named you "Muslim" in the old scriptures, and Quran too bears the same name for you"
Also in the 143rd verse of Surah al-Baqar, it guides us as follow:
"Oh Muslims! in this way have we designated you as an
Ummah on the right path (Ummah-e-was'at), so that you may be a witness upon the people of the world and the Prophet be a witness upon you"

 
« Previous              Next »