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Educational empowerment for one and all

A man most punished on the Day of Judgment will be one who does not act on his knowledge thus could not benefit from his knowledge. We have been advised to respect one from whom we learn

Post by on Sunday, January 9, 2022

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Every Muslim whether free or slave has been made obliged by Allah (SWT) to learn some portions of the Quran (Qurtubi p 121, vol 3). Parents were made responsible by Islam for the education of children; otherwise parents were hurdle in the way of children education during jahiliyyah as the children were used for earning bucks for their parents. And it is true that if parents are not reformed and informed the education movement will never succeed anywhere. 

Parents were encouraged and they were given good tidings if they educate their wards: “It was said to them to take care of your children when your children are only seven years of age they should be commended to offer Salah and at the age of ten they should be admonished if they do not offer prayers and their beddings should be separated (Musnad Ahmad). One of the rights of a son on the father is to keep a good name of him, and make him educated and then marry him (Jamaah Sagheer). Give good Training to your children (Ibn Majah)

 

A parent who teaches his children the Quran will be given a crown on the Day of Judgment in paradise. Then masters were encouraged to educate their servants and it was said that three kinds of people will get double rewards a persons from the people of the Book and after unbelieving his respective prophet when he believes in the Prophet (SAW) that servant who serves   Allah (SWT) as well as his master and gives them their due and a person who has a concubine and gives her the best education and then frees her and marries her and thus provided her the best status in society. (Bukhari)

 

According to Qurtubi any believer whether man or woman free or slave it is incumbent on him or her to learn the Quran and get understanding of religion and then he recited the Qur’anic verse: wala kin konoo rabbaniyeen.

 

Then the third pillar of this movement is teacher his status and the systems of education of elevated. The best amongst you is one who reads and teaches the Quran. The best charity is that a person may learn knowledge and then give its education to his brother.” (Bukhari). Take to others though you may know a single verse. Everything of the world prays for a person who invites to good (khayr) (Tirmidhi)

 

On the other a person who hides knowledge if he knows that he will be taken to hell by a rope of fire (Tirmidhi). A man most punished on the Day of Judgment will be one who does not act on his knowledge thus could not benefit from his knowledge. We have been advised to respect one from whom we learn (Jamiah Sagheer). Hazrat Ali (RA) said anyone who teaches me even one word I am his slave.

 

 

 

The way of prophetic teaching was very instructive: The prophet (SAW) would ask a question or said something surprising or ask some question in form of a proverb or mystery and he would repeat one word thrice. The best thing for woman is to learn the Quran and read it and know argons of Islam and then work on wheel (Abu Naim).

 

A’ishah (RA) was knowing writing she had opened a Qur’anic school at her home. Aisha (RA) was knowing Fiqh better than many men. Apart from Arabic poetry and Ansab Arab medicine these Ulum she had learnt from her father Abu Bakr (RA). The prophet (SAW) had said learn half of the Ilm from Aisha.

 

Hazrat Aisha (RA) could read but not write but Hafsah (RA) could read and write both. The five Muslim women who were knowing reading and writing in early days of Islam were: Hafsah bint Umar, Ummi Kulthum bint Uqbah, Aisha bint Sad, Kareemah bint Miqdad and Al shaf’a bint Abdullah al adwiyyah who taught Hafsah (RA) and she was ordered to keep on teaching her after her marriage to the prophet (SAW). Hazrat Aisha (RA) and Hazrat Ummi Salmah (RA) from amongst the sacred wives of the prophet (SAW) knew reading but not writing.

 

Ibn Hajar has collected stories of 1543 women muhadithat in his book al Isabah fi Tameezi al sahabah same is the case with Nawi in Tahzib al Asma and khatib Baghdadi in Tarikh Baghdad.

 

 

(Author is Head, Department of Religious Studies, and Central University of Kashmir. Former Director, Shah-i-Hamadan Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Kashmir Srinagar. He can be reached on hamidnaseem@gmail.com)

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