'REDEFINE EDUCATION'

Maulana Maududi(a.r) has emphatically argued that, “ The
world is like a train which is being run by the engine of research and thinking, thinkers
and scholars are its
drivers…. The general people have no choice
but to proceed into the direction where their drivers are
heading …. to change the course of journey there in no second
option than to capture the engine and to alter its direction ….
Till then despite all our hue and cry, screams and pleases
the train will go on and on where its
materialist drivers are
taking it. ”

The intellectual acumen of Muslim
world could be easily
estimated – follow me – Muslims are 150
crore in 660 crore world population. The ratio of total number of research articles
produced - Muslim VS rest is 1/200. Let us be more precise 3000 PhDs are awarded
annually per million population in the
west as compared to only 32 amongst Muslims. Analysing the intellectual
drought prevalent in Muslim community
Maulana Maududi
challenged AMU students. “I assure you
that even if you are presented as a free gift, a particular piece
of territory to rule over, you will not be able, as things go now, to administer it according to Islamic
principles even for a single day.
You have made no
preparations to train or educate people
imbued with the moral spirit and
possessed of the
intellectual attitude which is necessary
for running an Islamic State, its police, law courts, army, revenue
and its financial
educational or
foreign policy, ” This
prophecy manifested itself in the so called “Islamic” state of Pakistan.
The need is thus to create general awareness regarding
education. Scholarships must be
provided at all levels of education for the poor, needy as well as highly skilled ‘gems’ of Ummah.
Syllabus of madarsas need to be modernised and
provision must
be made to impart basic Islamic teach to the students of every school and college. Critical thinking must be promoted among students through camps,magazines
and special programmes. A
planned development of talents is required because besides doctors and engineers, we are
seriously in need of
economists, political scientists, media
persons, sociologist, jurists and historians of Islamic character:
The people who could
define Islam in
contemporary
vocabulary, establish at least ideological superiority of Islam
over other ideologies and present Islam as the most viable alternative to solve
the world’s problems,
which Islam indeed is.

Regards:
____mbu____