While I agree that creativity must be nurtured for our society to be all that it can be, our society also needs to reaffirm its foundational cornerstone to maintain a common framework to build upon. In this way we need children to know all aspects of who we are as a people, as a nation, and to what common beliefs we can turn to seek social harmony, equality, and justice.
These detractors of the changes to the curriculum need to propose changes that respect the core goal of the path the reforms are trying to make, while finding ways that encourage the creativity and an inquisitive mind. Perhaps they should fund libraries and require children be allowed to take out any book from the library and be given time in school to be read and ask the teachers about it. Building a science museum each each city where kids can take a trip to will allow kids to wonder and persue the field of it interests them. Funding Children’s programming on television is a very effective way to encourage children to be creative and ask questions.
In the mean time, we have a literacy crisis that undermines civic participation and basic employability among the vast majority of the work force.
Northern Europe (Protestant Europe) reconciled this when it set out circa 1500 to be industrious. They don’t call it the Protestant work ethnic for nothing. One of Niall Ferguson’s 6 killer apps that enabled the west to beat the rest. This curriculum should be geared to building the Muslim work ethic, Fisibillah, for the sake of Allah.
BTW, of the other 5 killer apps; Pakistan has a consumer society. It needs to leave in creativity encouraging education and give enough funding as the economy improves to reinforce the Scientific method. There need to be a reform to the legal system so that property rights and ease of doing business improve to world standards. There is a need to fund health care and the pharmaceutical industry do that we can produce ad even develop our own treatments to our own health problems, and finally we need to improve rule of law so that contracts can be enforced quickly and so that business can get on with the business of competition with enough other to keep ever improving.
The Chinese have had great success educating the population by rout memorization but have limited creativity, which they are trying to reconcile.
If any further proof of why the foundations of society need to be reinforced and what unchecked liberal philosophy can do to a society, one need only look at the works of Chris Hedges. He documents how the Democratic party in the US has betrayed the working class due to there liberal illusions.
Excellent post, as a health professional myself, as well as a life-long student of Islamic fiqh and Islamic history, I agree wholeheartedly with what you wrote.
We Muslims need to go back to what made us successful from the beginning, which were the teachings of Prophet Muhammad saws.
We also should not be afraid to adopt any new technologies or ways of thinking to benefit our people and societies, as long as they do not contradict Islam.
If we adopt Western or Chinese methods, we need to own it for ourselves and not copy paste blindly, as then we will have the same problems in our society as they have.
We learn from the best anyone has to offer, even if they are our avowed enemies like Israelis, and benefit Pakistan and Pakistanis.
Iran is a good model to emulate in this endeavor. They have a very robust Islamic-oriented system which is producing religious minded scientists, etc.
I would very much like it if you are right.
However, as far as I know in the last 1000 years there has been no perfect Islamic society.
So, I am a little pessimistic that one can be brought about in the next 20 years.
No perfect society has functioned except under prophets and sahabah, tabaeen.
The goal is not to create a perfect society, but the closest to it, in light of the teachings of Quran and Sunnah.
In just a century, the Western capitalist order is collapsing, Communism collapsed in even less time, so Islam still has the longest lasting civilization and governing system.
yeeeeah, that is because the secular governments are the ones who do the killing, so they do not need any non-state orgs. NATO, Russia, USA all have killed, pillaged and murdered hundreds of thousands. actions do speak louder than words.
They declare their organized killing machines as the only proper use of force, then declare all resistance to it as terrorism.
the white overlords are the ones that caused the split in Dunyawi and Deeni education in the first place, and also nothing to do with the fact that the education system that they put in place was meant to produce coconuts who were more loyal to the crown than to their land,
Islam sees no separation between reason and religion. In Islam, unlike Christianity, logic/reason leads to Islam inevitably.
A ''certain group'' that have already infested all of the western world with their ideas are now targeting non-conformist states. A glimpse into their modus operandi is as follows;
1- Religion bashing.
2- Morality basing.
3- Criticism of family life.
4- Call human a social animal (emphasize on the animal part) and argue that suppressing animalistic urges is a hindrance in the progress of society.
5- Have sex with anyone and anything indiscriminately as long as there is consent.
6- Steady bombardment of sentences like "there is no god" or ''god is not real'' etc. through popular media.
7- Mock and criticise people's religiosity. Marginalize those who would stick to their way of life by designating them, fundamentalists.
The list goes on but these are some of the basics. Pakistan is still in the initial stages and this evil needs to be nipped in the bud before it is too late.
You put it quite well. Jazak Allahu khairan.
But the Quran is not the book of physics. If it is then we should banned Physics books in Physics class and should try to force Quran in Physics class.
Ridiculous comment.
As per the Islamist, Quaid e Azam was a Kafir or a traitor.
He was a Wali of Allah swt, who had visions from him. A mureed of Allama Iqbal, another Wali, who was gifted with sacred hidden knowledge.
We left our destiny in their hands because we trusted them, and we have been thanking them ever since.
Jis bhanda Allah pe bharosa karta he, who kabhi mayoos ni hota.
