Caring for religious materials in the school curriculum
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The questioner:
'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz. If one of us has children studying in the primary school stage, and he looks through the religious science books these days, he will be surprised by a severe and destructive abridgment, in my view. While you find other books, for example, mathematics and science books, to be large and bulky, I do not know. What is the comment of Your Eminence, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz, on this matter, and his guidance regarding it?
The Shaykh:
By Allah, this is undoubtedly something that must be observed, not only from the perspective of knowledge but also from the perspective of measuring the behavior of the girls. It must be observed, and the religious materials must be given complete care. It is obligatory for the responsible parties to have specialized committees of scholars, people of insight, and people of integrity who attend to this matter, so that the religious science classes are worthy of care and are given the sufficient curricula and sufficient time they deserve. This is one of the most important matters. It is obligatory for the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, and the head of the work regarding girls, and it is incumbent upon them to care for the schools, including the private schools. They must care for this and give the religious materials and religious books the greatest and most profound care. This is because the servants were created to worship Allah and obey Him, and there is no way to this except by caring for the Noble Qur'an, the pure Sunnah, and the books of the scholars who have a true standing in this Ummah. This is so that the male and female student emerges with insight and good, beneficial knowledge, by which he knows the ruling of Allah, knows the noble biography, and knows what he must avoid from what Allah has forbidden, and he proceeds on a path of insight.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. This is a striking point, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz, because for example, the third-grade primary curriculum contains only two surahs in the Qur'an: al-'Alaq and al-Ghashiyah. But when you come to the mathematics or science book, you find a very large, bulky book that reaches approximately one hundred pages.
The Shaykh:
I hope that it will be facilitated for us, with my brother scholars, to give this attention. Thank you. Perhaps it will be facilitated to achieve, if Allah wills, guidance to what is better. This is obligatory upon us and upon my brother scholars and the people of knowledge. We ask Allah to make that easy. And perhaps this topic, if Allah wills, will be presented to the greatest scholars, and thereby, if Allah wills, the hoped-for good will be achieved.
'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz. If one of us has children studying in the primary school stage, and he looks through the religious science books these days, he will be surprised by a severe and destructive abridgment, in my view. While you find other books, for example, mathematics and science books, to be large and bulky, I do not know. What is the comment of Your Eminence, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz, on this matter, and his guidance regarding it?
The Shaykh:
By Allah, this is undoubtedly something that must be observed, not only from the perspective of knowledge but also from the perspective of measuring the behavior of the girls. It must be observed, and the religious materials must be given complete care. It is obligatory for the responsible parties to have specialized committees of scholars, people of insight, and people of integrity who attend to this matter, so that the religious science classes are worthy of care and are given the sufficient curricula and sufficient time they deserve. This is one of the most important matters. It is obligatory for the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, and the head of the work regarding girls, and it is incumbent upon them to care for the schools, including the private schools. They must care for this and give the religious materials and religious books the greatest and most profound care. This is because the servants were created to worship Allah and obey Him, and there is no way to this except by caring for the Noble Qur'an, the pure Sunnah, and the books of the scholars who have a true standing in this Ummah. This is so that the male and female student emerges with insight and good, beneficial knowledge, by which he knows the ruling of Allah, knows the noble biography, and knows what he must avoid from what Allah has forbidden, and he proceeds on a path of insight.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. This is a striking point, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz, because for example, the third-grade primary curriculum contains only two surahs in the Qur'an: al-'Alaq and al-Ghashiyah. But when you come to the mathematics or science book, you find a very large, bulky book that reaches approximately one hundred pages.
The Shaykh:
I hope that it will be facilitated for us, with my brother scholars, to give this attention. Thank you. Perhaps it will be facilitated to achieve, if Allah wills, guidance to what is better. This is obligatory upon us and upon my brother scholars and the people of knowledge. We ask Allah to make that easy. And perhaps this topic, if Allah wills, will be presented to the greatest scholars, and thereby, if Allah wills, the hoped-for good will be achieved.
Source
على طريق الدعوة — islamhouse.com (42:23)
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