Caring for Religious Materials in School Curricula
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The questioner:
The questioner: Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, if one of us has children studying in the primary school stage and he starts flipping through the religious science books these days, he will be surprised by a severe and destructive brevity, in my view. Meanwhile, you find other books, for example, the mathematics and science books, to be large and bulky. I do not know. What is the comment of Your Eminence Shaykh Abdul Aziz on this matter and his guidance in it?
The Shaykh:
The Shaykh: This is undoubtedly something that must be observed, because it concerns the knowledge aspect, not the aspect of measuring actions, regarding 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 trust who attend to this matter, so that the religious science curricula receive the care they deserve and are given sufficient curricula and sufficient time. This is one of the most important matters. It is obligatory for the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, and the apparatus for liberating the country, and for everyone, to care about the schools. The private schools must care about this and give the religious materials and religious books the greatest and most profound care, because the servants were created to worship Him 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 of knowledge who have a significant status in this Ummah, so that the male and female student emerges with clarity and with good, beneficial knowledge, by which he knows the ruling of Allah, knows the noble biography, knows what he must avoid from what Allah has forbidden, and proceeds with vision, walking on clarity.
The presenter:
The questioner: This is something that draws attention, Shaykh Abdul Aziz, because for example, the third primary grade curriculum contains only two surahs of the Qur'an: al-'Alaq and al-Ghashiyah, whereas when you take the mathematics or science book, you find a very large, bulky book, meaning it reaches approximately one hundred pages. Our Shaykh, perhaps in the future, may Allah willing, guidance will be given toward what is better. This is obligatory upon us and upon our brothers the Shaykhs and scholars. We ask Allah to make that easy, and perhaps this topic will be mentioned to the benefit of the scholars' excellence.
The Shaykh:
The Shaykh: That will be achieved.
The presenter:
The Shaykh: May Allah grant you good.
The questioner: Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, if one of us has children studying in the primary school stage and he starts flipping through the religious science books these days, he will be surprised by a severe and destructive brevity, in my view. Meanwhile, you find other books, for example, the mathematics and science books, to be large and bulky. I do not know. What is the comment of Your Eminence Shaykh Abdul Aziz on this matter and his guidance in it?
The Shaykh:
The Shaykh: This is undoubtedly something that must be observed, because it concerns the knowledge aspect, not the aspect of measuring actions, regarding 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 trust who attend to this matter, so that the religious science curricula receive the care they deserve and are given sufficient curricula and sufficient time. This is one of the most important matters. It is obligatory for the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, and the apparatus for liberating the country, and for everyone, to care about the schools. The private schools must care about this and give the religious materials and religious books the greatest and most profound care, because the servants were created to worship Him 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 of knowledge who have a significant status in this Ummah, so that the male and female student emerges with clarity and with good, beneficial knowledge, by which he knows the ruling of Allah, knows the noble biography, knows what he must avoid from what Allah has forbidden, and proceeds with vision, walking on clarity.
The presenter:
The questioner: This is something that draws attention, Shaykh Abdul Aziz, because for example, the third primary grade curriculum contains only two surahs of the Qur'an: al-'Alaq and al-Ghashiyah, whereas when you take the mathematics or science book, you find a very large, bulky book, meaning it reaches approximately one hundred pages. Our Shaykh, perhaps in the future, may Allah willing, guidance will be given toward what is better. This is obligatory upon us and upon our brothers the Shaykhs and scholars. We ask Allah to make that easy, and perhaps this topic will be mentioned to the benefit of the scholars' excellence.
The Shaykh:
The Shaykh: That will be achieved.
The presenter:
The Shaykh: May Allah grant you good.
Source
صفحات من رحلتي العلمية [ صفحات من حياة الشيخ ابن باز ]، صفحات من حياة الشيخ عبد العزيز بن عبد الله بن باز — islamhouse.com (41:44)
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