What is the guidance for one who wishes to work in the field of teaching?
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Question : Also, we would like to ask, Honorable Shaykh, what is your guidance for someone who wishes to work in the field of teaching after graduation, if Allah wills?
Answer : That is good as well. However, I say that teachers are divided into two categories. One category has no concern other than finishing the curriculum and moving on to the next, regardless of the student's behavior or guidance. The other category takes this into account because he is entrusted with it, and he attends to guiding the students. He says that caring for education is more important than completing the curriculum. This is the advising teacher. The first one, if Allah wills, is advising to the extent of his capacity, but this one is more so. This is the true teacher, because imposing good morals and good character with Allah and with people upon the students is the essence of the matter. And we do not know except to act. So I say: if you undertake teaching, you must do both: fulfill the obligation of completing the curriculum, and fulfill the obligation of education and guidance. But we hear that some teachers, may Allah guide them, when they enter the classroom, they occupy the students with things that have no benefit, neither in religion nor in worldly affairs. What happened to so-and-so, what happened to so-and-so, what so-and-so said, what so-and-so said. The whole hour passes like this, or mostly so. This is a mistake. This is a breach of the trust in the guidance entrusted to him. The most important thing is for a person to combine both. But the guidance should not be merely hearsay and "so-and-so said this, so-and-so said that," and the question remains unresolved. Rather, it should be guidance to the sound, straight path. Yes.
The presenter : Yes.
Answer : That is good as well. However, I say that teachers are divided into two categories. One category has no concern other than finishing the curriculum and moving on to the next, regardless of the student's behavior or guidance. The other category takes this into account because he is entrusted with it, and he attends to guiding the students. He says that caring for education is more important than completing the curriculum. This is the advising teacher. The first one, if Allah wills, is advising to the extent of his capacity, but this one is more so. This is the true teacher, because imposing good morals and good character with Allah and with people upon the students is the essence of the matter. And we do not know except to act. So I say: if you undertake teaching, you must do both: fulfill the obligation of completing the curriculum, and fulfill the obligation of education and guidance. But we hear that some teachers, may Allah guide them, when they enter the classroom, they occupy the students with things that have no benefit, neither in religion nor in worldly affairs. What happened to so-and-so, what happened to so-and-so, what so-and-so said, what so-and-so said. The whole hour passes like this, or mostly so. This is a mistake. This is a breach of the trust in the guidance entrusted to him. The most important thing is for a person to combine both. But the guidance should not be merely hearsay and "so-and-so said this, so-and-so said that," and the question remains unresolved. Rather, it should be guidance to the sound, straight path. Yes.
The presenter : Yes.
Source
لقاء الشيخ مع طلبة كلية الشريعة وأصول الدين بالقصيم — archive.org (1:07:54)
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