Islamic Schools

Are Muslim Schools failing their students ?

If Muslims schools are unable to prepare their students in the mould that is shaped by Allah, then they have 'failed' their students, even though they may produce a hundred percent pass rate! The first purpose of Muslim Schools must be to produce good Muslims and dynamic leaders for the Islamic society. For this purpose, Tarbiyyah, sound Islamic moral training, must be an integral part of the school. This must be the very heart and soul of our education, and not a ceremonial husk. All plans for improving our education will be totally useless unless they are based on a full understanding of this key fact.

Today we find many internal problems in the Muslim society everywhere. If we think about it, we may realize that most of these problems are of our own making. Which is another way of saying that they are largely traceable, directly or indirectly, to the education system and institutions that produced the people who cause these problems.

Why are Muslim communities in the grip of so much materialism today? What should we expect when our entire education system is preaching the gospel of materialism? Why have we effectively relegated Islam to a small inconsequential quarter in our public life? Because that is precisely where our education system has put it. Why in our behavior toward each other we see so little display of Islamic manners and morals? Because our imported education system is devoid of all moral training. Why are our societies sick? Because our education system is sick.

This is the real crisis of education today. Previously, education was never like this. Education in the past was always the means of nurturing the human being. Moral training, tarbiyyah, was always an inalienable part of it. The ustaz,(teacher), was not just a lecturer or mere professional, but a mentor and moral guide. Good moral training as exhorted in the Hadith, was considered the best gift a teacher could present to his student. Sadly, this is no more.

Mufti Z.Bayat, Stanger

Assalaamu-alaikum ww

In my humble opinion, now more than ever is there a need for us to unite together and form Muslim Schools. Simply look around us and see what is being offered at the state schools. What is needed is good quality teaching within a safe shariah environment, something we can definitely do, as long as we make the effort together. What is essential, though, is to ensure that this effort is done under the guidance of the Ulema-e-Haq.

Here in Gloucester, we have established an 'Islamic' Nursery, Secondary School for Girls and have just started a Primary School with a Reception class.

This has all been done under the guidance of our respected Hadhrat Mufti Abdullah Sahib (D.B) (yep the same person who regularly answers questions on this same website and runs the foodguide website).

The girls school has now been running for over 12 years, whilst the nursery has been running for about 5 years. Last September Hadhrat Mufti Sahib started the Al-Ashraf Primary school.

So what about quality? Good question! I cannot explain how the Girls School manages to get excellent grades despite the meagre resources that it has. Alhumdulillah, it is only the mercy and grace of Allah (SWT) that the school continues to improve.

Recently, Ofsted have inspected the Girls School and the Nursery, please do try and read the reports at the Ofsted website - search for 'Gloucester islamic'

As always, finance is the major issue, our budget is only �150,000 yet the school outperformed all the other schools in the county for 'added value' i.e. how much we can improve the pupils' education over their school life. As the inspector from ofsted mentioned, our budget should be more like �500,000!

A humble request for dua's and support in these noble efforts and may Allah (SWT) continue to shower his mercy on our children and may He continue to 'lengthen the shadow' of our respected Hadhrat Mufti Abdullah Sahib (D.B) over us.

Aameen

Maybe you should have asked what my intention was first.

Let me explain so that maybe you feel guilty at taking my comments earlier the wrong way.

When i was a student at an Islamic school, any tom, dick or harry used to be appointed a teacher of a particular subject. So we had a maths teacher who knew nothing about the subject and we as kids were given a maths book which we would have to work out all ourselves.

We did not learn anything this way and also this caused problems for me further down the line. And then when a good teacher was found, they would not be paid and of course because although the teacher may have been doing it for Allahs sake, every human being with a family needs regular pay to survive. All i am saying is if you are going to open a school, you need to make sure there is stability, otherwise it is the students who suffer in the long run.

I was not trying to say my concerns were teachers not getting paid. I was trying to say the result of these actions are that the students suffer.

Unless you can find teachers who do not mind getting paid well over a month late!

I suffered thats all.

i second that, the time and effort the respected mufti sahib has put into the school and the foodguide and this website, he has nothing but our admiration and dua's. may Allah سبحانه وتعالى accept all his efforts and reward him abundantly in both worlds.

Insha'Allah we make dua that ulamah can get together.

The so called 'terror alert' school, Jamiah Islamiah, what happend with that after?

Tayyibah Girls School - excellent for disciplin, academic achievements and spirituality.
my eldest daughter attends tgs, there is a great difference in her. they start with reception. so its ideal to send them from young so they can be moulded naturally. rather then adopting the attitude where you say; "4 & 1/2 is way too young to send them."
if you send children at a much later age, they dont mould easily and they also take with them their bad habbits and influence other children.

i would like to know about 'Al-Falah'. is it doing well? also, is it part of Imam Zakariya on Romford Rd? i would like my son to start there at the earliest age posible (5).
Tawhid only accepts from the age of 11. (I think)

masha'allah, I really rate her for her bravery.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى guide her and keep her chaste always.

Darul uloom? Previous posts suggest there were 12 students, how many students are studying in the darul uloom? Who are the teachers over there?