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Dear
Mubashir Salam I have
downloaded the Quranic Studies Program and studying it. Certainly it shows
the hard work you have done and the presenting quality this course has.
However, I have some observations which I think should be considered. This
course is structured on some selected verses translation and then some
practical works i.e. case studies, field work, personality growth, etc. now
there are certain problems in this approach. 1) You
set a topic and select some part of Quran. Off course this selection has this
topic but as you know Quran discuss many things simultaneously. While you
only provide translation, and I understand that the pure translation does not
describe the nazm (coherence), the circumstances, the background etc.,
which give a reader full understanding of what Allah is saying and why. So a
reader will find many irrelevant things along with the topic. So if the
purpose of this course is to study the selection of Quran then it is not
fulfilling the job except giving translation which can be found anywhere. 2)
Secondly every topic is actually covered in many other verses of Quran. So as
a matter of fact the topic also not covered fully. Since many more important
things are actually not in these verses. So a person also does not get the
full knowledge of all aspects of this particular subject or topic. 3) The
nature of this work is more like a text book which always requires a teacher
who explains everything, but problem is that the way it is managed it is
actually self-study program. 4) Even
the exercise are mostly an "extra work" for the student. Until
unless the student is fully self-motivated he/she will find it difficult to
do all exercises. I do not
mean to discourage you but as a matter of fact I have been working on an idea
of making a course for a common man for last 3 years so that is why I am able
to comment on this work. When you come to Pakistan, I will give you a full
presentation of what I have designed for a common man on the basic of Quran
and hadith, which not only covers all the aspect of the essential knowledge
but also covers the entire Quran. and large part of hadith. So it is better
that we discuss this in details and then we may come to a better educational
program for a common man. Regarding
the second, third and fourth level, I also have some suggestion which I will
give you when you come. One more
thing I have added two chapters in the beginning of my novel. I am sending
you and will request you to send me your feedback asap. thanks
again Rehan Ahmed Yousfi September
2010 |
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Dear
Brother Wa alaikum us salam wa Rahmatullah Many
thanks for providing detailed comments. I appreciate your valuable comments.
Before commenting on them, I want to share an important matter. While
thinking about the idea of establishing a Religious Educational Empire,
the question of our target audience and their needs arises because we have
not yet conducted a detailed analysis of our target audience and their
educational needs. We have also not agreed upon our coordinated strategy about
the target audiences. So let us do that. Based on
the factor of perceptibility and learning style of our target audience, we
can divide them into four major groups. Then each group can be split into
sub-groups. The definition of each group is as follows: Group A The
people who are away from the religion. They neither read religious books nor
like to watch some religious videos. They do not want to learn the religion.
They can be split further into two groups: (1)
People who are against the religion and are atheists; (2)
People who are not against the religion itself but are heedless and careless
about it. The
majority of Pakistani society belongs to this second sub-group of Group A
(may be 60-70% of entire population). Sub-group 1 is very limited in our
society although it is very common in the Western societies. At the
moment, neither you nor I could target them for religious education. The only
way to approach them is the electronic media because they have no reading habits,
but the problem is that they don't watch religious programs. Therefore, only
one method is left to deliver them the message of Islam is to use fine arts.
If some God-fearing producer make movies, dramas
etc. to convey Allah's message to them, they can be aproached
The objective of such artistic products should be to bring them into Group B
which I have discussed below. All
people who are working for Islamic Da’wah and
Education are currently not targeting this group at all except the Tablighi Jama’at
who knock doors to convey the message of God. It is possible that Brother Saifullah and his sons may target this group. Brother Aqil may also target some of them while teaching at his
college but you and me cannot. Group B The
people who like the religion and want to follow it. Due to their lifestyles,
they have no reading habits. They do not have enough time to attend religious
programs. This group is the second largest in our society and may constitute
about 20-30% of our population. You are
targeting such group by your religious videos and talk shows etc. Since you
have recording equipment and a good team, you can target them. Due to my
circumstances, it is not possible for me. So I have left this group as well.
You can target them with an objective to move them into the Group C that is
discussed below. Group C The
people who like the religion and are serious to follow it. They have reading
habits but lack self-motivation and persistence. They can dedicate some of
their time for religious education. This is a small minority which may be
2-3% (or may be 5-10%, if we are very optimistic) of our society. After
learning the basic or intermediate concepts of religion, they can convey it
to their family and friends in an informal way. Through Ishraq Dawah, you
are targeting this group. Brother Aqil also had
made his mission to target it. All of your educational programs at your
religious education center are directed towards this group. Not only you, almost all of our religious movements are also
targeting only this group. I have
some interest in targeting this group but it is not at my top priority. My
personality development program, travelogues, novels, question-answer service
etc. are the products for this segment. But as I said, targeting them is not
my No. 1 priority. This
group is mainly your target audience. I'm available to support you for that.
If some of them moves to the Group D, he may become
my target audience. Group D These are
the people who make the religion their No. 1 priority. They have strong reading
habits and are full of self-motivation and persistence. They are willing to
go for great lengths in order to learn the religion. They can dedicate
significant portion of their time for religious education. There are
an extremely small portion of our society (may be 0.01%) but they have the
potential to become religious and intellectual leaders of future generations.
All people working for Islamic Education and Da’wah
belong to this group. As mentioned in the Bible, such people are "salt
of earth". During my
23 years’ experience of the religious services, I've reached to the
conclusion that Allah has specifically designed me to provide a humble
service to this group. Look at the available religious education system! If a
modern-educated person like each of us has a strong motivation to learn the
religion up to the highest level, no solution is available for him/her. All
programs of all religious establishments are designed mainly for the Group B
or C and nothing is available for the Group D. Only madrassas and some
modern universities are providing courses for them but they require full-time
attendance. I've a
long experience of interacting with a lot of such people from diverse
background. I found them wandering in search of true knowledge. Some of them
left their jobs and joined a madrassa. After spending several years,
they metamorphosed into a traditional moulvi
as anything fallen into a salt mine becomes salt. Some of them left their
jobs and joined a university but they became research scholars, not
reformers. Some of them including me conducted self-study or got private
instruction but consistency and a bstructured
approach was not available to us. As I know
about your programs, you are not targeting this group. You have restrained
yourself at the level of Group B or C. On the contrary, my personal
capabilities, circumstances and a strong zeal to serve such people resulted
eventually in the idea of "Islamic Studies Program" which has
become my No. 1 priority and life-time mission. In my
humble opinion, we should clearly define our target audience and dedicate
ourselves to their service. After that, we can provide support to each other
in doing his job. I think, let us make this idea the agenda for our meetings
during my visit at Karachi. Now I
comment on your ideas: Rehan: 1) you
set a topic and select some part of Quran. Off course this selection has this
topic but as you know Quran discuss many things simultaneously. Mubashir: Noted. I've
tried to give the title that arouses curiosity. It is like giving names to
the Surahs. The title may not describe the full content. Rehan: While
you only provide translation, and I understand that the pure translation does
not describe the nazm, the circumstances, the background etc., which give a
reader full understanding of what Allah is saying and why. Mubashir: This is
not the objective of the Level 1. The objective is to give them some idea
about the Quran, do some Tazkiya-Nafs and create
curiosity for the Level 2. Nazm and background will be discussed in detail at
Level 2 onwards. I've given some exercises for that in order to develop their
curiosity. Rehan: so a
reader will find many irrelevant things along with the topic. so the if the purpose of this course is to study the
selection of Quran then it is not fulfilling the job except giving
translation which can be found anywhere. Mubashir: Simple
translation is available everywhere but "work on the Quran" is available
nowhere. Since my target is the Group D, so I think that it will create
enough curiosity to go to Level 2. Rehan: Secondly
every topic is actually covered in many other verses of Quran. So as a matter
of fact the topic also not covered fully. Since many more important things
are actually are not in these verses. So a person also does not get the full
knowledge of all aspects of this particular subject or topic. Mubashir: The
objective of Level 1 is to produce curiosity and develop a habit of pondering
into the Quran. The idea is not to provide full knowledge. That is the
objective of the Level 2 and 3. Rehan: The
nature of this work is more like a text book which always requires a teacher who
explains everything, but problem is that the way it is managed it is actually
self-study program. Mubashir: I agree
with your comment but that's what I can do practically at the moment. I've
also offered an online-tutor support for any questions of the students. Insha Allah, I have a plan in the long run to dedicate
myself fully as a teacher after leaving my profession and associating to this
program full-time. Pray for me that Allah provide circumstances in this
regard. That will be the Phase II of this project. After finishing the text
books, I'll try to arrange some students, teach the entire course and make
its videos available with the text books. After that, online Q/A service will
still be available. Since I'm
aiming for the self-motivated people only at the moment, so I hope that this
approach may be successful. Rehan: Even the
exercises are mostly an "extra work" for the student. Until and
unless the student is fully self-motivated he/she will find it difficult to
do all exercises. Mubashir: At the
moment, only the self-motivated people are targeted. The students who need a
push from the teacher are not targeted at all. Rehan: I do not
mean to discourage you but as a matter of fact I have been working on an idea
of making a course for a common man for last 3 years so that is why I am able
to comment on this work. When you come to Pakistan, I will give you a full
presentation of what I have designed for a common man on the basic of Quran
and Hadith, which not only covers all the aspect of the essential knowledge
but also covers the entire Quran and large part of Hadith. So it is better
that we discuss this in details and then we may come to a better educational
program for a common man. Mubashir: That's
excellent. If you've developed something, I'll just take your courses at
Level 1 of my program. That will help me in dedicating myself totally to the
advanced levels. So you (and Brother Aqil also)
specialize to educate a common man (usually Group B or C people) and I
specialize for the Group D. Frankly speaking, now I feel bored while
developing something for the beginners due to my dedication for the advanced
learners. Rehan: regarding
the second, third and fourth level, I also have some suggestion which I will
give you when you come. Mubashir: That's
what I need from you. If you've time, please jot down it in form of small
bullet points and send it to me before Eid. It will
help me in thinking about them and we could have a discussion at advanced
stage instead of starting it. Rehan: One
more thing I have added two chapters in the beginning of my novel. I am
sending you and will request you to send me your feedback asap. Mubashir: I'm
sending the comments on your novel in a separate email. Let's keep these
emails separately. It is possible that some student of future generations may
use these emails to analyze our strategies and work while writing the "Da'wah History of Islam in the 21st Century". Remember
in your supplications during Ramadan. wassalaam Mubashir |
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Salam I m sorry for getting late coz of Ramadan. Any ways, this was a blessing to be
late as i read the comments of Rehan and yours. I went
through the document, your comments and Rehan's commets. Rehan objections were valid from his point of
view. But your analysis of target audience nullified Rehan's
objections. Rehan has a particular bent of mind and specified target
audience. He believes more in personal interaction with a person for Dawah and he does not have more reliance upon
non-personal aids such as internet. Due to the fact, he is more inclined
towards traditional teacher-student relationship and the outcome is his
religious educational institute. As far as
you are concerned, you hardly have any options to perform your work on class
room style particularly in KSA. So it seems appropriate for you to rely upon
non-personal Dawah strategy like internet. Keeping
in view your constraints, objectives and target audience for your said
program, following are my comments: 1. The
selection of contents and Level 1 seem to be chosen randomly and apparently
they have no link with one another. For instance, one chapter talks about
economic issues and the other chapter describes about Hazrat
Suleman. If you are going to teach Uloom-ul-Quran, the chapters
should be titled and organized in a scientific manner. 2. The
case studies and other follow up exercises are very good. However, they ask
the reader a sort of academic assignments. For instance, if I m asked to prepare a report on the negative aspects of
interest, I will prepare an assignment but it is not necessary that it is my
own work. It may be copied from any internet source by just a copy paste.
Hence the thinking process you want to start in the mind of the reader may
not begin. 3. The
case studies are very much unstructured and open ended. There should be some
close ended short answers or multiple-choice questions or fill-in-the-blanks
to give the reader a concrete feedback on what he has learnt. 4. I
personally feel that Level 1 seems to be an EXTRA level for the advanced
beginners. Your target may be fulfilled by level 2 onwards. ھذا
ماعندی
والعلم
عنداللہ What is
your exact date of arrival in Pakistan and stay period? Where do u live in Karachi? Allah
Hafiz. Professor
Muhammad Aqil September
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Dear
Brother Assalam o alaikum wa Rahmatullah Many thanks
for your detailed comments and also appreciating the difference between the
approach and circumstances of Brother Rehan & me. Your points are very
valid and indicate your deep understanding of educational studies and its
hands-on practical experience. My response is as follows: Aqil: 1. The selection of contents and Level 1 seem to be
chosen randomly and apparently they have no link with one another. For
instance, one chapter talks about economic issues and the other chapter
describes about Hazrat Suleman.
If you are going to teach Uloom-ul-Quran,
the chapters should be titled and organized in a scientific manner. Mubashir: Yes,
the topics are a random selection of passages from the Quran. But the
criteria for selection are well-planned. I've tried to include a sample of
almost every type of the Quranic content e.g. prayers, Tazkiya
Nafs, ethics, Sharia’h,
history, faith & its arguments, hereafter, eloquent passages, issues of
modern life etc. It seems unorganized but you'll find some sort of personality
development (Tazkiya Nafs)
in each lesson which is the primary purpose of this course. The Uloom-ul-Quran
will be discussed in detail at Level 4 which you'll find well-organized and
coherent. Aqil: 2. The case studies and other follow up exercises are
very good. However, they ask the reader a sort of academic assignments. For
instance, if I’m asked to prepare a report on the negative aspects of
interest, I will prepare an assignment but it is not necessary that it is my
own work. It may be copied from any internet source by just a copy paste.
Hence the thinking process you want to start in the mind of the reader may
not begin. Mubashir:
Originality is not required at the Level 1. If a student just does copy-paste
and use some thinking over the assignment, it will be sufficient. But the
reality is that such assignments are not available somewhere else. The
student has either to think deeply himself or he has to select the material
from a lot of sources. In both cases, he has to think and that's what I require
at this stage. Aqil: 3. The case studies are very much unstructured and
open ended. There should be some close ended short answers or multiple-choice
questions or fill-in-the-blanks to give the reader a concrete feedback on
what he has learnt. Mubashir: I agree
with this. It is a weakness of this book. I'll try to create some
closed-ended questions. Most of the assignments require short answers. If the
student does not write the answer, still they instigate him to think and do
the assignment in his mind. As I said to Brother Rehan, that one of the
primary objectives of the Level 1 is to develop curiosity for the Quran. A
reader should not feel satisfied after completing Level 1. His curiousity should force him to go for Level 2. Aqil:
4. I personally feel that Level 1 seems to be an EXTRA level for the
advanced beginners. Your target may be fulfilled by level 2 onwards. Mubashir: That's
the fact. In the Quranic Arabic Program, I had the same experience. Level 2
was downloaded more than the Level 1. The reason is that most of the readers
are those who already know the basics. But beginners' level has its own
significance especially for those who have been inclined recently towards the
religious studies. At Level
2-3, I've a plan for comparative study of Tafasir
of both English & Urdu languages Insha Allah.
Level 4 will be for the advanced students and I'll try my best to cover
everything which has been discussed by the scholars of last 14 centuries
including Usool, history, questions of
orientalists, art of exegesis ...... etc. Aqil: What is your exact date of arrival in Pakistan and
stay period? Where do you live in Karachi? Mubashir: There
are two possibilities of my arrival at Karachi. Insha
Allah I'll be there either on 19 Sep - 22 Sep or 22 Sep - 25 Sep. I would
have to look for a hotel. What are your plans on these dates i.e. 19-25?
Would you be available? Remember
in your supplications during Ramadan. wassalaam Mubashir |
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مصنف
کی دیگر
تحریریں Quranic Arabic Program / Quranic Studies Program
/ علوم
القرآن
پروگرام / قرآنی
عربی
پروگرام / سفرنامہ
ترکی
/ مسلم
دنیا اور ذہنی،
فکری اور نفسیاتی
غلامی
/ اسلام
میں جسمانی و
ذہنی غلامی
کے انسداد کی
تاریخ / تعمیر
شخصیت
پروگرام /
قرآن اور
بائبل
کے دیس میں / علوم
الحدیث: ایک
تعارف / کتاب
الرسالہ:
امام شافعی کی
اصول فقہ پر
پہلی کتاب کا
اردو ترجمہ و
تلخیص
/ اسلام
اور دور حاضر
کی تبدیلیاں / ایڈورٹائزنگ
کا اخلاقی
پہلو سے
جائزہ / الحاد
جدید کے مغربی
اور مسلم
معاشروں پر
اثرات / اسلام
اور نسلی و
قومی امتیاز / اپنی
شخصیت اور
کردار کی تعمیر
کیسے کی
جائے؟
/ مایوسی
کا علاج کیوں
کر ممکن ہے؟ / دور جدید
میں دعوت دین
کا طریق کار / اسلام
کا خطرہ: محض ایک
وہم یا حقیقت / Quranic Concept of Human Life Cycle
/ Empirical Evidence of God’s Accountability
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