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| Madrasah Tahfiz Baitul Mahabbah 2013 |
Moulana Yusuf Motala Saahib
The Christian
community has the Church, the Jewish community has its Synagogue, the Hindu
Community has its Mandir, the Sikh community has the Gurdwara and the Buddhists
have their Temple and so on…..But the Muslim community not only has the Musjid
but also the educational Madrasah. has blessed the Muslims with such a great,Alhamdulillah, Allah bounty where children from as young as five
learn to read the Qur'an, Islamic History, Manners and Etiquettes, Hadith
(Traditions of Nabi ), Fiqh (Basic Islamic Rulings) and much more. This is also
where children complete Hifz (the memorisation of 30 chapters, 114 Surahs and
6236 verses of the Holy Qur'an). This in itself is a , but the message I am
trying to get across is that,miracle of Allah
the Madrasah system is a bounty which, through the efforts of our pious
predecessors, for hundreds of years, has educated us and has saved many of us
from becoming completely neglectful of the Deen. How many Jews can read the
Torah in its original Hebrew text? How many Christians can read the Bible in
its original Aramaic text? How many Sikhs and Hindus can read their respective
books in their original text? Today more than 80% of Muslims can read the Holy
Qur'ān in its original Arabic text. This is all through the blessings of the
madrasah which even your local ālim owes a great deal to. Through the madrasah, an individual bases his or her moral values
which carries them throughout their life. Unfortunately, nowadays we don't
value the madrasah as much as our predecessors did. Islamic education is being
disregarded. Instead of sending our children to the Madrasah to gain the
necessary Islamic knowledge and practice, we would rather send them to an
after-school homework club or to football practice. We have this attitude and
tend to think that when our son or daughter has completed the recitation of the
Holy Qur'an once or twice, then their Islamic education is complete. We don't
fully realise the spiritual benefit of the madrasah. As soon as a child steps
out of the house, he or she becomes exposed to various kinds of evil
temptations and mischief. The child falls prey to the tricks of Shaytān. As
soon as they enter environments where there is little respect of teachers and
the child sees the area as unsanctified, flirtation becomes a thing of the
norm, swearing becomes a core part of the limited vocabulary, slander and
backbiting become the discussions of the day. So many other vices become part
of the child’s everyday life. But when a child comes home, performs Wudhu and
then goes to the Madrasah, he will be safeguarded from these satanic practices.
The 0child will sit in such an environment
where the words of Allah are recited in
melodious tunes, stories of the Ambiyā
are mentioned, and Sunnahs are explained. What can be a more virtuous
gathering than this? It is for this reason that I plead to all parents not to
withdraw their children at a young age because of what has been mentioned. A mcouple of hours of madrasah a day,
really can keep Shaytān away!
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