The Educational, Formative and Reform Movement
The establishment of the Dīn
That the faith becomes alive in practice.
The movement rests on a simple claim: the indispensable knowledge of the faith should reach every Muslim, and the nearest place for that to happen is the mosque. The mosque should not remain only a place of prayer — it should become a centre of teaching and formation.
Three things are needed for that: a curriculum pitched at the ordinary person, a team able to teach it, and courses that actually convene. The curriculum runs in six stages, and each stage is the ground of the next.
Aims and Objectives
Three things
- 1To acquaint Muslims with the knowledge of the faith that is indispensable
- 2To establish an atmosphere of teaching and formation inside Muslim homes
- 3To make the mosques centres of public teaching and formation
The Method
Three works
- 1Preparing a curriculum for ordinary people, and convening it
- 2Forming a team drawn from both the scholars and the modern-educated
- 3Arranging courses on subjects that awaken a felt sense of the faith
The Method
Taʿlīm
teaching
Tarbiyat
formation
Daʿwat
invitation
Khidmat
service
Forming Individuals
Those who finish the curriculum become the ones who teach it. Around ten individuals have already been formed from among the students of the madrasa and jāmiʿa, and the same is under way among the students at Masjid Al-Siddique. The purpose is that this call reaches ordinary society, that an atmosphere forms around it, and that learning becomes easy.
May Allah use us all as much as possible for His faith, and may our lives be purposeful and of worth.