4. 1. Recognize Allahﷻ and see His signs in His Creation
2. It means to be thankful to Him for His blessings
3. Recognizing Allahﷻ means to obey Him
4. Seeing His signs reinforces the recognition
Critical dynamic relationship
Automatically draws attention to our meeting with Himﷻ
5. 1. To separate the Word of Allahﷻ from His Creation
2. To separate His Ayaat from their effect
3. To separate His Orders from their practice
4. To separate His Messengerﷺ from his followers
The biggest injustice was…
Ta’aleem without Tarbiyya is useless and harmful
6. 1. We repeated instructions instead of applying them
2. We memorized without practicing
3. We mistook ‘translation’ for ‘meaning’
4. We forgot that understanding produces effect
Our fatal mistakes
Differentiate between information and knowledge
10. َح َنوُنِمْؤُمْلا ُمُه َكِئَلْوُأاتَجَرَد ْمََُّّل اًّق
َو ةَرِفْغَمَو ْمِِهبَر َندِعيِرَكقْزِر
The reward of this is…
Qur’an: Anfaal 8:4
11. 1. For how many of you is it a teacher?
2. What do you think your students would say if they
were here and I asked them the same question?
Think of your Role Model
Does this matter at all?
12. Today I will teach like I’ve never taught before.
15. 1. What are your children seeing every day when they are
with you?
2. Would you be happy with a teacher like yourself for your
own child?
3. Are you an aspirational teacher the child will remember
and mention with honor when he is 60 years old?
Seeing
What is the data to support your answer?
16. You can only give what you
have. So, what do you have?
17. 1. What did you do in the last 6 months to develop
yourself?
2. What is the measurement of that?
3. What did you invest?
4. What is your investment plan in self-development for the
next 6 months?
What do you have?
If it is not written down, it doesn’t exist
18. Why do we need teachers?
Not for
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. All fact disciplines
We need them for
1. Show manners, kindness
2. Ethics, morals, values
3. Life skills
See Sugata Mitra: Hole in the wall
https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves?language=en
19. In the context of Islam
Not for
1. Reading Qur’an
2. Reading Hadith
3. Reading Seerah
We need them for
1. Connecting with Allahﷻ
2. Practicing the Qur’an
3. Connecting with
Rasoolullahﷺ
We need teachers to demonstrate
Not to tell us what we can read for ourselves
20. I was Director from 1990-1993. 1200 children, 75 teachers
21. 1. Experience is the best teacher, so teach by
providing experience
2. Inculcate discipline through respect not fear
3. Show them WiiFM
4. Catch them ‘Doing right’.
Learnings
We must transform both what and how
22. 1. In the light of all that you have heard:
1. What do you think you need to change in what
and how you are teaching today?
2. What will be the benefits of changing?
3. What will help you and might hinder you?
Reflection
Because only action counts
Life skills: Apart from physical skills, how to handle relationships, conflict, communicate, love, cultural values, money, charity, social responsibility, citizenship
