ENCOURAGE THEM, HELP THE MADRASAH

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful. All praises are due to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. Blessings and Salutations upon the soul of the belove Prophet, his companions, households and the generality of Muslims following his Sunnah til the day of reconing.

I have chosen to send this message to our parents and parents to be insha Allah.

It is obvious to everyone that Islamic Education is facing challenges. I discovered one of these challenges comes from parents. This is so because most parent prioritize western education over Islamic Education and this has broaden the Love of Western education in children's mind and this really affect the Islamic Education.

Let me go straight to my discovery so far:

Lack of Encouragement is one of the major problems (and the only one am going to discuss insha Allah in this write up).

Every parent wake up early in the morning to prepare their wards for school, bath for them, give them food and all sort of preparations just to make them feel happy and ready for school. But when it comes to the Arabic/Islamic school, most of the parent will not even know if they go or not because they will not be around when their children will be back from school, did they even care to ask if they attend the Arabic school like they do in western schools case?

Another encouragement given to children is that of buying of biscuit, sweet and stuffs that small children do love for them while going to school, even if they don't want to go to school, those stuff will entice them but for Islamic class, nothing like that and often they will be beaten to madrasah and that will make them have less love for Islamic Education.

Lastly, the issue of checking the performance of  children on western classes from teacher and colleagues which they have neglected in case of Islamic class shows how levity they have taken the Islamic and Arabic studies for.

There are lot more which is obvious to us all but this very one i have explained is wider than any other.

Parents should please help the Islamic Education by encouraging their student.

Madrasah needs Brilliant students,

Muslims are Brilliant,

Promote our Madrasah

May Allah help us all.

And Allah knows best.

Written by: Adebayo Mubarak (D-Blessed Pen)