Abstract
ALL HEAVENLY MESSAGES have placed a special emphasis on people’s education in order to properly develop their natural potentials and bestow on them happiness both here and in the Hereafter. Islam is the final and greatest of all divine messages. Hence, its profound interest in the upbringing of mankind: “0’ You who believe guard yourselves and your families against afire whose fuel is men and stones, and over which are angels stern and strong who disobey not Allah in what He commands them and do what they are commanded.” (Quran, 66:6) In the aforementioned verse, Allah the Glorious commands believers to properly educate themselves and their families, so that they could constitute the best possible human society. The Islamic teaching has neither been exclusively religious nor material. It has accommodated both the religious and the worldly affairs, since it has to prepare people for success in this world and in the hereafter. The holy Quran refers to this point, as: “And seek by means of what Allah has given you the future abode and do not neglect your portion of this world.” The Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H.) stated: “The best of you are not those who neglected the worldly affairs for the Hereafter or the affairs of the Hereafter for the worldly. It is surely they who take from both.” So the ultimate end of the philosophy of Islamic education is twofold. One is the achievement in this world and the other is for the hereafter by purifying one’s self. End of philosophy of education in this world is the command over science and technology, while hereafter is through purifying oneself to open a passage towards heaven. Each of the factors involved is discussed here in detail.
Muhammad Majid Sabir . (2006) THE ULTIMATE END OF THE ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, The Dialogue, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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