We should modify Arabic and Islamic instructive educational programs to suit latest things - Mustapha Hamid
Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, CEO of the Public Petrol Authority has expressed that changing the Arabic and Islamic instructive educational programs to suit present day patterns is the best method for putting Muslim understudies at standard with others in the mainstream training.
That, he said should accompany difficult work, powerful joint efforts and solidarity of direction to move Muslim youngsters from the "moderate prospectuses" to current patterns that would expand the skyline of the understudies.
He said Muslims could never again keep on harping on Prospectuses that were generally hypothesis in nature and all the way out of reasonableness, a circumstance he depicted as "dry philosophy."
"If our syllabus is still based on religious tenets instead of the Broadway educational system that non-Muslim students enjoy," "Muslim children cannot be knowledgeable in ICT, Environment, Technology, Science, and Creative Arts."
Dr Abdul-Hamid expressed this during a three-day workshop with the Public Chamber for Educational plan and Evaluation on creating Islamic examinations educational programs for the Muslim people group in Ghana.
30 people attended the seminar, which was put on by T'alim Ghana, an Islamic non-governmental organization in Ghana, in conjunction with Education Without Borders and The World Muslim Community Council of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Themed: " Islamic Education and Instruction; Preparing for Subject matter experts and creating Islamic Educational programs", the Course would among different issues emerge with difficulties of Islamic training, how they might rise to different understudies in the mainstream domains and way forward to quick track instructive advancement among Muslim understudies.
According to Dr. Abdul-Hamid, as the former Minister of Inner-Cities and the Zongo Development, he realized that Muslim students lacked progress in the secular education sector, primarily due to the religious nature of Arabic and Islamic studies.
He urged Muslim scholars to be assertive in their interactions with the government in order to develop effective courses and syllabuses that would inspire Muslim students and avoid individual ideological beliefs that could cause sectarian division.
Dr. Abdul-Hamid compared the hijab worn by Muslim women to the uniform worn by students to identify them and their schools. He said that the hijab was a sign of their faith.
As Muslims, he urged them to be assertive in their responsibilities by setting standards they would not fall short of. He also encouraged them to develop their skills in curriculum development that would benefit Muslims in Ghana and beyond.
He said the state had throughout the long term perceived that religion was essential for Ghanaians, subsequently the foundation of Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, Islamic and Ahmaddiyya Instructive Units across country.
"To have a lot of familiarity with Catholicism, ask a Catholic and if you need to have a ton of experience with Islam, ask a Muslim."
He stated that the Islamic holy book is timeless and applies to all generations; therefore, it should not be altered; however, in order for the experts to be on par with other generations, they must redesign and devise new methods for meeting the requirements of the current Muslim generation.
He said that the times were changing, that Dubai—a typical Islamic state—would soon host COP 28, which would discuss climate change, the environment, science, and other development issues, and that Muslims needed to rethink how they understood development in light of these current issues.
"That will show the world that our religion has the standards for improvement and not simply harping on just Hadiths."
Mr Hasan Al Marzouqi, Appointee Secretary General of the World Muslim People group Chamber said they want to help Muslim associations and Relationship to create and plan academic materials to advance Islamic schooling on the planet.
He urged Ghana's Muslim community to take advantage of research opportunities in fields that would benefit both the religion and society as a whole.
He praised Dr. Abdul-Hamid for his heroic work in Islamic education and urged him to keep leading the way for others to follow.
Dr Abdullah Musah Abdullah, Head of Interpreters at UNIMAC said it was miserable that around 60% of understudies who learnt Arabic in schools were non-Muslims and educated Muslim understudies to take advantage concerning the changing patterns to concentrate on it.
He referenced absence of reading material, preparing focuses, Educators and foundation as significant difficulties militating against the learning of Arabic and Islamic examinations in schools.
Additionally, he advocated for altering cognitive learning, which did not aid in comprehension but rather served to prepare students for examinations.
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