Making Islamic Education Relevant For Today by Abdullah Hakim Quick

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One of the problems faced by many Muslim communities in the area of education are the students and their lack of interest in the material or curriculum. The fact of the matter is that many of our children are bored at weekend Islamic schools and this prevents them from properly absorbing and understanding the information being conveyed to them. This is a reality and a major problem that must be dealt with in the most sensitive way. Abdullah Hakim Quick, having vast amounts of experiences in the area of Islamic education and social services, provides possible ways to make the school curriculums practical, relevant, and interesting to our youth today. This lecture is absolutely essential for all school principals, teachers, imams, youth group leaders, and parents.

Other topics discussed: divorce and dowry.

Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick Ph.D. has travelled to more than 34 countries on lecture and educational tours. He embraced Islam in 1970 and thereafter pursued his studies at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed a BA from the College of Da'wah and Usul al-Din. He later read for his Masters degree and completed his PhD on the History of Islam in Africa at the University of Toronto, Canada. The focus of his thesis was the life of the great mujaddid of the 18th century, Shaykh Uthman Ibn Fudi (Usman dan Fodio), the Amir of the Sokoto Caliphate. Shaykh Ibn Fudi succeeded in combining the best of fiqh, theology and spirituality, and successfully developed an Islamic State.

Shaykh Abdullah Hakim has served as Imam, teacher and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years he contributed to the religious page of Canada's leading newspaper. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at the Dar-ul-Arqam Islamic Institute and Director of the Da'wah Department of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa.

As the new millennium dawns, Islam is in need of innovative rethinking based on original, authentic Islamic sources. Shaykh Abdullah Hakim provides an example of this new, progressive Islamic thinking.