#LiberationThroughIslam #WhatDidMuhammedSAWSayAbout Female Education Islam views education as an obligation upon men and women alike, as the Prophet (saw) said, Seeking Knowledge is obligatory upon ALL Muslims Islam obliges the Muslim Ummah to be a leading nation in the world, encouraging men and women to contribute to the betterment of society and to excel in all areas, including academia, science and technology. However, all these educational rights of women can only be secured by a system that truly values the importance of female learning. That system is the Khilafah whose constitution is based purely upon the Quran and Sunnah. And so in accordance with Islam the Islamic state is obliged to invest heavily in education and provide free primary and secondary education to boys and girls and as far as possible to fund higher education, because education is viewed as a basic right of all citizens. It was under the Islamic system that womens education flourished historically creating brilliant female inventors such as Marium al-Istirlabi who pioneered the development of the astrolabe in the 10th century; excellent female engineers such as Fatima Al-Fihri who constructed the first university in the world al-Qarawayyin in Morrocco; and thousands upon thousands of female scholars as detailed in the 40 volume book by the scholar Mohamed Akram an-Nadwi which provided biographies of 8000 female scholars who existed during the time of the Islamic civilization. It was under this true Islamic system, the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo gave access to women as students and as lecturers – a right that women in the West only acquired within their universities centuries after. The Khilafah was therefore a state which truly pioneered the world in female education and In sha Allah will again produce a first-class education system for women and girls upon its establishment!
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:35:40 +0000
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