Speech "The Importance of education in Islam

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

إن الحمد لله، نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونستهديه، ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا وسيئات أعمالنا من يهده الله فلا مضل له، ومن يضلل فلا هادي له.

وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، وأشهد أن محمداً عبده ورسوله. اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. أما بعد:

Good morning to the excellences, my respected teachers and my dear friends who came here for having my speech about THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION IN ISLAM. Can you imagine life without education? Life without religion? mmmm…I can easily say that there will be chaos everywhere….Someone said that “Without theology, life will be blind and without science life will be lame” the proverb points the importance of education and science. Without those two things someone won’t know the development of times. On the other hand without religion (theology) someone will be chaos and do mistake in his life. One can easily say that a human being is not in the proper sense till he/she is educated. Without education, man is as though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards the outside world. Of course that should be followed with his faith to Allah SWT, the One who is the Knowing.  

When Adam A.S. was created, Allah S.W.T. said to the angels to bow down. Everybody bowed down except iblees. The reason iblees refused to bow down was because he said that prophet Adam A.S. was made of clay and he was made from fire. How can fire bow down to clay? The angels looked at it in a different way. They looked at the inside of prophet Adam A.S. because Allah S.W.T. gave knowledge to prophet Adam A.S.

In the Holy Qur’an, Allah S.W.T. says in Sura  Al Baqarah, verses 31-34:

And He taught Adam the names - all of them. Then He showed them to the angels and said, "Inform Me of the names of these, if you are truthful."

They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise.

He said, "O Adam, inform them of their names." And when he had informed them of their names, He said, "Did I not tell you that I know the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth? And I know what you reveal and what you have concealed."

And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.

"So dear guest who blessed by Allah, from the Sura, we all know that Allah SWT gives the special place for the one who have knowledge and always try to seek it. Knowledge is the most important thing in one’s life. It’s obligatory on muslim, male and female. The first word revealed of the Qur’an was "Iqra"

Recite in the name of your Lord who created

The Holy Prophet of Allah (S.A.W.) has said:

طَلَبُ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ

This Hadith means: “Seeking the [obligatory] religious knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.” (Related by al-Bayhaqiyy.)

Education is the starting point of every human activity. Allah created man and provided him with the tools for acquiring knowledge, namely hearing, sight and wisdom. He said in Al Qur’an sura An Nahl verse 78

And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing, and He made for you hearing and vision and intellect that perhaps you would be grateful.

The Prophet  explained that the superiority of the one who has knowledge over the one who merely worships is like the superiority of the moon over every other heavenly body. He also said that the scholars are the heirs of the Prophets. Furthermore, the Prophet said that seeking knowledge is a way leading to Paradise. He said: "Whoever follows a path in the pursuit of knowledge, Allah will make a path to Paradise easy for him." (Al-Bukhaari)

The first and most crucial obligation on us is to acquire knowledge and secondly to practice and preach this knowledge. No man becomes truly a Muslim without knowing the meaning of Islam, because he becomes a Muslim not through birth but through knowledge.

Knowledge brings a great reward. When the knowledgeable person dies, his reward with Allah does not cease when he dies, rather it continues to increase so long as people benefit from his knowledge. The Prophet said: "When a man dies, all his deeds come to an end except for three — an ongoing charity, beneficial knowledge or a righteous child who will pray for him." (Muslim)

Dear all of the honor guests, so education should be our main priority and placed it as the number one in every aspect of our life, because we will not a 100 percent human being without having education….. and how happy people who have education, they share it without making their knowledge decrease, instead  it will increase and become great reward for them. From above all that I’ve delivered before, education has role in change every aspect in our life to a good way.

Thanks for having me here, may Allah SWT always shower you all His bless and give us time so we can seek knowledge and be successful human being in the world and hereafter, Amin…amin ya Rab…

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