Islamic Education: A New Approach The Early Years One of the biggest challenges we face today as Muslims in general, and Muslims living in the West in specific, is the challenge of providing Islamic education to the younger generation. Education we receive through the early stages of our lives shapes our way of thinking and is therefore of primary importance. Most education that young Muslims receive today is secular. This is perhaps the main reason for the lack of scholarship in the Ummah in the recent decades. The minds of our youth today are shaped by the secular education system where religion either plays no part, or plays a very marginal role. Even the so called Islamic schools of today have been unable to provide a proper alternative to the secular education system. When the Muslims coming out of colonial influence or the Muslims living in the West realized the need for Islamic education for their young, their solution was to add on Islamic studies subjects ...
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