Effective Teaching in Islam, an Analytic Study

Abstract

The Islamic concept of teaching and learning is not limited to the memorization of Al-Qur’ān and religious studies by Muslim scholars. Islamic education is often erroneously perceived as education on religious matters, whereas in fact, Islamic education (based on the Qur’ān and Sunnah) provides a rich reservoir of knowledge in the modern society. Islam is the only religion that provides the guidelines in all areas of life. This is the time that Muslim Ummah has gone away from the right path and is in miserable condition, facing gigantic issues. We learn that Islam obtains these objectives through effective teaching methodology. It is the need of the day that guidelines must be extracted from Islamic system of education so that through education, reforms be brought in the society. Actual purpose of acquiring knowledge, in Islam is to propagate the real knowledge so that more and more people would earn benefit from the teachings of the Messenger of Allāh, would act upon them and an Islamic welfare society would be formed. So, Prophet Muhammad SAW repeatedly directed to propagate knowledge and convey it to the others. For this purpose, at the time of Muhammad, not only educating the people was managed, but delegations were sent to the far of places.