The Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Coordination with Muslimah Hizb ut Tahrir Indonesia Successfully Held a Momentous International Women’s Conference in Indonesia: “Al-Khilafah & Education: Reviving the Golden Age”
On Saturday
11th of March, the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of
Hizb ut Tahrir in coordination with Muslimah Hizb ut Tahrir Indonesia
successfully hosted a momentous and remarkable International Women’s Conference
in Jakarta, Indonesia entitled, “Al-Khilafah
& Education: Reviving the Golden Age”. This important event, which was
organized to address the causes and solution to the severe ‘Educational Crisis’
affecting the Muslim lands, was attended by around 1700 influential women from
various countries as well as from across Indonesia. Delegates included
teachers, lecturers, education practitioners responsible for the management of
schools, journalists, academics, scholars, university students, youth activists
and representatives of organisations. The speeches were delivered by female
members of Hizb ut Tahrir from Indonesia, Palestine, Tunisia, the Arab Gulf,
Malaysia, Turkey, Holland, and Britain. The atmosphere was electric and there
was a resounding and passionate expression of support from attendees for the
urgent re-establishment of the Khilafah (Caliphate) based on the method of the
Prophethood as the means to end the mountain of problems afflicting education
in the Muslim world today under secular regimes and systems and the path to
establish a first-class education system in the region. Delegates also
expressed their determination to protect Muslim children from the intensified
efforts of non-Islamic governments across the world to secularise Muslim
children through education and destroy their Islamic identity. The event, which
was broadcast online to viewers internationally, also included a parade of
influential women involved in education who voiced their support for the ideas
of the conference. The day also included a press conference, attended by
various media.
Conference
speeches detailed how the secular and capitalist view towards education in the
Muslim lands had shaped education towards simply preparing students for
employment and measuring their success on their value to the labour market
rather than building their Islamic personality, life-skills, and directing
their acquiring of knowledge to serve the needs and improve the lives of their
societies. This alongside the poor organization and miserly funding of
education under capitalist systems in the region, as well as the continued
imposition of regressive colonial based education models whose aim was simply
to enslave the minds of future Muslim generations to the western secular
liberal culture, are the root of the education crisis. Speakers discussed that
to build a first-class education system required the establishment of a
first-class political system: the Khilafah, founded purely upon Islam. The
conference therefore presented the education policy of the Khilafah as detailed
comprehensively by Hizb ut Tahrir in its various publications, such as “The Foundations of the Education
Curriculum in the Khilafah State”. The event discussed how this state would
embrace an independent vision for education aimed at building distinguished
Islamic personalities and excellence in the understanding of the Deen and of
the empirical sciences, resulting in the generation of an abundance of Islamic
scholars, and experts in every field of science and academia. It would also
establish a strong connection between the education system and the vital needs
and interests of the society in industry, agriculture, the economy, the
military, science and technology and all other sectors, harnessing the best
minds and skills of this Ummah to do so. This would ensure self-sufficiency of
the state, break the dependence on other nations for development and progress,
and end the brain drain from the Muslim lands. Furthermore, as a state that
views securing quality education for all its citizens as an Islamic obligation,
and that seeks to lead the world with the ideology of Islam, it would also
prioritise investment in the education sector, including to build a world class
higher-education system, and research, and specialization facilities – all
funded by its sound Islamic economic system.
Speeches also
highlighted how the Khilafah would lead the world in the excellence of women’s
education as well as embrace teaching methods that would inspire, build
creative analytical minds, and a thirst for knowledge. The conference
highlighted that through this unrivalled Islamic education system, the Khilafah
would therefore once again take its rightful position as the centre of learning
of the world as well as generate a golden civilization of scholarship,
innovation, and scientific advancement. The conference also discussed the
importance of pre-school education as the first pillar in building the Islamic
personality and enabling the child to deal with their surrounding environment.
It also addressed the vital link between the Arabic language and education,
ijtihad, understanding the Deen and returning the glory of Islam. And the final
talk provided guidance on how to shape Islamic education today in the absence
of the Khilafah to build Muslim youth with strong Islamic identities who are
equipped to deal with the challenges against their Deen.
The
conference was preceded on Friday 10th of March by a marvelous
exhibition, attended by around 2500 girls and women from across Indonesia,
including students from schools in 5 cities in and around Jakarta. It presented
a host of exhibits and videos showcasing the subject matters of the conference
and included talk shows on the provision of Islamic education today, and the
failures of western educational models.
The
conference and exhibition alongside the three-week global campaign on the
subject of education, Islam and the Khilafah which preceded them, made a
significant contribution Alhamdulillah to the current debates on how to
formulate a successful educational model for the Muslim lands and indeed the
world.
Conference
and exhibition speeches, discussions, videos, and pictures can be accessed
at: https://goo.gl/g9Wt2B & www.facebook.com/WomenandShariah.
﴿الَر كِتَابٌ
أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ لِتُخْرِجَ النَّاسَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ
بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَى صِرَاطِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ﴾
“Alif Lam Ra. (This is) a
Book which We have sent down to you so that, by their Lord’s permission, you
lead out the people from the darkness (of ignorance) into the light (of faith),
to the way of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.” [Ibrahim: 1]
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Director of the Women’s Section in the
Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
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