Why Present Muslims Are Lagging Behind in Education

WHY PRESENT MUSLIMS ARE LAGGING BEHIND IN EDUCATION They were good speakers, and good speakers are those who possess deep insight and understanding, which is why they don’t speak unnecessarily. A nother important observation in this connection is that a reading of Muslim literature of the last two centuries describes the mindset that Muslims have developed over past several decades. The debates and arguments in this literature are predominantly concerned with the issue of permissibility of nonMuslim teachers for Muslim children. Muslims were extremely wary of sending their children to schools because they would appoint Hindu, Christian or British teachers for instruction. Muslim parents preferred to deprive their children of modern education over allowing them to be schooled by nonMuslim teachers. It is important to bear in mind that the greatest school of Madinah, instituted by the Prophet himself, had