Role of Modern Education

ROLE OF MODERN EDUCATION Modern academic institutions have deconditioned the mindset of students, enabling them to think with open minds by discarding their prejudices, and seeing things as they are. T he coming into existence of a group of Companions of the Prophet in the seventh century was no simple event. Only after a long historical process, with divine support, were the Ishmaelites produced by the rough training peculiar to desert conditions. What set this race apart was that it was free from the conditioning of any unnatural environment. As such, they possessed the unique capacity to accept the truth. This ability has been described in the Quran in symbolic language: “The (luminous) oil is as if ready to burn without even the fire touching it.” (24:35) In the twentieth century, this de-conditioning process occurred for another reason. It stemmed from a secular civilization that promoted secular education and secular thought. But unfortunately, certain leaders have a very negative perception of secular educational institutions, calling them slaughterhouses.