Islamic Taleem

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Sourn Rose

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:18:40 PM8/3/24

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Taleem and tarbiyath are two words encountered quite often in the discussions, but they remain elusive in comprehending their complete meaning in their true sense in prevalent times. Taleem can be referred to as education and tarbiyath as training and development. Taleem is the means and process of acquiring knowledge (Ilm); the process involves sharing of the information from the giver to the receiver. The objective of knowledge sharing is to make the receiver understands the information as understood by the giver. Tarbiyath, on the other hand, requires that the recipient of the knowledge and training demonstrate the learning through action.

The erstwhile upbringing of the young ones by their parents had a combination of both. Taleem and tarbiyath were required to make an individual a better person, and demand for taleem for making a living was minimal. The child was groomed in the skill or profession of the parent or family to make both ends meet and the gap on the taleem front was filled by the scholar available. Taleem here was restricted to some spiritual books and thought by the teacher.

However, with the advancement of time and progress of the world, the scope and context of both taleem and tarbiyath widened. Today the demand for a complete hold on taleem and tarbiyath requires a totally new look to cover the vast grounds. Among Muslims, taleem has been bifurcated into asri (worldy) and oqravi (religious) and tarbiyath followed on the same classification leads to asri tarbiyath (skills to earn a living) and oqravi tarbiyath (behavior based on the spiritual and moral values).

The skewed approach to focusing on learning to earn has made machines out of the human. Individuals are measured as successful based on the return that one can generate on the investment into taleem and tarbiyath (asari). The necessity of moral obligations towards fellow beings and others is never learned and never displayed as tarbiyath.

These hollow groomed individuals collectively form a self-centered and self-interested society. This society on higher plains created a world where me-I-myself is the ultimate purpose of living. The world has witnessed cultures in the past that lacked taleem and tarbiyath, thereby limiting the capacity to earn survived. On the contrary, societies without moral and spiritual values cannot promote coherence and just societies, which is evident today.

It is time for the parents to upgrade to better parenting by putting effort in taleem and tarbiyath of self to counter the distractive environment that lures the young minds to digressing paths. The focus should be on societal centric upbringing rather than self-centric.