Mandatory Quran teaching teaching at schools

[Zarvan]

Mandatory Quran teaching: Resolution unanimously passed in PA

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to make teaching of the Holy Quran with comprehension mandatory at all public and private institutions in the province. According to the Rules of Procedure of PA 1997, Tuesday is private members’ day and MPAs move resolutions about human interest issues.

The session resumed at 11:20am, an hour and 20 minutes late from the scheduled 10am time. On Tuesday, which is private members day, two resolutions were passed unanimously, two were rejected, one disposed of and one was pending. Provincial Minister for Agriculture Ahmad Ali Aolakh answered questions about his department as well.

Dr Asma Mamdoot, a Pakistan Muslim League – Functional (PML-F) MPA on a women’s seat, presented a resolution out of turn which was passed unanimously by the house.

The resolution states

The House has opinion to make it mandatory the teachings of Quran in all educational institutions in order to sensitize the current young generation but rather to make it the part of the syllabus. Punjab government should allocate funds for the promotion of teaching of Quran in educational institutions and to devise comprehensive strategy for the promotion of Quran. The Quran with comprehension shall be made part of syllabus but rather to corporate it in curriculum of the different classes.
Mamdoot, while talking to The Express Tribune, said a bill will later be moved in the house based on this resolution. The MPA said she had observed that the current generation was illiterate about the teachings of the Holy Quran, which provides the perfect code of life.

When Mamdoot was asked what compelled her to bring forward the resolution, given that there were already children receiving Quranic education at seminaries, she said that teaching the Holy Quran with comprehension to the children will help eliminate terrorism from the country. She added that aside from the teaching of the Holy Quran, all other activities at the seminaries forced children to become terrorists. She also added that Urdu-medium and English-medium schools should teach the comprehension in the relevant languages.

Service for Shahbaz Bhatti

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPA Pervaiz Rafique Malik on a point of order said that he had wanted hold a service at the grave of Shahbaz Bhatti, but Punjab Police had besieged his house in Faisalabad and had forbidden him from doing so. The grave is located at Khushpur Chak No 51 GB Tehsil in the Sumandri district of Faisalabad.

Malik alleged that he along with thousands of Bhatti’s followers had planned to visit the grave, but he had been placed under house arrest and around 5,000 followers who had managed to make it were harassed by the police.

He said besides being stopped, his privilege had also been breached and demanded that the Punjab Government should reply to this.

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said that Dr Paul Bhatti, the brother of late Shahbaz Bhatti and an advisor to the prime minister, had asked the police to stop Malik from visiting the grave. He said that this was an internal affair and the provincial government was not a party to it.
Malik, not satisfied with the reply, asked in which capacity the police had barred him, an MPA, on the direction of Dr Paul Bhatti. Sanaullah said that he should move a privilege motion in the house and all matters would be cleared.

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Ziaullah Shah in his resolution urged federal government to manage the substitute for the gas crisis so that factories could continue to run. The resolution was passed by the house.

House resolutions

A simple resolution is a legislative proposal that addresses matters entirely within the prerogative of one house or the other. It requires neither the approval of the other house nor the signature of the President, and it does not have the force of law. Most simple resolutions concern the rules of one house. They are also used to express the sentiments of a single house.

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Will Bhagvad Gita and Bible also will be taught to eliminate terrorism???

This should have been done long time ago syllabus in Pakistan should include that when a student completes Matric or 10th Grade he should have been taught Quran with translation and also life of HAZRAT MUHAMMAD SAW and there should be exams and in FSC he should be taught Tafseer and major two Books of Hadees to

 

[World_Peace]

Are yaar it's their country and they have every right to decide what they should or shouldn't learn.Why interfere in that??If minorities have any problems they should have thought about it a long time ago.

 

[Nishan_101]

I think its Mandatory in all the Schools of Pakistan and it should be as this will bring out much better humans for this world.

 

[Baby Leone]

thts a good move, enlightment is the essence of education ......

 

[saiyan0321]

Are yaar it's their country and they have every right to decide what they should or shouldn't learn.Why interfere in that??If minorities have any problems they should have thought about it a long time ago.

minorities leave the class in our school christian children could leave the class but were only allowed to sit in the library to study something else so we wouldnt have children running around....... if minorities want to read their books they can do it in temples and churches after all there are alot of padres and pandits here no need to get ansyP

 

[Al Bhatti]

It would be great if they teach Arabic instead of Qur'an in the beginning and later on teach tajweed directly as he would be already well versed with reading Quran after learning Arabic.

 

[Kompromat]

Should have been done 60 years ago , it would have saved a lot of trouble coming from a few Madrassas.

 

[Doctor09]

Indeed a good decision . Islamic education along with latest scientific education is a best solution to get rid off Madrassa only education . This is what exactly Islam teach us to learn both type of knowledges (Islamic and scientific)

 

[Awesome]

Student wants to study ''Engineering'' at school level?

The article says all public and private institutions.

Same difference. Why should a Science or a business student study Quran? A Muslim may not want to study the Quran too - hence making the Quran mandatory they have done injustice to Pakistani freedom.

 

[53fd]

I did my early schooling from Pakistan, & I never had any mandatory Quran teaching at my school. Maybe it's changing now, but I doubt this will really be implemented.

 

[Awesome]

Quran optional and government funded is something we can live with. Mandatory would cause a lot of backlash, loss of reputation for the country and of course lose the spirit of learning something spiritual.

 

[haviZsultan]

The article says all public and private institutions.

Same difference. Why should a Science or a business student study Quran? A Muslim may not want to study the Quran too - hence making the Quran mandatory they have done injustice to Pakistani freedom.

I agree with Asim Aquil's ideas. However what we can do is keep it as an option. If the child wants to have Quran classes then okay, if not then leave it. We Pakistanis never understand the ideas of freedom because we simply don't know what it means. We should be able to choose whether we want to learn the Quran in schools or not, otherwise its being forced down our throat. That is wrong. Forcing people to do anything is wrong. Thats my point.

In our college in Canada we used to have the choice of which course to take and which not to take. It gave people a lot of freedom about how they wanted to study. It personalized education and thats what I loved. For religious courses thats what should be done. Give them a choice whether to have Quran studies and Islamic studies as a part of curriculum.

However I do believe most kids in school, or most parents of the kids would choose to have Quranic education for their children. Its a mindset...