Lets work for Hope

In Islam education is very important for both males and females, particularly young children. Contrary to common perception the seeking of all types of knowledge - be it academic, vocational, religious or secular - is encouraged at all ages. However, learning at an early age is thought to allow the mind to concentrate without the stresses and responsibilities of later adult life.

If you go back to history of world, we can clearly distinguish that the harmony and peace for the nations was brought by the education. Plato about 400-350 B.C talked about education and attainment of knowledge in “Republic”. Greece and Macedonian state were one of the main centres of learning and later on Egypt took over this position. Romans established centre of learning but the rate of education advancement was low. Then in later half of Islamic Banu Umayyad Caliphat in 8th century, modern education started taking its present shape. Modern subjects like chemistry, Biology, physics, astronomy were introduced in centre of learning like Baghdad and Alexandria. Banu Abbasid took care of scholars and educators as religious offering for them and gave facilities. It was this period of history when mankind without any discrimination was transmitted the blessings of science all over. Whether it was Spain where Muslims developed the water and sanitation system or Astronomy Centre of Central Asia Russian Turkistan. Europe till the end of 15th Century was totally lost in ignorance exception of few contributions by Galileo and Leonardo De Vinci. The education cycle started converting to Europe when Muslims started falling into Religious misguidance.

From last 300 years Muslim world is not able to do a single invention. Most poor nations are Muslims. Economically 52 countries of Muslims don’t even contribute to the 10% of world’s economy and by numbers they are 30% of the total countries in world. If we narrow down the scope to Pakistan, we see the lowest literacy rate in the region, where we are almost on same economical position as compared to others. Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world and according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it is 55 per cent and Pakistan stands at 160th in total countries of the world. 50 million illiterate citizens. Primary school enrolment was less than 70percent and even in this, as many as 30 percent get dropped out before acquiring basic literacy skills.
This indeed is a very alarming situation and a challenge which must be met with resolve, determination, and action. Illiteracy is a matter too serious to be left to the government alone, and each and every citizen must rise to the occasion to contribute his or her part to bring right of literacy to about 50million Pakistanis. Every Citizen of Pakistan at least should try to analyze the situation and look around them that where they can help out to bring education to young ones and builders of nation. When we look at the aspects that what education can do that every country’s progress is determined on the amount of research papers they are producing annually. A literate person can become a skilled labor easily with the help of technical education institutes; a literate person can easily judge what is right and wrong happening in the society and can lead the country towards the right direction. Nations are building on the basis of awareness of right and wrong. Education basically brings the sense of knowing and identifying the rights and wrongs and hence leading themselves towards right direction. This ultimately refers to the terminology commonly been discussed all over the world as INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP. So if we focus on giving education to every man, woman, child off course then ultimately this will lead to a whole a nation of leaders who can lead the world in every field they get in.Now, I f we look at the statistics of women education in Pakistan, they are very depressing

Pakistan consists of 52% of women population and adversely women don’t have high literacy rate. Adult literacy rates are 54.8% for men and 25% for women (Labor Force Survey 1996-97) and, especially, the literacy rate of women in rural areas (15%) is less than a third of that of women in urban areas (50%). Iran has 50% of its work force as women and they have been inducted in every field of life.
This is the dire need of time that everyone in the society upholds the national task of education for everyone. A common example can be, if a girl is doing a domestic work for someone, the people who have hired should arrange proper education for her also. Same goes for child labor all over the country. I f a single person gets to reach out for one person, then there is no doubt that we can convert 50 million illiterate population into productive and better human beings of the society and the citizen of the world.