It was a regular routine of the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him, that whenever he delegated or appointed some one to a place to promote Islam he taught them some precious advices in teaching: ” Give glad tidings to people, facilitate things for them and do not be harsh but be gentle do not make people run away”.
The great teacher of humanity knew that harshness, and boredom can make your students flee and tolerance as well as pardoning is the best way to show gentleness.
He(peace be upon him), repeated a phrase often, before one of his best students, his beloved wife, who later became one of the finest teacher of Islam :
“Aisha! If kindness is added to anything it beautifies it and if kindness it removed from something it uglifies it…”
Most of us remember our school teachers who were kind and gentle, but rash and harsh teachers pass away from our memories swiftly with time, even if they taught their academic subjects properly.
How important and neccesary is kindess and gentleness?
Study this Hadith :
“Allah gives for kindness what he does not give for harshness.” (Tirmidhi sahih)
Note this hadith too :
“If Allah wants to do good to some one he bestows
upon him kindness”
(Sahih Tirmidhi)
Once he(saw) supplicated:
“O Allah ! Make easy for the person who facilitates for my Ummah and make things hard for the one who makes things hard upon my ummah !!”
Every Prophet was moulded with kindness and that made them the best teachers of their time.
Kindness is seen and felt in eveyr action.
One of the noble habits of the Prophet peace be upon him, when ever he spoke, at times he repeated it three times for the people to understand.
Whenever people commited errors he explained to them kindly and tolerated them. Tolerance and pardoning are the pillars of kindness.
This note is important for all the readers lest some one think that he is not not teaching. Every one of us is a teacher. We teach our children, our juniors, our servants, our audience our readers….How we teach reflects our personalities and it also results in the response.
Author: Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on Islam and Muslims. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
every one of us have Father and mother but there is a personality which comes in the place of Father and that personality is non other but a Teacher.
If a person reaches at top in every aspect of life , I think this would be because of teacher.
and there are some Quality which a teacher must posses in himself. Like
well known about his subject and students
Awareness about every thing concerning the study
kind
Loving
and much more.
@Learn Quran
My father always replied to his friends and relations that “All my assets are my children” not the property.
True. But parents [Family] is very 1st school and loving teachers.
child learns from them right when he/ she is in the womb of mother.
The early 5/6 years are in which it learns most and develope its behavior and attitude.
The problem is that now the cash is the demand of the day; A prince is born and ” no matter it is very young and will be OK when grown-up”
Of cource I remember a good teacher who was a real teacher in my class 1; [A long true story] who was not beautifull but A Wonderfull man and Teacher who taght us in very young age how to learn! He imparted only ABJD [ ابجد ] and 1, 2, 3 … but gave a base of knowledge.
Only Primary pass [1920].
And there were who couldn’t impart me (A+B)^ being Graduate in 1940s.-
Basics of Islam was taught us by an Illiterate Mullah whithout any ambiguity; a BookBinder.
I always pray for all teachers along with my parents. May Allah SWT Bless them all! A’meen !