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Islam is the religion of peace, and it is one of the most sacred and trustable religions, which has given us guidance in each aspect of life. Islam has given us education with cognition which has no limits. The Holy Quran is the most sacred book of Allah revealed on Prophet Muhammad (SAW), for the upliftment guidance and enriched messages to the humanity.
Education is the noesis of putting one’s potentials to greatest or most complete or best possible use. Without education, no one may find the proper right path in this world.
This importance of education is fundamentally for two reasons. Education makes man a right thinker. Without education, no one may think decently in an suitable context you. It tells man how to think and how to make decision. The second reason for the importance of education is that only through the attainment of education, man is enabled to receive data from the external world. It is well said that
“Without education, man is as even though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all it is windows open towards outside world.”
This is why Islam attaches such great importance to cognition and education. When the Quran started out to be revealed, the initial word of it is original verse was ‘Iqra’ that is, read..
The reflective book of Holy Quran is so rich in content and meaning that if the history of humane thought proceeds forever, this book is not likely to be read to it is end. Every day it conveys a new message to the humanity. Every morning, it gives us new thoughtful ideas and bound us in the boundaries of ethics.
Islamic Education is one of the best systems of education, which makes an ethical groomed person with all the qualities, which he/she must have as a humane being. The Western world has devised the defective effigy of Islam in the world. They don’t know that our teachings are directly given to us from Allah, who is the creator of this world, through our Prophets.
The Muslims all over the world are thirsty of acquiring quality education. They know their boundaries and never undertake to cross it. It is the West, which has invented a hype that the Muslim are not in a path of getting proper education. They think that our education teaches us fighting, in regards to weapons, etc., which is so false. This is unfeigned that there are sure elements, which strength an person to be on the wrong path, because as we will mould a child, they will be like that, but it doesn’t mean that our religion teaches improperly to us.
Our Holy Prophet (SAW), said,
Seek psychological result of perception learning and reasoning from the cradle to the grave.
And:
Seek psychological result of perception learning and reasoning even [if it is to be found in a place as distant as China. At the battle of Badr, in which our beloved Holy Prophet (SAW) gained victory over his foes, seventy humans of the enemy rank were taken to prison. These prisoners were literate people. In order to gain from their education the Prophet declared that if one prisoner teaches ten Muslim children how to read and write, this will serve as his ransom and he will be set free. This was the initial school in the history of Islam conventional by the Prophet himself with all it is teachers being non-Muslims. The Sunnah of the Prophet shows that education is to be received whatsoever the danger involved.
Today, the Muslims are acquiring good ideas, thoughts, knowledge, and skills, from all corners of the world. The world is moving very fast, and in this industrialize world, It is the responsibility of the teachers to give quality ethical integrated education to the Muslim students worldwide, because children are priceless pluses of future generations.
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) encouraged all Muslims to acquire noesis and share it. He said:
“Acquire knowledge, for he who acquires it in the way of Allah performs an act of piety; he who speaks of it, praises the Lord; he who seeks it, adores Allah; he who dispenses instruction in it, bestows alms; and he who imparts it to others, performs an act of devotion to Allah.” (Bukhari, Muslim)
All the teachers of either secular or religious education ought to give more attention to the pupils inside the classroom. It is necessary that in the Islamic scheme that we ought to consider these dear children as our own children, and put apart all other considerations, and rise above all such things and realize our responsibility and our mission. We will have to raise the standards of education and attend to the needs of these children. We will have to realize our duties with earnestness and arouse to the sense of responsibility. It has been seen that there are sure teacher who are not fulfilling their duties with keen interest. I would like to request all the teachers that for the sake of God, for the sake of your revolutionary duty, instruct the children with devotion and dedication.
It is important that we advance our work through discussions, debates, studies, and through proper distribution of work amid ourselves.
We must never forget that we are living in an Islamic State, and our aim will have to be simultaneously to give rise to both an independent as well as an Islamic culture in character. Independence and richness of content are in truth amongst the characteristics of the Islamic culture. Our scheme is an ideological system.
We ought to make our child enthusiastic, dynamic, and this search will have to pervade each corner of our society. We ought to aspire them to be truthful and sincere.
Self-sacrifice and generosity, love of freedom, the resolve for resistance and headstrong perseverance, the courage to welcome martyrdom-all these are the new values of the new generation, which must be taught according to the instructing of Islam.
The doors of the school will have to always be held open for the sake of Islam, for the sake of the Muslim Ummah.
Cradle To Cradle Remaking The Way We Make
A manifesto for a radically dissimilar system of belief and exercise of develop and environmentalism
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to denigrate damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, “cradle to grave” manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that humane industry will have to inevitably harm the natural world, they ask.
In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree gives rise to thousands of blossoms in order to give rise to another tree, yet we do not consider it is abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, “waste equals food” is the introductory principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their utile life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as “biological nutrients” that safely re-enter the environs or as “technical nutrients” that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being “downcycled” into low-grade uses (as most “recyclables” now are).
Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the writers make an stimulating and viable case for change.
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| ReviewPaper or plastic? Neither, say William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Why settle for the least destructive substitute when we could have something that is better–say, edible grocery bags! In Cradle to Cradle, the writers present a manifesto calling for a new industrial revolution, one that would render both conventional formulating and traditionalisti environmentalism obsolete. Recycling, for instance, is in truth “downcycling,” creating hybrids of biological and technical “nutrients” which are then unrecoverable and unusable. The authors, an architect and a chemist, want to eliminate the conception of waste altogether, while preserving commerce and permitting for humane nature. They offer assorted compelling examples of corporations that are not just doing less harm–they’re genuinely doing galore good for the surroundings and their neighborhoods, and making more cash in the process. Cradle to Cradle is a freshening alter from the intractable environmental conflicts that dominate headlines. It’s a handbook for 21st-century innovation and will have to be required reading for business hotshots and environmental activists. –Therese Littleton
From Publishers WeeklyEnvironmentalists are commonly the last people to be called shortsighted, yet that’s fundamentally what architect McDonough and chemist Braungart contend in this clarion call for a new kind of ecological consciousness. The writers are collaborators in an industrial design firm that devises environmentally sound buildings, instrumentation and products. They argue that conventional, costly eco-efficiency measures things like recycling or emissions reduction are highly inadequate for protecting the long-term health of the planet. Our industrial merchandise are merely not designed with environmental safety in mind; there’s no way to reclaim the natural resources they use or totally prevent ecosystem damage, and mitigating the harm is at best a stop-gap measure. What the writers propose in this clear, accessible manifesto is a new approach they’ve dubbed “eco-effectiveness”: designing from the ground up for both eco-safety and cost efficiency. They quote examples from their own work, like rooftops covered with soil and plants that serve as natural insulation; nontoxic dyes and fabrics; their current overhaul of Ford’s legendary River Rouge factory; and the book itself, which will be printed on a synthetic “paper” that doesn’t use trees. Because profitability is a requisite of the designs, the thinking goes, they appeal to business owners and obviate the need for regulatory apparatus. These shimmery visions may sound too good to be true, and the book is from time to time frustratingly short on specifics, particularly when it comes to questions of public policy and the political interests that might oppose widespread implementation of these designs. Still, the authors’ initial conceptions are an inspiring reminder that humans are capable of much more graceful environmental solutions than the ones we’ve settled for in the last half-century.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Scientific AmericanMcDonough and Braungart (an architect and a chemist) are collaborators in a firm that produces ecologically intellectual designs for corporations. They argue for a shift from the cradle-to-grave model of manufacturing, in which most of the materials that go into making merchandise end up as waste. They champion a cradle-to-cradle model, in which the materials are “circulated infinitely in industrial cycles … without loss of quality or harm to our surroundings or ourselves.”
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320 of 345 people found the following review helpful.
 Visionary Environmentalism
By David C N Swanson
This doesn’t feel like a book – literally. It’s a different size and shape, the pages are thick, the thing feels significantly heavier than it looks, and it’s waterproof.
The design of the book is making a point also made in the text of the book: the current state of recycling generally turns higher quality products into lower quality ones useful only for purposes other than the original product, and then eventually discards them. This is not recycling; it’s slow motion waste.
“Cradle to Cradle,” the object, is intended to be easily and completely recyclable into a new book of the same quality.
“Cradle to cradle,” the phrase, is contrasted to “cradle to grave.”
“Cradle to Cradle,” the text, argues in favor of making all human productions either recyclable in the way this book is or completely biodegradable so that they can be used as fertilizer.
In the future envisioned and partially created and described by this pair of authors, packaging will be tossed on the ground in response to signs reading “Please litter!” Appliances will be leased and returned to manufacturers to be completely recycled. Objects that must contain both biodegradable and inorganic recyclable elements will be easily separable into those respective parts: you’ll toss the soles of your shoes into the garden and give the uppers back to the shoemaker. And the water coming out of factories will be cleaner than what came in, motivating the factory owners to reuse it and eliminating the need for the government to test its toxicity.
These authors teemed up on the 1991 Hannover Principles to guide the design of the 2000 World’s Fair. McDonough has an architecture firm in Charlottesville, Va., and from 1994 to 1999 was dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. Braungart is a German chemist who for several years headed the chemistry section of Greenpeace.
This book is superb and should be read by those familiar with the issues of environmental design and those completely new to the topic. It draws on themes common in a long list of books ranging from “Ishmael,” by Daniel Quinn to “Natural Capitalism,” by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. But McDonough and Braungart make no acknowledgements of any such influences and present themselves (just as these other authors have) as the vanguard of a change as radical as the industrial revolution.
Their idea is incredibly important and well stated, but it’s not the clear break from current environmental (or for that matter industrial or “Third Way”) thinking that they maintain – and for students of evolution why should it need to be, what’s wrong with evolving our thinking a helpful bit further, as they have done? What McD and B propose as revolutionary is — instead of reducing pollution and consumption and having fewer children — making increased economic activity actually beneficial to the planet.
Three comments. First, this book does not suggest any radical change in behavior for the typical reader. (Have lots of kids, drive lots of cars, buy lots of stuff – what a break through!) This book is, rather, advice for architects, corporations, and municipalities. It is intended to free the typical reader of guilt. I think it should do something else as well, namely urge us to political action, to demanding of our democratically elected representatives that the earth-saving innovations described in the book be taken advantage of. All the descriptions in this book of common household objects, such as sofas, “off-gasing” toxic particles makes me want to take action to change things or at least buy a mask, not go shopping.
Second, the examples of new materials and building and product designs described in the book all build on the environmental thinking that McD and B so loudly reject. Reducing pollution to zero is not a “new paradigm” from reducing pollution to a teeny bit – it’s just better.
Third, the vision of rendering mad self-indulgence completely beneficial to all other species is far from a reality, and even the dream described by McD and B would not, in any way that I can imagine, make it possible to place an unlimited number of humans on the planet without hurting anything – more humans than under current practices, yes — an infinite number, no. But let’s remember that most of the people now on the planet do not do nearly as much damage as we do in this country. How many billion Americans the Earth can hold has not been answered.
There is also a disturbing thread of anti-government corporatism in the book. Ford and Nike and other corporations for which the authors have worked are described as heroes for their positive efforts, while their destructive practices are passed over. The authors repeat a distinction (citing Jane Jacobs’ “Systems of Survival”) between Guardians and Commerce, i.e. paternalistic government and noble corporate heroes:
“Commerce is quick, highly creative, inventive, constantly seeking short- and long-term advantage, and inherently honest: you can’t do business with people if they aren’t trustworthy.”
Is this a joke? Do these guys believe press releases they read from, say, Enron? (Apparently so, because later in the book they write: “…the summer of 2001, when unusually high energy demand in California led to rolling blackouts, skyrocketing prices, even accusations of profiteering….” Accusations! High demand or restrained supply? What rock have these intelligent authors been naturally cooling themselves under? Well, at least they recognize the concept of profiteering, even though it fits poorly with the inherent honesty of commerce.)
Immediately following the “inherently honest” comment (page 60) Mc D and B go on to equate regulation with partial pollution reduction, and to conclude that because complete pollution reduction is desirable and possible, regulation is bad. Instead they should conclude that rather than allowing limited pollution, regulators should ban it entirely (through whatever stages of phasing in that policy prove feasible).
97 of 106 people found the following review helpful.
 The proof is in your hands
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Proof that our technologically advanced, high-consumption industrial system can make environmentally sound and sustainable products. We can manufacture a whole range of goods that are ecologically efficient in that they reduce waste and yet are less expensive to make than traditionally manufactured items. Pick up CRADLE TO CRADLE and the proof is right there in your hands. “This book is not a tree” the authors tell us. Its slightly heavier than your average paperback, the pages are whiter and they’re also waterproof (I took the authors word on that one and am happy to say I was able to read on). The pages are made from plastic resins and fillers and in keeping with the message of “eliminating waste”, the book is 100% recyclable.
McDonough and Braungart’s vision of “Remaking the Way We Make Things” goes way beyond books. Why not buildings that produce more energy than they consume? Or “green” roofs that give off oxygen while cooling the occupants? How about factories that produce drinkable effluent? or products that when their useful life is over can be used as nutrients for soil? What sounds like science fiction is convincingly shown to be quite feasible by the authors. They offer numerous examples to prove it.
“We see a world of abundance, not limits” they say. As an architect (McDonough) and chemist (Braungart) they don’t have any special qualifications for this re-thinking and re-doing. What they simply have done is re-imagine the whole manufacturing process beginning with the design elements. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of asking the right questions and looking at things differently. They are not talking about smaller-scale industry or limiting themselves to the “four R’s” of traditional environmentalism – reuse, recycle, reduce, and regulate. With their intelligent designs, “bigger and better” is possible “in a way that replenishes, restores, and nourishes the rest of the world.”
McDonough and Braungart cover topics such as the history of the industrial revolution, new business strategies that emphasize eco-efficiency, the relationship between man, nature, and science, and the importance of design and planning. Hopeful, well written, thoroughly researched, and packed with practical examples, this refreshing book offers an alternative to our current industrial system that “takes, makes and wastes”. We have the talent, technology, and with the enthusiasm of these authors, we have the capability to achieve economic and ecological sustainability.
62 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
A Truly New Kind of Book
By R. Hardy
I can’t think of another book that so obviously practices what it preaches as _Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things_ (North Point Press) by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Books are usually printed on a fairly high grade of paper (compared to, say, that used in newspapers), paper which everyone knows comes from cutting down pretty and naturally useful trees. The paper is printed with inks that have heavy metals and other chemicals in them. You can recycle a book, but those chemicals get to be part of the mess, and are expensive to remove. Anyway, you don’t really recycle it, you _down_cycle it (the authors’ term), because the paper in it can only be bleached and chemically treated to turn it into a lower grade of paper, such as for newspapers. And newspapers can be turned into toilet paper, in further downcycling. _Cradle to Cradle_ is about breaking out of such “cycles” and into real cycles. It has smooth, bright white pages that are heavy, like the paper in the best books. They are not, however, paper in the usual sense, although you probably wouldn’t notice the difference unless your attention was called to it. They are made of plastic resins and inorganic fillers. Although the pages are designed to last as long as any paper book, these pages can be recycled by conventional means to make more paper of equal quality. They might even be _up_cycled into resins of greater complexity and utility. The ink on them can be easily removed by a safe solvent bath, or washing with extremely hot water, and does not contain dangerous chemicals.
The authors, one an architect and one a chemist, created McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in 1995, to consult with companies about designing sustaining products and factories. They have the ear of such companies as Ford and Nike, and their book is a primer on how they would like to see manufacturing work in the future to take part in natural cycles having little effect on the overall ecology of the earth. It is a rather thrilling little manifesto, by two obviously bright guys who don’t let their optimism get in the way of bringing in real results. The idea is for products and processes not to be “less bad,” but like ants or trees, to be positively good for the environment. “Waste is food” is the principle. Making products that can be composted, or can be used again without degrading them or the environment can be done, and it is no dream. Much of the book shows how the authors, as consultants, have put such principles into action.
It can be done. The words of the authors, clearly concerned about the future of the planet, are enthusiastic and convincing, and given the examples in this surprising book, it is clear that we will be seeing more design of products and processes that are incorporated into natural cycles. Given the example of the book itself, a good looking product on its own, the advantages are clear. And if that isn’t enough, the book can be read without risk in the bathtub, as it is entirely waterproof.
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