EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF HAZRAT SULTAN BAHOO- Sultan Bahoo Book

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF

HAZRAT SULTAN BAHOO

 BY

DR MUHAMMAD NASIR KHAN

Daastan Publishing

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Text copyrights © Dr. Muhammad Nasir Khan

Edited by: Narmeen Surahio

First Edition-------------------2010

Second Edition----------------2023 (Digital)
 

This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or distributed in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

DEDICATED

TO

HAZRAT SULTAN BAHOO (R.A)

PREFACE

It gives me great pleasure to present my book entitled, “Educational Philosophy of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo” which is meant to assist both the students of Education as well as those who have interest in thoughts of Sufis.

I am profoundly grateful to Almighty Allah for granting me courage and health to compile this book. If a reader finds it of some value to me, it is all by the grace of Allah Almighty, otherwise my shallow-wit and narrowness of knowledge be forgiven. I have endeavoured to compile this book on the basis of resource materials which are available to be through relevant books, documents and websites as well as my personal experiences Suggestions to improve upon the book are most welcome.

The author feels highly indebted to all the professional colleagues in the compilation of this book.

(MUHAMMAD NASIR KHAN)

Educational Thoughts and Practices of Sufis in Indo-Pak Sub Continent

All the Holy Prophets (Peace be Upon Them) and the favoured personalities of the Almighty Allah declared gaining and spreading knowledge as the dearest mission of their life.In the Indo-Pak Sub-Continent, the services of Ulema and Sufia in the field of education and spiritualism are an important chapter of our history. A lot of Ulema and Sufia came to India after the invasion of Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi. The most prominent among them are Hazrat Ali Hajweri and Sheikh Fareeduddin Attar. The Ulema and Sufia promoted the cause of education and, through their magnetic personalities, changed the otherwise ruined lives of countless people. Hazrat Ghaus Bahauddin Zakariya Multani laid the foundation of a seminary (madrassa), which was not only an educational institution but also a centre of ethical and moral education. The institution also provided opportunities to students to learn different arts, including calligraphy and book covering. There was special arrangement for Quranic education. The Department of Quranic Education was separately established in the madrassa.” The course of this educational institution was as follows: “Ilm-e-Naho, Kafia, summary, Fiqa, Usool-e-Fiqa, Usool-e-Buzdadi, Tafseer-e-Madraak and Baizavi were first included in the course, but latter, these were replaced with Hadith and ‘Mashaqul Anwaa’. This book was studied in Ahyaul Uloom Imam Ghazali. This book presented Fiqa in the light of Tassawuf. The book of Sheikhul Sheiukh Shahabuddin Suharwardi, Awariful Mawarif was also part of the syllabus. Baba Farid Ganj Shakar also very fondly taught this book. He also brought many books along with him. He introduced the people of Sindh and Multan with Hadaya.”In this regard, Muhammad Sadiq Qadri writes in the book, “Multan ki adbi-o-tehzibi zindgi me Sufia-e-Karam ka hissa” that “The likes of Hazrat Makhdoom Hameeduddin Alam were appointed as teachers during the era of Hazrat Shah Ruknuddin Alam. Hazrat Shah Ruknuddin Alam also continued the process of configuration of Tableighi Jamaats, the foundation of which was laid by Hazrat Ghausul Alamin. Due to his magnetic personality, the process of Tableighi delegations reached its peak. Besides religious education, he ensured provision of education about Muslim arts like calligraphy, poetry, buildings and history writing and languages like Arabic, Persian, Sindhi, Saraiki and Pashto made progress during that era. The teachers during that time used these languages as source of expression.