"FITNAH" IN SOCIETY

Dear all readers,

May well always be with you all...

I feel sad about what has happened to the Headmaster of the SK Seri Pristana. I am sure not everyone happy about the issue - regardless of which side we were at. But for sure this isn't good for our education!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems that some of the parents nowadays does not really understand what is the school for, the purpose of having school in the society and alike. The understanding of the parents to their children education is at the brinks. The actions of arguing and blaming if we see from simple perspectives is just about concern about their children education. But if we look further and deeper it comes to a question whether the parents does really understand about the education and school. This is not good to our generation.

I would like to share a story about my friends. One day we have an argument about the teachers and schools. They said that teachers normally can not be trusted. And more over to what they argued, schools and teachers are hopeless and not capable. I always consider myself as a teacher, not because of I am teaching, but I have children my own. That is why I always consider myself as a teacher. As such I argued with them by saying that teachers are always honest and responsible to their teaching and the profession. Interestingly the argument becomes tense and cannot be controlled anymore. At the end I just made conclusion like this ..."if you think that you do not trust the teachers and the schools, and think that you guys are good enough in educating the children, I suggest you to take your children back home and educate them by yourself".... then the argument stopped.

In fact to me, we should understand the bond between teachers, parents, society and schools are suppose to be close. We should work together in ensuring the educational process of the children is done effectively. But what we have done is something different and unusual. Taking the SK Pristana as an example, we should look back to ourselves and start asking..."what type of parents are we"...until we dare to do such a thing to our children's school. I think I should say the same to these types of parents the same that I did before to my friends!!!!!! One thing that I think those parents should and must do is that to ask forgiveness from the school especially to the teachers of the wrong doing that they have committed. What ashamed.

To me it is not only about the capability of being a parent. I think I have mentioned this many times in my previous story about the requirement of being a parent. It is clear that those parents still lack in parenting skills. In other words they still need to learn how to become a parent. Or shall I say they actually does not have the capability of being a parent or they actually are not ready to become a parent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But what more dangerous about this is that the "fitnah". Prophet PBUH has reminded us about the dangerousness of the "fitnah" if we fail to control it. It is now become apparent that the "fitnah" is now become something common and what make it interesting is that people like to do it and they happy to do it.

How do we understand about "fitnah" really. Prophet PBUH clearly warned us that "fitnah" is more dangerous than killing. Killing others will only affect to that particular persons and his relatives. But "fitnah" can destroyed not just the people but the society, which including us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People now likes to spread story as they like to. Without any evidences they happily spread the untrue story as long to them it is true. And what make things worse is that, people tend to buy it, just like those parents at SK Seri Pristana.

There are many times we have seen or heard about one incident like car accident. It was told from one person to another that the car driver was dead at the scene instantly but in fact the things that dead was only the car engine!!!!!!!!!!! What a childish behaviour that we have now, failed to see between what is true and right and what is wrong and fake.

This is actually like I said earlier is not good for our children. They read the story, they heard the news and this is not good at all. Even telling something about the kids right in front of them is not encouraged. Do check back to what has been said in Islam as well as the learning theorists.....regarding the parenting issues...

I think that's all that I would like to say...

May Allah be always with us and guide us....

Thank you