Spiritual Heart Education Model
Spiritual Heart Education is a holistic approach to learning which combines religious, moral and aesthetic elements. Its aim is to educate children about religion and touch their hearts through art, music and literature.
Spiritual Heart Education Spiritual Heart Education aims to nurture awareness and love in the heart. This is embodied in daily practices and religious rituals involving intention, awareness, benevolence, sincerity, contemplation, self-reflection, gratitude, patience and trust in God.
Our aim is to raise our children to be compassionate, aware of beauty, self-aware, confident and sensitive individuals using Spiritual Heart Education methods.
This educational approach provides an answer to the question, “What kind of person do we want to develop?” as follows: A person who has faith in God, takes the Prophet Muhammad as their guide and possesses good character.
The difference of the Spiritual Heart Education Model:
→ Instilling spiritual and moral values in individuals and ensuring they reflect these in their behaviour.
→ Supporting individuals in developing self-confidence.
→ Raising individuals to become sensitive.
Spiritual Heart Education is a human-centred education model
The curriculum of this model aims to equip children with the fundamental skills necessary to become good, virtuous individuals. A good and virtuous individual is someone who is:
→ Self-aware and conscious of their responsibilities (awareness of stewardship)
→ Free and conscious of his/her freedom (consciousness of servitude)
→ Hardworking, kind, honest and altruistic
→ Learning, thinking and productive
→ Compassionate, respectful and protective
→ Building relationships with Allah, the universe and humanity based on love and affection
→ Conscious of inner awareness and intention (self-awareness)
→ Able to consider what they do and why with their heart, directing their actions with intention.
→ Approaching life with a sense of responsibility, developing resilience and hope in the face of difficulties through gratitude, patience and trust.
→ Paying attention to the etiquette of the body, speech and space and considering grace a moral attitude (humility and decorum).
→ Working sincerely and keeping in mind that one is in the presence of Allah (benevolence and sincerity).
→ Giving meaning to oneself, events and creation by contemplating them and engaging in regular introspection and self-evaluation (contemplation and self-reflection).
→ Giving meaning to oneself, events and creation by contemplating them and engaging in regular introspection and self-evaluation.
→ Reading and protecting nature as a sign; rejecting waste and excess; viewing nature as a trust.
→ One who learns the subtleties of speech and the wisdom of silence, and who uses the language of courtesy — the wisdom of beautiful speech and silence.
In other words, the starting point of Spiritual Heart Training is this: Action that begins with intention, deepens with tranquillity, matures with gratitude and patience, and finds its true form with generosity and sincerity. Thus, children and young people develop a sense of responsibility and possibility by connecting their inner and outer worlds.