A4. Adopting IISTD Action Plan for (a) Muslim-Majority and

(b) Muslim-Minority Countries Besides USA: Islamizing

IISTD Plan of Action for USA may be adapted all over the world by individuals, academic institutions, Islamic organizations and government agencies to suit their personal, institutional and national conditions. Following a Hadith/Saying of Prophet Muhammad, al-ilm bit-ta`llum, "Knowledge/education is by self-learning", a college student or instructor must teach himself or herself one's discipline from the Islamic point of view BESIDES the secularized according to the IISTD Plan; an instructor should undertake Islamic discipline-oriented research and publications, and teach at least in informal settings. God's laws of physics and chemistry, psychology and economics, are khalq Allah ( creation of God ), ayat Allah ( signs of God ) and Sunnah ( Tradition ) of God. Therefore, there is no escape from Islamization of knowledge and its application; we may muddle through and suffer due to secularized ( kafirized ) knowledge, but we will be held accountable also in the Hereafter: "Indeed, the din ( way ) with God is Islam ...". "And if one seeks a din other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the life to come he shall be among the losers." ( Quran 3:19, 85 ).

The following give some principles, recommendations of conferences, plans, and models of Islamization:

* Education and the Muslim World: Challenge & Response. Eds. Niaz Erfan & Zahid Valie ( Recommendations of Four World Conferences on Muslim Education; Sound Vision, Chicago, 1-800-432-4262. First published, Arabic & English, World Center for Islamic Education, Umm al-Qura University, Makkah, 1403/1983 )

* Al-Faruqi, Ismail R. Islamization of Knowledge. ( Also other publications of IIIT/International Institute of Islamic Thought, including the American Jour. of Islamic Social Sciences, P.O. Box 669, Herndon, VA 22070. Ph:703-471-1133. iiit@iiit.org )

* Husaini, S. Waqar Ahmed. 1) Islamic Environmental Systems Engineering: Systems Study of... Law, Politics, Education, Economics, and Sociology of Science & Culture of Islam (2) Teaching Islamic Sciences and Engineering (3) Islamic Science and Public Policies 4) Quran for Astronomy & Earth Exploration from Space 5) Islamic Thought in the Rise and Supremacy of Islamic Technological Culture (6) Water Resources Sciences and Engineering in the Quran: Indexes and Explanations (7) Economics in the Quran: Indexes and Introduction ( New editions of #4-7 available in late 1999 from the Major distributors: i) www.islam.org/iistd ( IslamiCity, CA, USA (ii) Islamic Foundation, Markfield Dawah Ctr., Ratby Lane, Leicester LE6 ORN, UK. Arabic translations of #4 to #7 available also in Saudi Arabia from Ubaikan Bookstores, etc. )

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Excerpt From: Islamization of Knowledge and Higher Education,

IISTD Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3, Shaban 1419/December 1998.

Editor, Prof. S. Waqar Ahmed Husaini, IISTD President, and

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, CA, 1986-continuing.