By Farhan Jumani
Our times are unparallel in the history of mankind. We are lucky that knowledge is freely available at our finger-clicks. In the past, one has to go through series of troubles to get information handy and accurate. But today knowledge travels electronically to become accessible to all.
“This has been described as the age of technology and blessed may be those who through their technological discoveries have enabled man to conquer space and to hope one day to draw sufficient food from the earth and the sea to feed himself. Blessed also may be those who have helped eliminate from this earth such crippling diseases as poliomyelitis and perhaps one day cancer. But through all this development, hand in hand and side by side with it, the spirit of Islam must survive. A society without a strong sense of its own identity has time and again in human history proved to be well on the way to decay.”
Every time I read and reflect over these words of Aga Khan – IV, these invoke new and deep meanings. First time when I read these words, I picked up the topic religious identity of Ismaili youth to explore further for final thesis in my graduation programme. During that time, when reflecting, it led me to think about the notion rapid transition of change. The above words constantly focus on the transition in a way of life through constructing knowledge. Over the past few years, much time and efforts have been made to improve the education level of general masses. Quality education is the only way which can create the impact in order to cope-up the challenges of socio-economy.
In this age of information, access to knowledge is on single click of the general masses. For the educators, scholars and religious preachers, they not only need to update their knowledge with time, it is also important for them to guide the masses to take quality education in order to improve their information which they have collected in the chunks from different sources.
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