This connects directly to the sequencing question from your last piece. Nearly every item on this list, punctuality, keeping one's word, work discipline, waiting one's turn, is treated in most Islamic schools as a discipline matter handled through rules and consequences, not as something actually taught with the same rigor as fiqh or Qur'an. Classical adab literature had a whole curriculum for exactly this, formation of character as a distinct discipline with its own texts and sequencing, and it mostly disappeared from modern school schedules. So the micro-foundations you're describing are downstream of a curricular choice, not just a values gap. We treat this as one of the core disciplines in the K-12 sequence we build at The Foundations Press, alongside Aqidah and Fiqh, rather than as a hidden curriculum enforced through discipline slips. More at thefoundationspress.com.
Thank you for your valuable comment. Be it a value gap or a curricular neglect, the result is the fact that millions of people lack the work discipline, don’t keep their promise, they lie easily, they don’t observe traffic rules, they throw their trash into public places, and they disturb their neighbors. Human quality and individual moral qualifications are terribly low. We have to start from here if we want to see a better Muslim world…
This connects directly to the sequencing question from your last piece. Nearly every item on this list, punctuality, keeping one's word, work discipline, waiting one's turn, is treated in most Islamic schools as a discipline matter handled through rules and consequences, not as something actually taught with the same rigor as fiqh or Qur'an. Classical adab literature had a whole curriculum for exactly this, formation of character as a distinct discipline with its own texts and sequencing, and it mostly disappeared from modern school schedules. So the micro-foundations you're describing are downstream of a curricular choice, not just a values gap. We treat this as one of the core disciplines in the K-12 sequence we build at The Foundations Press, alongside Aqidah and Fiqh, rather than as a hidden curriculum enforced through discipline slips. More at thefoundationspress.com.
Thank you for your valuable comment. Be it a value gap or a curricular neglect, the result is the fact that millions of people lack the work discipline, don’t keep their promise, they lie easily, they don’t observe traffic rules, they throw their trash into public places, and they disturb their neighbors. Human quality and individual moral qualifications are terribly low. We have to start from here if we want to see a better Muslim world…