Different Teaching Techniques and Methods used by the last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH): An Explorative Study

Abstract

Effects of materialistic education system on the Muslim nation are very shocking. It has been creating uncertainties, miscalculations, imaginations, suspensions and misunderstandings in the mind of the Muslims and most significantly the teenage years. This pitiful scenario transforms and it has been causing the youths too greatly in losing their self-identity as Muslims. The inability to learn and experience the uniqueness of the educational pedagogy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has failed many people sadly to see the beauty of Islam in its holistic approach with regards to its educational pedagogy. Different pedagogical theories that have been established by the secular educationists carried out the conception of different faith systems from the west. However, having studied the life, practices and teachings of a man who has been considered as the best exemplary and the modest for the entire humanity by the Muslim and non-Muslims alike. It has been clearly noted that there are different ways and teaching methods applied by the Prophet (PBUH) to educate the old and the young in different ways, nature, time, techniques and diverse patterns. The study is designed to revisiting different approaches adopted by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to teach and train his friends, family, companions and enemies alike. This study is carried out through exploratory research by reexamining different teaching methods and techniques of the Prophet (PBUH) from different sources such as Hadith, Sunnah and the Seerah of the last Prophet (PBUH).  Investigator tried to achieve further understandings in different aspects which includes approaches, applications, stages and processes, etc. The researcher basically started with general overview about the teaching methods and techniques applied by Prophet (PBUH), in His whole methods of teaching and learning. It has been used as an instrument to recognize some critical related issues that could cover ways to different area of attentions for the more study. The tools used in this study includes documents analysis, journals, books, university record and report, interviewing Islamic educators and observation. A critical analysis is also used to shed more light on those different teaching methods and techniques applied by the last Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).