Dr. Hüseyin Kâmi BÜYÜKÖZER
Education is a relative concept. According to what does it mean to be educated or not? To be a doctor, medical education; in order to be able to do engineering according to the branches construction, mechanical, architecture, chemistry, veterinary, mining, electrical, electronics, business administration, computer software engineering education, to be able to be a pharmacist, pharmacy education; law education in order to be a lawyer, prosecutor or judge, to become an accountant, one must have an accounting education. More precisely, one must be taught these professions. So, with what education will a good person, right person, moral person be formed? More precisely, which educational institution will he follow?
Morality is the product of society. In that case, the society will, and has to, give to its members the moral norms it has accepted, starting from their birth during the course of life. The moral norms of the society will be formed by its belief system, namely religion. Educational institutions of the society have to make a program based on these moral norms. If they don’t, their actions to train various professions and scientists will not yield the desired result. As a matter of fact, those who made the billion-dollar tornadoes that have occupied the public in recent years, those who were seized in various operations carried out repeatedly by the security units and who committed disgraceful crimes such as bribery, extortion, abuse of power, establishing drug gangs, prostitution, and child pornography, mostly, they are people who have studied at the colleges and elite universities of this society.
In the period of ignorance, educated people were advocating idolatry and exploiting the society with this weapon. Since the society was not literate, but had high morals and virtues, Allah (ﷻ) gave the mission of prophethood to Muhammad (ﷺ).
So being educated, having a diploma is not enough to make people respectable and moral. It does not prevent them from stealing, making unjust gains, and doing harm to people. So, we should search for these virtues, these ethics in other sources. At the beginning of our article, we stated that the moral norms of the society can be formed by its belief system, namely religion. At this point, at the beginning of many virtues, the importance of a body that is fed with halal foods, which starts from the womb, emerges. It becomes clear how important the positive effect of halal nutrition on our hormones, behaviours, and material and spiritual life is.
