Assalam-o-alaikum to everyone,
The topic assigned to our class for the third week is ‘’Should Co-education be allowed at all levels in Pakistan?”.
I say “yes”. Co education should be allowed at all levels in Pakistan. What my logic says is bring the rule of law and do whatever you want. As a matter of fact coeducation is considered something really embarrassing and undesirable in Pakistan. As we go out of our home and conduct a short survey on the cause why coeducation should not be allowed in Pakistan, then we will be able to know that maximum people would answer like this;
“You know Pakistan is an Islamic country and Islam strictly forbade the mixing of males and females”.
But again a question arises here that the people (who say like above) really know Islam?
If they know then surely they would not pass a comment like this because Islam forbade the mixing of males and females freely but never forbade education at any cost. Hazrat Muhammad (SAW), the greatest preacher of Islam has emphasized upon getting education at several occasions. He (SAW) said;
‘’Seek education from cradle to grave”.
And
‘’Seek education even if you have to go to China’’.
Moreover he said;
‘’It is obligation of each and every Muslim man and woman to seek education’’.
This is what Islam says. During his entire life Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) never gave any statement like mentioned above (former most). If we sharply notice Islam then at the occasion of HAJJ-the most sacred worship, there is a free intermingling of males and females without any kind of wrong connotations, Why? Because Islam is the most modern religion of the world. While offering “Tawaaf” during hajj a woman is not allowed to hide her face. None of the men get attracted towards women neither women get attracted towards men. The reason is that everyone feels oneself nearest to Allah. So the need of hour is to cultivate a thought in our minds that God is always nearest to us.
The thing which really matters for any purpose is our up grooming and the ethical values injected into our souls by our elders. If one has negative intentions for anything then one will do anything to achieve one’s aim in any case. Same is the case for positive intentions and positive thinking.
Our ethical, social, mental and physical maturity matters for having a coeducation system. If there is positivity and real essence of our religious values engraved into our souls then we can handle all situations like little problems of coeducation.
Moreover Pakistan is not an ideally perfect country. We lack the reasonable resources for running separate institutes for boys and girls. So one of the reason for my favor to this topic is that we should utilize the opportunities for getting ahead at any cost.
One more point to be noticed is that in our and other countries solo institutes also have bad reputes regarding mutual affairs among boys and girls as the girls or boys who bear a lose character and ill moral values can get themselves involved in bad issues wherever they are no matter opportunities provided or not.
One more reason for increasing number of non-marital affairs in educational institutes is irrational use of mobile phones, cable televisions, movies and internet. From childhood level to the completely maturity level one needs proper moral attention and teachings.
In medical colleges, females can never get educated solely because for future life when urinal and vaginal operations have to be performed then it becomes really embarrassing and creates a lack of confidence to operate on patients because it is almost impossible for society to have completely separate hospitals for males and females.
At the end, to conclude I would like to say that in a non-ideal country like Pakistan, it is not possible for government to uphold separate education institutes for men and women. So we should go out of such mental clitches and hypothetical world and go for a rational and pragmatic approach. The need of the hour is not to think whether there should be co-institutes or not but to up groom ourselves and our children both mentally and ethically so that we may get prosperity.
