When Allah breathed His Spirit into Adam He gave Adam the responsibility and the ability as His Khalifah to help bring into being a world right in every way, all of it according to the Will of Allah. 

This future that Allah wanted for Adam and his descendents has not yet come to be. 

The Khalifah Program and methods we are using at ADNI Islamic school provide a means for us as Muslims to get back on the right path and begin making the sinful world of today in a virtual paradise on earth, pleasing to Allah.

While some of the language and concepts of the Khalifah Program and method way sound new to those used to traditional Muslim ways of speech and thinking, everything in the Khalifah Program and its methods had their origins in the Qur’an, Sunnah of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and the interpretations of Islamic scholars both from the early days of Islam and from the present.

There is good reason to believe that traditional Islamic belief and practice, with the addition of the Khalifah  ‘tool’ for helping to bring about positive changes in the hearts and minds of today’s Muslim youth can stop the long downward slide of Muslim society and return us to the highest position in all fields of human endeavour.

We want to send out from our Islamic schools students whose brilliant minds, kind manner, hard work, social rightness, and spiritual practice will enable them to succeed, even in today’s secular materialistic society, that they will be as beacons of human rightness respected and admired by all who meet them.

No Islamic education program or method can succeed without dedicated Muslim teachers, motivated and willing, to put those programs or methods into practice as part of their service to Allah and in fulfillment of their own role as Khalifah of Allah.

You are the teachers who can effect the future of our students and help determine the future of the Muslim Ummah.

Last year at ADNI Islamic School we only put a very small part of the Khalifah Program into practice. We are so very thankful that even in that somewhat difficult beginning year you as good and dedicated Muslim teachers were able to achieve a remarkable degree of success using the tool of the Khalifah method.

Here are some of the survey results from students, parents, and from yourselves as teachers in the ADNI school!

Student survey results:

Parent survey results:

Teacher survey results:

" This year, due to circumstances of my failing health and realizing this is likely our last chance to see how much can be achieved when using the Khalifah Method at its full potential, the directors of ADNI Islamic School have committed to carry out the Khalifah Program in its fullest practice and to the best of our ability."

Bro. (Prof.) Muhammad Al’Mahdi 

This year the Khalifah method is to be the educational philosophy of ADNI Islamic School. All teachers will be asked to do several simple things during every class period to help support and magnify the effects of the Khalifah program. What is being asked of you to support the Khalifah Program has been unanimously approved by the ADNI School Directors, the Principal, and the Headmistresses.

These are the three simple things you as a teacher at ADNI Islamic School are being asked to do this year:

1.  Each class period find at least two ways to remind the students that they are Khalifah of Allah.

2.  Each class period find at least five positive comments you can make to students praising any good behaviour they might have shown or good characteristics they have.

3.   Each class period consistently enforce the list (to be provided) of school rules, but do so with ‘kind discipline.

1. Examples of ways to remind the students they are Khalifah of Allah:

“I love to think myself being a Khalifah of Allah, given the ‘Aql (mind) to remember Allah all the time at all place… I’m sure you love to think that too...” 

“… don’t forget, we are the Khalifah of Allah, so we should try harder in our studies because we want to make the world a better place to live!” 

“… come on boys! I want to be a good Khalifah by teaching you this… so, don’t you think you should try the same by paying more attention to the class?”

2. Examples of ways to praise students for good behaviour of positive characteristics:

“Thank you for being so attentive today, I really appreciate it” 

“Hey…that is amazing! I left the class for ten minutes and everybody was behaving so well!” 

“I really like every time you pass up your homework on time… and because of that I’m sure Allah will reward you for being good Khalifah!” 

“Do you think you can always line up and walk properly to the canteen like today? Because I just love to see you all walking in an orderly manner…”

3. Examples of how to enforce school rules with ‘kind’ discipline:

 Þ                       Keep reminding the students to follow the rules[1]

 “Dear girls… I know you like to look good all the time, but don’t you think we should learn to be punctual all the time?”

 “Boys… you might think that hitting your friends is just for fun, but unfortunately the little brother Khalifah don’t know that. That gives them bad messages…”

 “Class, we had agreed last week that we want to keep the classroom clean and nice, hadn’t we? So, let’s keep our promise…” 

If you do only that much it will virtually guarantee a major success in helping our students to develop excellent Islamic character this year. If you would like to do more than follow those three simple guidelines, we will be providing monthly Khalifah training session for all teachers, and we would encourage you to become regular visitors to the khalifah lodge where more personal opportunities to learn more will be available.

We are shaping the children

- to WANT to be good

- to LOVE what Allah loves

- to DISLIKE what is wrong

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Remember,

 we are not making them do good..

                                   Instead,

                we are instilling the desire to be good.

Let’s go back to the main objectives of the program…

	Instill Correct Islamic Akhlaq.
	Not Just To Make Them To Want To Be Good, But To Love Being Good..
	Excel In The World And In The Hereafter.
	The Most Important Aim Is To Love Allah.

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