UPBRINGING IS A MISSION AND NOT A MERE DUTY

Interview with Professor Salih Haušić

Abstract

With Professor Salih Haušić we talked about perception of upbringing in the Islamic tradition and about the complexity of upbringing process within the framework of upbringing-educational institutions of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a special focus on Madrasa where, unlike in other institutions, a separate upbringing office, which faces numerous challenges, is established. Seeing the upbringing as an activity through which an individual is formed as a man, than practice or actions of man in his daily activities is a significant indicator of success of the upbringing process. Therefore, a critical analysis of the upbringing process has to involve a critical view of the theory and practice of the upbringing. Presently Proffessor Haušić teaches subjects of Aqaid and Tafseer at the Gazi Husrev-bey’s Madrasa in Sarajevo, he was also engaged as an upbringer in this madrasa and a mua’llim in his long service as an imam.