Image: Reuters Berita 24 English - Clergyman Abdul Kahfi established an Islamic boarding school to assist deaf kids in learning Arabic and r...
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Berita 24 English - Clergyman Abdul Kahfi established an Islamic boarding school to assist deaf kids in learning Arabic and reciting verses from the Qur'an. He did this out of concern for how Indonesian students with hearing impairments frequently miss out on religious education.
The Darul A'shom school, which was established in 2019 in Yogyakarta, central Java, presently employs 12 teachers and educates 115 children from all across the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, ranging in age from seven to 28.
Abdul hopes that by opening the school, future generations will find it simpler to learn about Islam.
The preacher noted how interest in his school had grown swiftly and remarked, "Today's hearing-impaired folks scarcely know religion in depth because from school age they have never learnt about it."
Children with special needs in Indonesia get limited religious instruction as part of the curriculum, beginning at age eight or nine rather than kindergarten as is the case for many other kids.
In Indonesia, only three out of ten children with impairments are able to attend school, according to a study by the UN agency for children (UNICEF).
Learning to recite and memorise the Qur'an at school often takes hearing-impaired individuals five years.
Muhammad Farhad, a 10-year-old pupil, said that he could now read and memorise 30 juz (sections) of the Qur'an and that he hoped to become a cleric in the future so that he could impart his knowledge to others.
Numerous religious schools, including thousands of Islamic boarding schools, are the sole options for children from lower-income households to receive an education in Indonesia.
