A course on Personality development: An outline in the light of Quran, Ḥadīth and Sīrah

Abstract

Modern researches find that lecturing method is 68 percent less effective than activity based learning but in our universities usually the lecturing method is being used to teach Sīrah related courses which are not producing the required results. This article studying Quran, Ḥadīth and Sīrah of the Prophet regarding speaking, hand shaking, discussion, walking, mocking, snubbing, welcoming, greeting, arguing, time management, eve teasing, analyzing etc., develops a Sīrah based course for university students with a proper activity based methodology of marking and examining the growth in the students’ personality at the end of the semester or class.