Revealing Students’ Intelligence in Imam Al-Shafi’i R.H.M Poems

Abstract

Student is one of the products that complement the educational system. They are the individuals that are being developed for the purpose of satisfying the requirement towards developing a successful and civilized nation. In order to achieve this aim, al-Quran already highlighted two foundational elements in education; knowledge and attitude. Diwan al-Shafi’i r.h.m presents few of Imam Shafi’i’s poetic texts that are reviewing on the constructs of knowledge and attitude as how highlighted in al-Quran. All of these texts gathered from Diwan al-Shafi’i and categorized as the primary source. Using the textual analysis approach, this research tried to analyse few of poetic texts by the support of the secondary data that were obtained from various sources. The result of this study shows that Diwan al-Shafi’i r.h.m has outline four constructs of knowledge and five constructs of attitudes that are in line with the teaching of al-Quran and al-Sunnah. All of these analysed texts contribute towards empowering the intelligence of the students that is corresponding to the gist of al-Quran and al-Sunnah.