the worth of education

We don't value our Islamic knowledge anymore. We pay a fortune on school fees, tuition etc, but when it comes to Islamic knowledge, the local mosques free 2 hour excuse for a creche suffices. They say actions speak louder than words. This is what we think of Islamic knowledge.

compare this to the story of Faroukh who was a pious predecessor of ours. He was newly married and went off to jihad. He stayed on Jihad for a long long time (30 years I think), and before he went he left a huge box of gold coins, and told his wife not to touch it, and gave her a little gold, and said spend this until he came back in a few months. The wife, spread out this little sum over 2 years, and now she had a baby to care for too. Eventually she started taking only the necessary amounts to survive out of the box.

Many years past and went Faroukh turned back homeward, the first thing he did was visit the Masjid, where he saw a crowd around a very knowledgeable scholar preaching, and he listened to him, though he didn't see him, and he was very impressed by the depth of his wisdom. Afterwards he went home to find a young man entering his house. Faroukh had a bit of an argument with him saying it was his house etc and what the hell did the guy think he was doing, who was claiming it was his house etc. But all the people came around saying it was the young mans house. Then inside a voice called out asking "Is that you Faroukh?". Then the wife and husband met up again after 30 years. Soon the conversation turned to the gold...the gold had disappeared. The wife asked "Did you see a man in the Masjid?" Faroukh answered that he had and that he was very impressed.
"would you like your son to be like that?" the mother asked, and again Faroukh agreed. Then that pious woman revealed how she had spent what in today's money is about £2 million on her son's Islamic education so that he got the very best, and the man was indeed his son.
Faroukh ran outside and started yelling that he was the son of the scholar X (i forgot the name).

These people lived their belief, their deen, their Eman showed through their actions....does ours?

Here is an Islamicly orientated economics blog I wrote on one of my other sites:

http://economicsguide.blogspot.com/2007/06/goldsmith-opens-pandoras-box.html

its pertaining the way interest pervades the system and raising awareness about the evils of fractional reserve banking.