Had the madrasas not been there, particularly during the post-Partition era, any Islamically knowledgeable and practising person – including Mr. Mahmood Alam Siddiqui (“A Case Study of Islamic Madrasas: With Special Reference to the Sachar Committee Report”, Radiance, 21-27 June) and his ilk – would have hardly existed on the surface of the country. Ridiculing and making fun of madrasas, depreciating their precious services to the cause of Islam, abusing and humiliating the noble souls who establish, manage and run them against all odds and unfavourable circumstances, is nothing short of a moral crime. It is rather a sin against Islam and the Ummah.
A Muslim worth name, particularly one who thinks of himself being a well-wisher of the cause of Muslim education, of madrasas and for that matter of the Ummah, must stop abusing Ulama, humiliating the madrasa system and cursing these respectable institutions teaching Islamics, the Arabic language, the Qur’ān, Islamic values, and at the same time bolstering the very foundation of Islamic culture in our upcoming generations, who otherwise would be robbed off their very Islamic identity and character by the ever increasing thrust of anti-divine pure materialist education and personality-development mechanism.
Z.A. Mansoorie
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