The need for religious institutions has been the need of the hour at all times. The light that has been emitting forth from the religious institutions will, Insha Allah, continues to illuminate the environment as before.
In the days of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) the nucleus of a religious institution existed in the shape of ASHAB-E-SUFFAH. This was a group of the Muslims dedicated to the cause of Islam receiving lessons directly from the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) and disseminated the knowledge so gained in the name of Allah. In fact, they were the fore runners of our religious institutions. The first teacher was the Holy Prophet himself while his ASHAB (companions) had been the students and the raised platform in the Holy Prophet's mosque was the first Islamic Institute (Madrasah).
The day of Thursday, 15th Muharram, A.H. 1283 (May 30, 1866), was that blessed and auspicious day in the Islamic history of India when the foundation stone for the renaissance of Islamic sciences was laid in the land of Deoband. Seeing the simple and ordinary manner in which it had been started, it was difficult to visualize and decide that a Madrasah beginning so humbly, with utter lack of equipment's, was destined to become the center, within a couple of years, of the Islamic sciences in Asia.Accordingly, before long, students desirous of studying the Holy Book and the Sunnah, the Shari'ah and the Tariqah (the spiritual path), began to flock here in droves from this sub continent as well as from neighboring and distant countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Bukhara and Samarqand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and the far off regions of the continent of Africa, and within a short-time the radiant rays of knowledge and wisdom illumined the heart and mind of the Muslims of the continent of Asia with the light of faith (Iman) and Islamic culture.
The need for religious institutions has been the need of the hour at all times. The light that has been emitting forth from the religious institutions will, Insha Allah, continues to illuminate the environment as before.
ReplyDeleteIn the days of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) the nucleus of a religious institution existed in the shape of ASHAB-E-SUFFAH. This was a group of the Muslims dedicated to the cause of Islam receiving lessons directly from the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) and disseminated the knowledge so gained in the name of Allah. In fact, they were the fore runners of our religious institutions. The first teacher was the Holy Prophet himself while his ASHAB (companions) had been the students and the raised platform in the Holy Prophet's mosque was the first Islamic Institute (Madrasah).
The day of Thursday, 15th Muharram, A.H. 1283 (May 30, 1866), was that blessed and auspicious day in the Islamic history of India when the foundation stone for the renaissance of Islamic sciences was laid in the land of Deoband. Seeing the simple and ordinary manner in which it had been started, it was difficult to visualize and decide that a Madrasah beginning so humbly, with utter lack of equipment's, was destined to become the center, within a couple of years, of the Islamic sciences in Asia.Accordingly, before long, students desirous of studying the Holy Book and the Sunnah, the Shari'ah and the Tariqah (the spiritual path), began to flock here in droves from this sub continent as well as from neighboring and distant countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Bukhara and Samarqand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and the far off regions of the continent of Africa, and within a short-time the radiant rays of knowledge and wisdom illumined the heart and mind of the Muslims of the continent of Asia with the light of faith (Iman) and Islamic culture.
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