Dr. Iqbal on Madrassas

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Re: Dr. Iqbal on Madrassas

i mean most of the people here are arguing that iqbal was fond of madrassas at his time and those madrassas were quite different to current ones. (i am not denying the existence of few bad apples now a day but that is like saying some hostels have sinners living in them so lets shun the entire boarding system.)

I dont know how in few decades they have become different. If these people are referring to arm struggle and oppose madrassahs becuase they think they are involded in that, then Iqbal was against the the Mullahs who didnt believe in arm struggle/jihad. He was fond of mujahid Ulemas.

it would be interesting to know what happened to madrassas graduates at the time of iqbal at the hands of brits.

Well when British came to India, they murdered Ulemas and according to British sources, they murdered 17000 scholars, and closed down all the madrassas. Infact anyone with a beard, they would kill him. The scholars which survived they opened up new madrassas and from these madrassas were many of the people who fought for the independence such as Maualana Muhmmaed Ali Johar, Maulana Shaukat Ali, Maulana Ubaid ullah Sindi, Maualan Abul Kalam Azad, Shaikh Mahmood ul Hassan, Shaikh Hussain Ahmed Madani, Hazrat Rasheed Ahmed Gangohi. Most of these scholars spent many years in the jails of British. Shaikh Mahmood ul Hassan and Hussain Ahmed Madani were sent to Kala Paani and Malta.

perhaps that would then lead to the question that whether the western world has the problem with flaws in current madrassa system or the very idea of religious educational institutes.

Their problem is not just madrassas but anyone who speaks against their injustice. They were never for these madrassas and I have mentioned earlier how they closed all the madrassas when they came to India first. They fear these Mullah not the graduates of secular institutes.

people graduating from madrassa would want a world where they can apply the knowledge that they have picked up and the idea of islamic state is very monsterous to non muslim western nations but when muslims fall for the propoganda sir peetnay ko dil chahta hai

Like lets take Taliban, it is said thet Ulemas cant run the government, but Taliban proved the world wrong.