Re: Dr. Iqbal on Madrassas
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.
exactly and our pak studies and mashrati uloom donot go in detail to these atrocities. we still have our education board which breeds clerk mentality, originality or change is shunned.
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.
precisely.