Islamic Education System

In the Islamic State, schools, institutions and universities which were

previously set up and run by the foreign imperialists and their agents,

such as Aitcheson College, Lahore, St Joseph's School, Dhaka, St Johns

Institution, Kuala Lumpur etc. will be shut down. These are institutions

deliberately set up to inculcate young Muslims with non Islamic ideas to

implant in their minds awe of the Western way of life.

The Islamic state will have its own media department which it will use to

propagate Islam and the Islamic values throughout the world and refute

all the lies and misconceptions that have been propagated by the

disbelievers. All the latest technological and scientific means of

communications, such as satellite, electronic mail, teleconferencing etc.

will be tapped, used and explored by the state in its quest to educate the

citizens of Khilafah. Foreign media sources like BBC World Service, CNN,

Voice of America etc., which exist in the Muslim world to confuse, attack

and divert Muslims from Islam will be banned.

Mass-media. TV, Radio, newspapers, books and conferences are the

existing means which can be used within the Islamic State. No

permission is required to set up any of the above, provided what they

propagate is within the bounds of Islam.

Today the Muslim world is plagued by astonishingly high levels of

illiteracy, e.g. Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Messenger of Allah (saw)

tackled head on the issue of illiteracy amongst Muslims. He (saw) made

the ransom of each prisoner at Badr to teach ten Muslims how to read.

The Islamic state would strive to ensure every Muslim thus turns into

either a scholar (mujtahid) or a learner (muttabii).

During most of Islamic history, every major city within the Khilafah

possessed public and private libraries. Libraries such as Cordoba and

Baghdad boasted collections of over 400,000 books.

Arabic became the most important scientific language due to translation

of works of Aristotle, Plato, Pythagorean School, Greek astronomy,

Ptolemy and Euclid. Muslim scholars discussed and refuted many of the

ideas of these scholars, e.g. Imam Ghazzali's 'Tahafut al Falasifah'

('Refutation of the Philosophers') and Ibn Taymiyya's 'Kitab ul lbtal'

('Book of Invalidity').

The Muslims use of the Zero, which was previously absent in

mathematical Sciences enabled great advances, solving problems that for

centuries remained unsolved. Muslim mathematicians devised and

developed algebra, and the concept of algorithms were thought up (and

named after) AI Khwarizmi, a famous Muslim scholar who lived in the

Islamic State.

The Khilafah state would ensure the provision of free education to every

male and female (Muslim and non Muslim) at both primary and

secondary levels. Education at higher levels would be encouraged and

the state would help in funding those who wish to do so as much as

possible.

The Khilafah state would set up libraries and laboratories in other than

the schools and colleges in order to enable those who wish to take up

further studies to do so, in various subjects such as hadith and tafseer, or

medicine, civil engineering, pure sciences etc.

Medicine: Muslim physicians developed many surgical instruments to

perform operations, as well as describing countless other aspects of

medical science, such as:

Al Razi used alcohol as an antiseptic, and found a treatment for smallpox

in the 10th century.

Ibn Sina diagnosed and treated meningitis in the 11th century, and his

textbook of medicine (Al Qanun) was used as a standard reference in

Europe for centuries after.

Ibn al Nafis described the minor circulation of blood in the 14th century.

The words 'Retina' and 'Cataract' derive from Arabic. Muslims were

expert in ophthalmology, and explained the workings of the eye, and

devised surgical procedures to remedy cataracts during the 13th century

(all CE).

Science flourished under t he Islamic Education system. The Muslims

were the most advanced in the world in fields such as: mathematics,

geometry, optics, astronomy, medicine, physics, natural sciences,

engineering and many others.

The Khaleef Haroon al Rashid would punish parents who had not

ensured that their children had learned to read and pronounce Arabic.

He also provided financial incentives for anyone who would teach, learn,

propagate or debate issues of the Deen.