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The Dar al - Ulum, Deoband , is also the first educational institution which presented the concept of " Autonomous System of Education " during the British regime in India and assiduously endeavoured to maintain intellectual liberty of the nation in an atmosphere of political slavery. Though this was a very difficult work, the Dar al - Ulum , by practising it , made it easy. Inspite of the offer of the British Government the Dar al - Ulum never accepted this aid. Hence it has remained free from many such restri ctions which necessarily come in with the government grand - in - aid. It is being said by certain people that when the government was willing to give valuable financial aid to the Dar al - ulum, it was not proper on its part to decline and abstain from accepting it ; howevermuch generosity the community may show , it cannot compete with the substantial help of the government. These people most probably failed to notice this point that it is necessary to keep the Arabic schools free from the influence of the state, for though it be a governmen : of the Muslims , unless it be a government of the purely Islamic style , its politics cannot be candid and unalloyed , whereas such education is required for the Arabic schools that may be absolutely free from all sorts of un - Islamic influence and extrane ous practice. Hence the Dar al - Ulum, Deoband , never accepted any aid from the government in power ; its entire resource and capital consists in reliance on Allah. The Dar al - Ulum has been busy in the service of the religion depending only on the Muslim masses, and notwithstanding the swift and severe vicissitudes of day and night it is maintaining itself and going on with its old dignity and traditions. Today, unfortunately for our community , the purpose of education has come down to this that bagging through it some good and lucrative service substantial livelihood may be earned. As though the very intent and denotation of education has been altogether changed, and now , instead of " knowledge for the sake of knowledge " , it too has become a means like many other means of earning livelihood , although it is a natural demand of the dignity of knowledge that its ideal be sublime. No doubt www Allowie wwww the profane arts and sciences are acquired so that worldly progress may be achieved through them, but if this ideal is restrained only to one's own personal gain and one's own advantage is kept in view , this sheer selfishners W To selfishness. To expend the invaluable wealth of knowledge for only one's Unca own ends is not to recognise the greatness of knowledge. The purpose of acquiring secular arts and sciences should also be this that through them the resources of the whole community ( or natic.n ) may be developed and they may become the cause of not only one's own rise and progress but also for the advancement of the country and the community. The aim and ideal cherished by the studerts of Arabic schools in acquiring knowledge is to seek Allah's pleasure and to serve His creatures in the best possible manner. The pupils consider their teachers to be teachers and fully observe the old limits and ranks of teachership and pupillage. They pay the same respect to their teachers which they pay to their parents ; every student considers service to teachers conducive to increase in knowledge and prosperity !! The following golden incident of the Islamic history is worth remem bering that when Madrasa - e Nizamia was established in Baghdad, and high salaries and stipends were fixed for the teachers and the taught and all sorts of equipments for comfort were provided by the government , the ulema of Bukhara held on this occasion an assembly of mourning for " the decline of knowledge " and expressed sorrow over it that now knowledge would be acquired not for the sake of knowledge but for status and wealth. It is obvious that if this noble purpose of knowledge is not there before a man, why would he , instead of the contemporary ( modern ) sciences , set his face towards the Dar al - Ulum the value of the degree ( sanad ) of which , in the sight of the government , is not more than that of an old almanac ? Once a lieutenant - governor of the United Provinces ( U.P. ), Sir James Muston , while inspecting the Dar al - Ulum , had asked a student from a place far off from Deoband - " What is the purpose of your coming here from such a distant place " ? Spontaneously the student replied - " I have come to read here for this that after returning i may renderi religious service to the people of my native place ". It can be estimated from the syllabus of the Dar al - Ulum that it is far higher than the standard of the government examinations of " Maulavi Fazil " etc. of " the Oriental Languages ". On this account, had the Dar al - Ulum so wished , it could have easily got its sanad recognised by the government equivalent to that of " Maulavi Fazil " but instead of making its sanad a " passport " to service in the government departments , it considered it more apposite that it should try to create in its students such academic ability and merit that the moment the people see its alumnus and its sanad they may believe that it is a thing of value and that whichever task of reli gion this man takes upon himself , he will be able to discharge it with competence and elegance. Special attention has been paid to this thing in the curriculum of the Dar al - Ulum that through it the student, along with the preservation of the spiritual and moral values of Islam , may also acquire ability and expertise in the Islamic arts and sciences so that after going out from here he may be enabled to bear the responsibilities of sincere leadership of the community and may play an important role in the effort for the Islamic call and preaching. It is tried in the Dar al - Ulum to convince students that the purpose of their education is not at all the acquirement of degree or pre paration for government services and offices. On the contrary, it is a purely religious education , and the political and geographical conditions of India demand that such a party that may always be actively busy in elevating the Word of Allah and the revival of the Sunnah should be present amongst the muslims. Thank Allah that the Dar al - Ulum is successful in this educa tional purpose from this institution have come out thousands of such ulema, preachers , authors and leaders who have never avoided this purpose of the Dar al - Ulum. The prophetic Hadith is a commentary and exegesis of the Book of Allah and the second most important source of the Islamic law. The Dar al - Ulum, Deoband , has rendered service to many religious and secular sciences but the teaching of Hadith has been the most conspicuous among them all. The teaching of Hadith in the Dar al - Ulum has been comprehensive in tradition ( riwayat ) and reasoning ( darayat ) and all the CARSON principles of the Islamic law. Here it is tried that the commentary of the men such details of topics related to it may come before the $ 14 Wat DX students that in their future life they may not have to face any difficulty in PERSON the conjunction and reconciliation ( Jama ' wa tatbiq ) and preference and interpretation ( tarjih wa tawil ) of the prophetic hadiths. In this respect the Dar al - Ulum, Deoband , in the teaching of Hadith , commands a singu lar dignity. This is the reason that the Dar al - Hadith of the Dar al - Ulum is held in high esteem and respect by all the religious schools. hadith and hadith and On account of the extensiveness of its educational system, maturity in conformance to the Sunnah , and consummate firmness in arts and sci ences , the Dar al - Uium , Deoband , enjoys the position of a singular institu tion. In the teaching of Hadith particularly it commands an individual style, which special feature of it makes it distinguished over all other educational institutions. In its Dar al - Hadith gather every year three to four hundred students who flock to it from different parts of the world merely for the study of Hadith. Amongst these students of Hadith there is a large number of such people also who are graduates of other institutions and come here only to benefit from the special higher education of the Dar al - Ulum. The Dar al - Ulum, Deoband , leads all the seminaries of India , Pakistan , Bangla Desh , Burma , Afghanistan and other countries and many madrasahs imitate it in the method of education and internal organisation. The Dar al - Ulum has been religiously kept aloof and independent from state help and government interference. The system of education and train ing that the British government had started in India in its regime not only did not have any compatibility with the Islamic ideal and belief but was also very harmful for the Muslims ; had it been accepted, then our present generation not only would have been deprived of Islam but also , unsurprisinigy , would have renegated from and revolted against Islam. The elders of the Dar al - Ulum sensed this danger in time and, despite political slavery , revivified the old system of education to maintain intellectual liberty in order that the students completing this course of study could. begin the world as a true believer.