Wali Rahmani is misguiding the Muslims in the matter of Central Madrasa Board: Imam Council

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07 Oct 2009, NewAgeIslam.Com

Wali Rahmani is misguiding the Muslims in the matter of Central Madrasa Board: Imam Council

The creation of a Madrasa board is an old demand of Muslims that is now being deliberately obfuscated and turned into a controversy – Dr khawja Ikram Let Maulana Wali Rahmani agitate against the Board in Bihar where 3,000 madrasas are affiliated with it: Maulana Khushtar Noorani Do not politicise this issue – Mohammad Adeeb, M P Board increases the possibility of government interference in Islamic education: Prof. Haleem Khan The government wants to interfere in Muslim affairs in the name of madrasa modernisation: Maulana Usman Ghani The government is making empty noises, to entertain itself seeing Muslims making a fool of themselves fight among over the issue. Why doesn't it establish the Board first? The question of affiliation will arise only later: Qari Mohammad Mian Mazhari. -- Hindustan Express (News Bureau), Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami URL: http://newageislam.net/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1864 -------   Maulana Wali Rahmani is misguiding the Muslim Community on the issue of formation of Central Madrasa Board: Imam Council   The Formation of Central Madrasa Board is an age-old demand of Muslims of the country. The issue is deliberately being obfuscated, says Dr Khwaja Akram  Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami New Delhi: 2 Oct. Hindustan Express (News Bureau): A like-minded group of people like Wali Rahmani are misguiding Muslims on the issue of establishment of a Central Madrasa Board. They are trying to drag an age-old demand of Muslims into a controversy and also trying to frighten innocent people by imaginary dangers looming ahead. By this malicious act, the character and the nature of madrasas will become suspicious and mystifying. This opinion is expressed by an eminent member of Muslim scholars' group in reaction to the statement of Maulana Wali Rahmani, Sajjada Nashin of Khanqah Rahmani, Munger and the organizer of Madrasa Modernization Committee of central government that "the formation of Central Madrasa Board is no panacea for any disease; this idea is the brain-child of Mr. L.K.Advani".   Another group of scholars and intellectuals is supporting the idea. Maulana Maqsoodul Hassan Qasmi and Maulana Mahmoodul Hassan Nadvi, the president and the vice-president of Imam Council of India respectively, have asserted in a joint statement without naming anyone: "Imam Council condemns the blind opposition of Central Madrasa Board expressed by an eminent Islamic scholar in an interview to a newspaper". This interview was published in the 30th Sep.2009 edition of Hindustan Express. The leaders of Imam Council are trying to save the innocent Muslims of India from being betrayed by some selfish people. They are always obedient to serve for their personal gains, in exchange of the membership in different committees or to get a ticket to parliament. They have also questioned him for being the chairman of the Madrasa Modernization Committee of central government formed by Mr. Arjun Singh. Why is he still continuing on the post if the Central Madrasa Board is of no use?   They further said that the scholars of international level, who stay in five-star hotels and fly by air, cannot realize the atrocities inflicted on the poor and hapless teachers by the administrators of madrasas. These people are talking rubbish over the idea of establishing Central Madrasa Board because they are afraid of losing their control and possession of the madrasas. They must know, no educational board, it may be CBSE, interferes in the administrative functioning of educational institutions. The attached institutions, of course, have to abide by the terms and conditions of the board. They also asserted that the establishing of Central Madrasa Board is an important necessity of the present time. But it should be an autonomous body like UGC and other boards. The control and governing power should be in the hands of the Muslim scholars and educationists.   Maulana Khushtar Noorani, the editor of Islamic magazine "Jam-e-Noor" published from New Delhi, has advised Maulana Wali Rahmani to express his annoyance by commencing an agitation in Bihar, where more than 3000 (Three thousand) madrasas of the board are running. He said it is a baseless allegation that this idea is the brain-child of Mr. L.K. Advani. There is no proof of any such report which might have been submitted in NDA regime. This is also a false accusation that the government had suggested it. This proposal was initiated from the Muslims' side and forwarded by the then minister of state for human resources and development Mr Ashraf Ali Fatmi. Later on, this proposal was hijacked by Mr Arjun Singh and he involved the Mullahs of Congress like Maulana Wali Rahmani to delay the proposal by converting it into a controversy. Had the government been honest, the Central Madrasa Board could have been silently formed without any hue or cry or controversy.   Prof. Dr. Khwaja Akram, the associate professor of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, has rightly observed; the idea of Central Madrasa Board is a long-pending demand of the Muslims of the country – that is intentionally being dragged into a controversy. Mohammad Adeeb, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) has expressed his views that he would oppose the establishing of Central Madrasa Board in the forthcoming meeting of the Muslim Members of Parliament being called by the central minister of human resources and development Mr Kapil Sibbal. He refused to share the draft of the bill with the media at present that is sent to the Muslim Members of Parliament. But he will oppose the wrong methodology to be adopted; it should not be politicicised and the opinion of the Islamic scholars should be given preference.   Now the question arises; which scholars' opinion should be preferred: The opinion of popular political clerics like Maulana Wali Rahmani on the one hand or the viewpoint of Maulana Maqsoodul Hassan Qasmi, Maulana Shahul Hameed Malbari, Maulana Khushtar Noorani and Dr Khwaja Akram on the other? Maulana Shahul Hameed Malbari, Director of Islamic educational board of India, says: "We of course, have some objection over some of the points in the draft of the bill, but we can not ignore the fact – that Central Madrasa Board is the long-pending demand of the Muslims, also it is the urgent need of the time. Maulana Usman Ghani Bapu of Ameen-e-Shariat Educational Trust (Gujrat) feels that the government wants to interfere in the functioning of the madrasas in the name of modernization and reformation. The same opinion is expressed by Prof. Haleem Khan, Ex Chairman Madhya Pradesh Madrasa Board.   Qari Mian Mazhari asserted that the government is only making sounds like empty vessels; they are not honest in their intention. First, the government should present the bill and establish a Central Madrasa Board, and then the matter of affiliation with the board will come into discussion; whether we will or we will not totally depend upon the situation prevailing after the establishment of the Central Madrasa Board. The people who are creating ruckus are absolutely wrong, moreover, the politics being played by the government is also of the worst kind and deplorable. The government has involved the Muslims in a never-ending fight for its entertainment. Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami URL: http://newageislam.net/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1864