The Necessity of Teaching Science & Technology in our Madaris: Science & Sectarianism

 

In the name of Allah the most Beneficent and Merciful.

Science & Sectarianism

Sectarianism is a big issue in Pakistan, and I don’t want to go into its negative ramifications, we are all aware of it. I, along with few other people, started a yearlong software development course for ulema (graduates of our seminaries) in 2017. Details of this course are available at www.isdp.info  During these years I became acquainted with hundreds of ulema from all over Pakistan belonging to different sects and madaris (seminaries). The program requires a certain level of English and math. My initial presumption was that since these ulema deal with complex calculations involving laws of inheritance they will have the required math skills necessary for our program. But I was disappointed to find out that a good portion of them could not calculate the average of the two numbers.

Alaqsa mosque caught fire.

Alaqsa mosque survived a fire almost at the same time that the world was fixated on Notre Dame cathedral ( https://www.newsweek.com/notre-dame-fire-aqsa-mosque-1397259?amp=1 ) fire. Forget about international news media, this was not reported by majority of our own news media, why? Because majority of our news media is a “For Sale” item. What people don't realize is that most likely the Alaqsa fire was a test run by Zionists to see the reaction of Muslim ummah. And the result of the test run, to the satisfaction of Zionists, is that the Muslim ummah is not bothered about Alaqsa and what happens to her. As I have written in my previous article ( http://nadeemchaudhry.blogspot.com/2019/04/jordan-next-country-to-get-american.html ) Netanyahu is hell bent on rebuilding the third temple and for that Alaqsa mosque has to be destroyed. Some people may think it is stretching it too much but I think that the suspected Israeli pilot in the Indian attack on Pakistan earlier this year is related to this broader scheme. Zionists and RSS minded Hindus collaborated but Allah helped and PAF was able to stop the aggression. Now they will try the financial battle and for that they have sent Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, a known economic hitman as our next finance minister. When the economic situation will become terrible than who will care if Alaqsa burns to ground or not.

 

P.S: If you don’t know who is an economic hitman then watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0

Merging of Islamic and Pakistan Studies in Institutions of Higher Learning in Pakistan

A move is afoot in all institutes of higher learning to merge Islamic and Pakistan Studies into one course. Currently these two are being taught as two separate courses each being a 3 credit hour course. In the merged scenario there will be one 3 credit hour course. There are several reasons given for this move, I will present some of those reasons that I came across during my discussions with faculty members from different institutes of higher learning. But before I do that I would like to present a possible background/explanation that I think is the driving factor behind this move.