cricketplaya

The day of Thursday, 15th Muharram, A.H. 1283 (May 30, 1866), was that blessed and auspicious day in the Islamic history of India when the foundation stone for the renaissance of Islamic sciences was laid in the land of Deoband. Seeing the simple and ordinary manner in which it had been started, it was difficult to visualize and decide that a Madrasah beginning so humbly, with utter lack of equipment's, was destined to become the center, within a couple of years, of the Islamic sciences in Asia.Accordingly, before long, students desirous of studying the Holy Book and the Sunnah, the Shari'ah and the Tariqah (the spiritual path), began to flock here in droves from this sub continent as well as from neighboring and distant countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Bukhara and Samarqand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and the far off regions of the continent of Africa, and within a short-time the radiant rays of knowledge and wisdom illumined the heart and mind of the Muslims of the continent of Asia with the light of faith (Iman) and Islamic culture.

you can read more on their website: http://darululoom-deoband.com/english/index.htm

K337

n where is deoband??

cricketplaya

thanks for fixing. Deoband is in India.

K337

i am sorry u went offline otherwise i wud have asked u to do it urself

nvm its pretty big mashallah

cricketplaya

yes mashAllah, it is like the Harvard of the Islamic world aside from Al-Azhar in Cairo.

proudpakistani

Nice pictures. The Deoband school was established by Maulana Qasim Nanotwi, who is the great great grandfather of the Qasmi family in Pakistan. It produced many great Ulema and maulana Mohammad Ilyas who later started the Tableghi Jamat was also a graduate of this same school.