THE FRAUD OF DARS-E-NIZAMI
Nizamul Mulk Toosi (1018-1092 CE) was the Prime Minister of the Suljuk King Malik Shah, and after him of King Alp Arsalan. He was a Zoroastrian in Muslim disguise (Nihaayat-e-Tareekh-Abbasi, Sheikh-al-Hafiz Yousuf Naishapuri). Toosi opened up the Great Nizamia University in 1067 CE in Baghdad. It was the foremost university of the Islamic world with satellites in Khurasan, Neshapur, and Damascus. Smaller branches existed in Herat, Balkh, Merv and Isphahan in today's Afghanistan and Iran. The centre in Baghdad had as its principal no less than the high criminal of Islam, 'Imam' Abu Hamid Ghazali. Ghazali is the man who grossly insulted the exalted Messenger and his noble companions. For example, he wrote that Hazrat Umar used to break his fast not by eating or drinking but by having sex with three concubines. For more of his diatribe please see The Criminals of Islam by Shabbir Ahmed. Even better, carefully study his renowned Ehya-ul-'Uloom and Kimiya-e-Sa'adat.
THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY:
Since 1067 CE when the Nizamia University was founded, nearly a millennium has gone by. Until this day the syllabus prescribed by these two criminals of Islam is very much enforced throughout the world in "Islamic Madrasahs".
To get a glimpse of the conspiracy of Nizamul Mulk Toosi, just one example should suffice. As the Prime Minister of the Suljuk Empire he advised the two successive kings not to build any defenses for the Empire. He claimed that his students in the madrasahs would work on rosary beads and do wazifas (chanting of verses) and repel the enemy.
Even today, the nonsensical sixteen 'Uloom (sciences) prescribed by Nizamia consume eight years of the life of the Muslim youth rendering them of no use for this world and that World. Ironically, ask any Mullah who has gone through these madrasahs for eight years as to who the founder of the Darse Nizami was, and there is a very good chance he won't have an answer!
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It's tragic misunderstanding in describing Nizamul Mulk as the founder of Dars-e-Nizami. It is remarkable that lack of knowledge about Dars-e-Nizami and its founder Mulla Nizam-ud-Din existed in Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan's time in the nineteenth century, and Shibli Nomani's time in the twentieth century. Evidently, the situation has not changed in the twenty first century. Sir Sayyid and Shibli were critical of Dars-e-Nizami for a variety of reasons.
Mulla Nizam-ud-Din, according to Shibli and Sir Sayyid, was born in Sihala, a small town located 28 miles from the well-known city of Lucknow. He was 14 years old when his family moved to the Farangi Mahal section of Lucknow. Among his notable teachers were Shaikh Ghulam Ali Naqshbandi of Lucknow and Hafiz Aman Allah Benarasi. He died in 1754, forty-one years after the death of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir.
Only six of his publications have survived. One of his sons, Maulana Abdul al-Ali, was an outstanding scholar. Some of Mulla Nizam-ud-Din' s contemporaries were respected for their scholarship, and known throughout India. They are known in academic circles even today: Mulla Muhib Allah Bihari (d. 1707), Mulla Jiwan (d. 1717), Ghulam Ali Azad Bilgrami (d. 1710), and last, but not least, Shah Waliullah of Dehli (1703-1762). Each headed a madrassah of his own.
Mulla Nizam-ud-Din' s reputation, however, is based upon the syllabus, Dars-e-Nizami, which he created. Shibli pointed out that Mulla Nizam-ud-Din included in the syllabus several books authored by Indian ulema and not a single book of his own.
Sir Sayyid and Shibli have published the details of this syllabus, indicating the bibliography for each discipline:
1) Sarf (declension and conjugation) ,
2) Nahv (grammar and syntax),
3)Mantiq (logic),
4) Hikmat (philosophy) ,
5) Riadi (mathematics) ,
6) Balaghat (rhetoric),
7) Fiqh (jurisprudence) ,
8) Usul al Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence) ,
9) Kalam (scholastic theology),
10) Tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an),
11) Hadith (traditions) ,
12) Tib (medicine), and
13) Musiqi (music) -- subsequently discarded.
This syllabus was adopted by madaris all over India. Each institution specialised in one particular discipline of its own expertise. Shah Walliullah's school in Delhi specialized in Hadith, and Tafsir; the Farangi Mahal school of Lucknow excelled in jurisprudence, and the Sialkot school specialised in grammar. It may be noted that students, after graduating from high school classes of the madaris, started to study Dars-e-Nizami, and completed it in four years. At the high school level, education was given in Persian and Urdu; in the high level classes the Nizami texts were in Arabic.
Dars-e-Nizami was not invented by Mulla Nizam-ud-Din out of nowhere. Actually, he systemised the syllabi, which had been used by the scholars during the previous centuries. This system had already become obsolete by the time Emperor Aurangzeb rose to power.
More than a century later, Sir Sayyid and Shibli (despite differences on other issues) agreed on one point: the need to reform the Dars-e-Nizami, and to align it with the demands of the modern age.
Some of the madaris in Pakistan/India are outstanding institutes of higher Islamic learning, and some are not. Dars-e-Nizami is taught in only a small number of madaris, because qualified ulema are not available to teach Dars-e-Nizami.
The madaris also have certain responsibilities toward the student's future and the needs of Pakistan. They should combine modern sciences and engineering in their programs of education to produce modern scientists, engineers and computer scientists. Through modern education, India and China are now on the threshold of prosperity and international eminence. Sadly, Pakistan neglected education for 50 years, and the negative consequences are now visible to the naked eye.
Mulla Nizam-ud-Din, according to Shibli and Sir Sayyid, was born in Sihala, a small town located 28 miles from the well-known city of Lucknow. He was 14 years old when his family moved to the Farangi Mahal section of Lucknow. Among his notable teachers were Shaikh Ghulam Ali Naqshbandi of Lucknow and Hafiz Aman Allah Benarasi. He died in 1754, forty-one years after the death of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir.
Only six of his publications have survived. One of his sons, Maulana Abdul al-Ali, was an outstanding scholar. Some of Mulla Nizam-ud-Din' s contemporaries were respected for their scholarship, and known throughout India. They are known in academic circles even today: Mulla Muhib Allah Bihari (d. 1707), Mulla Jiwan (d. 1717), Ghulam Ali Azad Bilgrami (d. 1710), and last, but not least, Shah Waliullah of Dehli (1703-1762). Each headed a madrassah of his own.
Mulla Nizam-ud-Din' s reputation, however, is based upon the syllabus, Dars-e-Nizami, which he created. Shibli pointed out that Mulla Nizam-ud-Din included in the syllabus several books authored by Indian ulema and not a single book of his own.
Sir Sayyid and Shibli have published the details of this syllabus, indicating the bibliography for each discipline:
1) Sarf (declension and conjugation) ,
2) Nahv (grammar and syntax),
3)Mantiq (logic),
4) Hikmat (philosophy) ,
5) Riadi (mathematics) ,
6) Balaghat (rhetoric),
7) Fiqh (jurisprudence) ,
8) Usul al Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence) ,
9) Kalam (scholastic theology),
10) Tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an),
11) Hadith (traditions) ,
12) Tib (medicine), and
13) Musiqi (music) -- subsequently discarded.
This syllabus was adopted by madaris all over India. Each institution specialised in one particular discipline of its own expertise. Shah Walliullah's school in Delhi specialized in Hadith, and Tafsir; the Farangi Mahal school of Lucknow excelled in jurisprudence, and the Sialkot school specialised in grammar. It may be noted that students, after graduating from high school classes of the madaris, started to study Dars-e-Nizami, and completed it in four years. At the high school level, education was given in Persian and Urdu; in the high level classes the Nizami texts were in Arabic.
Dars-e-Nizami was not invented by Mulla Nizam-ud-Din out of nowhere. Actually, he systemised the syllabi, which had been used by the scholars during the previous centuries. This system had already become obsolete by the time Emperor Aurangzeb rose to power.
More than a century later, Sir Sayyid and Shibli (despite differences on other issues) agreed on one point: the need to reform the Dars-e-Nizami, and to align it with the demands of the modern age.
Some of the madaris in Pakistan/India are outstanding institutes of higher Islamic learning, and some are not. Dars-e-Nizami is taught in only a small number of madaris, because qualified ulema are not available to teach Dars-e-Nizami.
The madaris also have certain responsibilities toward the student's future and the needs of Pakistan. They should combine modern sciences and engineering in their programs of education to produce modern scientists, engineers and computer scientists. Through modern education, India and China are now on the threshold of prosperity and international eminence. Sadly, Pakistan neglected education for 50 years, and the negative consequences are now visible to the naked eye.