Our Madresas
There was a news in The Indian Express: Three boys chained in Madresa. Father and Teacher held. The news is from Bengluru. Police informed that the boys were not interested in studies and would play truant at the smallest opportunity. The efforts of the father to make the children sit in class always ended up being futile. He sought the help of the teacher and they decided to tie up the boys in the Madresa to scare them into attending class.. The teacher and the father have been booked under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act , 2015. The problem of the educational system in Madresas was nicely put by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in his address on 22 February 1947. The speech is in chaste Urdu . I will try to say in English what he said. Azad said this education is not fit for the modern times because it reflects the decline of the Muslims. In the last 500 years the time has moved very fast but you were sitting in the Madresa which were established according to the needs of that tim...