In the name of Allah the most beneficent and the most merciful

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO

Jamia Islamia Madinatul Uloom

Madina Market, Memari, Purba Bardhaman, (W.B.), India

Registered under Indian Trust Registration Act & Foreign Contribution Regulation Act

 (Recognised by: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,U.P., Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad & National Institute of Open Schooling, New Delhi)

Glorious 55 Years:

Jamia Islamia Madinatul Uloom, unique in its character in Eastern India, is one of the largest Madrasahs established in the year 1968 A.D. It is of college-level from the post primary classes. It has celebrated its Golden Jubilee in the year 2018 with grandeur and magnificence inviting lumious figures from different religions and personalities from various school of thought. It was attended by the esteemed guests from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Malaysia etc. Renowned Ulama of the country did grace the occasion with their splendour presence.

Residential students' strength of the institute is about 1350. Teaching Staff at present stands to 57 and there are 35 non-teaching staff. Annual expense of the institution is approximately Rs. Two Crores (INR) = 2,41,000 (US$); due to rising market price it may further increase. Number of students are increasing every year and the development work is a continuous process which needs charity, lillah, zakat. fitra and donation.

Curriculum & Students:

Curriculum is up to Daura-E-Hadith starting from post primary level including all related courses of Hafiz, Quari, Maulana, Mufti and Adeeb-e-Kamil. Computer Training and other most demanding latest educational facilities are available in the campus. Jamia provides free teaching along with free food and lodging including breakfast to all the 1350 students, teachers, staff, their family members and visitors.

Philanthropic Activities:

Besides education, Jamia is also sincerely involved in many social activities for the upliftment of the poor people irrespective of caste, creed & colour. We are rendering relief and Charitable Clinic services to the poor people of the villagers under the welfare program of Jamia. In spite of our financial restrain and limitations we could, by the grace of Allah swt., reach out to the flood and storm stricken people with necessary relief materials like tarpaulin, plastic sheets, dry food, baby food and medicines along with doctors and volunteers to help the destitute people. Our relief work, help and assistance earned the praise and admiration of the public as well as of the administration.

The Jamia has a long 25 years’ history of organizing and holding Blood Donation Camp, Free Eye Operation Camp and Health Checkup Camps regularly. Distribution of the blanket, stipend to the poor students, specially to the orphans & blind pupils and financial help for the marriage of the poor girls are also our regular program.

We have been providing drinking water facilities by installing hand pump/tube well in remote villages in backward and minority concentrated districts of West Bengal. Jamia has also provided more than five hundred toilets in villages for the better sanitation system in the remote area. These service Jamia has been rendering since 1997.

Another aspects of development program is self employment project. Under this program Jamia has already provided more than 250 numbers of van rickshaws to the rural youths. Jamia also helps the widows and needy women of the rural area by providing them financial assistance to start business like small poultry farm and shops, vegetables selling etc. All these are done from the fund collected from the generous and kind people.

Role of Donation & Charity:

All these activities run on donations and contributions of generous persons like you with kind heart and we urge you to donate for the benefit of the poor people. We seek your financial help and cooperation for further development and to do something for the humanity as far as possible in the path of Allah and His Rasool Muhammad (pbuh).

SOME SPECIAL COURSES AND FEATURES OF THE JAMIA

1. Affiliation

a.       Jamia has received prestigious affiliation from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its courses and certificates are accredited by the Aligarh Muslim University. Students who have passed the Dawra-e- Hadeeth (Bukhari Sharif level) through the conventional 11 years' course are eligible for admission to the under graduate (B.A.) courses at the Aligarh Musilm University (Arts faculty). Besides, those who have completed the special 6 years' course of A'limiyat from this Jamia are eligible for admission into the post graduate (M.A.) course of Arabic & Islamic Theology department at the Aligarh Muslim University.

b.       Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Telengana, India has included the name of this Jamia as a recognised Institution where students passed from this Jamia can take admission in under graduate courses as well as in some diploma courses (like Journalism & Mass Communication to etc.) Which promotes higher education to our students.

c.       This Jamia is accredited by the N.I.O.S. - National Institute of Open Schooling which is an autonomous body under Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. New Delhi.      

2. A'limiyat courses:

a)       Jamia offers 11 years' A'limiyat course (5th standard to Degree level) which is well known and is followed in such seminaries of the country.

b)      Another special course is available which offers 6 years' A'limiyat Certificate to those students who have completed Higher Secondary or +2 level in Govt. schools. They are eligible to avail this special course's facility to complete A'limiyat in only 6 years. Graduates and Master degree holders are also eligible for admission to this special 6 years’ course of A'limiyat.

3. The Syllabus and Curriculum of the A'limiyat Courses:

The syllabus and curriculum of the A'limiyat courses include vernacular, English, Mathematics, Science and Social Science along with the Islamic and conventional subjects like Al-Quran, Tafseer, Al-hadeeth, Seerat, Fiqh, Aqaid, Arabic and Urdu literature, Ifta' (Islamic Jurisprudence), Tajweed, Takmeel etc.

Students are taught communicative English and basic computer courses to cope with the changing world. Translating Arabic language to English & vernacular, and English language to vernacular and Arabic is a part of the syllabus and curriculum till the +2 level, which they learn with utmost interest aiming to the 'Dawah' and publication work for the community.

4. Cultural Program (Anjuman), Da'wah & Publications:

a)       Jamia Students regularly take part in the weekly cultural program on every Friday to make their eloquence stronger and to make their power of debate and discussion enriched with various informations. Experienced and learned teachers guide them throughout the whole program.

They own a separate library with more than 1000 books and periodicals which is run and controlled by the senior students. This is called 'Anjuman Library' which becomes operational once in a week and teachers let them free to run the library and enjoy leadership.

b)      Aiming to the Da'wah, a noble task, they participate in debates, quiz, extempore etc. in the light of the Quran and Sunnah under the guidance of the learned teachers. Students are divided into groups and competitions are held every month followed by a grand annual competition at the end of the academic session. Praise, prizes and admirations encourage them to continue such activities year after year.

c)       Jamia has been encouraging its professors, teachers and students to keep them engaged in writing article, feature, report, review etc. in various languages. Three periodicals are regularly published from the Jamia, namely:

i) Mashair al Ummah (Magazine in Arabic)

ii) Sada-e-Madinatul Uloom (Magazine in Urdu)

iii) Mullyabodh (Magazine in Bengali Language)

iv) In addition to that three wall magazines are regularly walled and posted with rich articles and features written by the teachers, and students. These are 1) Al- Uswah-in Arabic, 2) Payam-e-Haq-in Urdu and 3) Upalabdhi-in Bengali.

5. Jamia Library (Maktabah 'Al-Haadee')

Jamia Library is really a treasure trove of Islamic Knowledge enriched with various books, periodicals and manuscripts along with internet facilities for the readers. Students and scholars flourish indulging themselves in this beautiful library day and night without any kind of interruption. The library has about 9 (nine) thousand books. thousands of periodicals and a competent Librarian. Scholars and knowledge seekers come to this enriched library to go through the voluminous books on tafseer, tarjamah, seerat un-Nabi & hadeeth (pbuh), usool-e-hadeeth, fiqh, Aquaid, usool-e-fiqh, adab, tadreebul Muallimeen, tajweed, tareekh-e-Islam, malfoozaat etc. One section has books on English & Bengali literature, life of great men religious and political personalities, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus etc. This unique but small library contains various imported books from Turky, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Indonesia, USA. UK etc. These books are rare in collection but a lure to the scholars of the concerned fields.

6. Hifzul-Quran Plus course: General courses for Hafiz-e-Quran students:

It is a general practice in the states of eastern India that the youngsters should go for Hifz-ul-Quran and unlike other states they start their Hifz at the age of 10 or 11. It generally takes 3 to 4 years to complete the Hifz-ul-Quran courses and later on at the age of 13 or 14 most of those Huffaz go for very small business, or tailoring or jori/embroidery work etc. Some of them get admitted in Madrasahs for A'limiyat course. We have taken it with great importance.

Firstly, they will be taken to this 2yr secondary course (10th level) through an admission test. The beginning year starts with basic English, Mathematics & Vernaculars and after completing the 'foundation course' they go for 'bridge course' and in the last quarter of their first year they get ready for admission into class X (10th level).

Hence in next year students are sent to Mamoon National School, a govt. recognised School in the same campus, where they sit with other regular students in the same classroom on the same benches. Now students from two streams are mixed and compete each other to clear the Board Examination for 10th level. Generally they secure 75%-90% marks in the Board Exams and equally fight the mainstream students. Now they have options for Science or Humanities. We encourage them for Science stream because it is the only way to go for Medical, Para Medical or Engineering/ Diploma Engineering courses. But those, who opt for humanities are also free to get admission into Special 6 years, course of A'limiyat after passing +2 or higher secondary/inter level. And later, after A'limiyat they have nice options to go to Aligarh Muslim University for any courses in Arts Faculty or Humanities. Others who have opt for Science stream, they generally go for Engineering and a few for Medical (MBBS/BDS) Courses. It has become a golden opportunity for the Huffaz-e-Quran of the Eastern region of the Country.

7. Blind Section - Zohra Blind School:

They are no more neglected. They are more active than the sighted persons. They don't seek help from others to walk around the campus or to go the Jame Masjid at night or at the dawn. They are the blind boys of this Jamia some 25 students who learn Al-Quran through Braille system. Not only Arabic language, they learn English, Mathematics and Bengali (Vernacular) through the world's famous Braille system which was invented by Mr. Louis Brallie of France, Braille books are supplied to us free of cost by generous people and charitable organizations like (a) Madrassa-Al-Noor KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (b) Deeniyat Educational & Charitable Trust, Mumbai (c) Aligarh Muslim University, India (d) R.K. Mission (e) Al-Fitrah Foundation, Capetown, South Africa (f) Syed Abul Quasem Shamsuddin, UK etc. Blind students get free education, food and hostel facilities from the Jamia and their dresses, medicines and pocket money for personal expenses are also given from the Jamia Zakat fund regularly.

8. Shifa Khana/First Aid & Charitable Clinic :

It is a small venture of the Jamia where students get free bed and Medicine when they are sick or bed ridden due to common diseases of a tropical area. Some renowned physicians (Medicine, Orthopedic, Ophthalmology. Dentistry etc.) attend the Clinic as and when required. Some of them attend the clinic regularly once or twice in a fortnight.

9. Jamé Masjid (Grand Masjid : Masjid Muhammad):

A grand Masjid inside the campus is a centre of attraction in the area for salah and Eid prayers. This is the second biggest Masjid of the state which has capacity of 5000 musallis. A white colour beautiful and high minerate is symbolising the Tawheed of Allah swt and the inside view with big chandeliers attract people from far places for salah specially Friday prayers.

We pray to Allah swt for the donors and well wishers for their well being and success, peace and prosperity, here and here after. Aameen.