New-age Malad madrassa produces clerics who clear SSC, go on to jobs

MUMBAI: It has been virtually a month since the SSC 2018 effects however Jamia Tajweedul Quran, a madrassa at Malvani, a quiet corner in Malad (West), remains to be celebrating the luck of its six students.

This is first madrassa within the town to provide hafizs or clerics who've memorized the Quran in addition to cleared their SSC exam. So the six hafizs this year—Shaikh Mohammed Yusuf Aijaz Ali, Sheikh Mohammed Shahid, Sheikh Mohammed Kalimullah, Sheikh Mohammed Owais, Siddiqui Waqar Ahmed and Sheikh Mohammed Sabir—are now searching for admission into junior faculties.

The mandate of most madrassas in India is to provide clerics. Unfortunately, those maulvis rarely get absorbed within the mainstream process marketplace.

“I think it's unfair to the skill of the kids who memorize the Quran however aren't inspired to sign up for non-religious classes. A hafiz who has additionally been skilled within the secular flow shall be more confident to face the world,” says businessman Syed Ali, popularly referred to as Ali Bhai.

Ali Bhai runs Madrassa Jamia Tajweedul Quran and Noor Meher Urdu School from the Malvani bungalow he donated to the Noor Meher Charitable Trust, named after his mother. The madrassa was established in 2001 and the primary batch of hafizs cleared the board exam in 2013. “We got inspired when in the very first batch, all 13 hafizs cleared the board exam and went on to get trained as execs.”

Twin brothers Mohammed Sahil Ansari and Mohammed Rahil Ansari were within the 2013 batch. While Sahil has accomplished his BSc (statistics), Rahil has graduated in laptop engineering. “Perhaps shall we by no means have joined those classes however for Ali Bhai’s initiative which provided us training both in deen (faith) and duniya (worldly) under the similar roof,” says Sahil, as Rahil nods. Their father is a tailor.

Most of the lads who join the madrassa and the varsity listed below are first generation inexperienced persons. Ansari Imtiyaz cleared the board exam in 2016 and is now doing his BCom. His father is physically challenged and doesn’t work while his elder brother is a muezzin. “I aspire to develop into a chartered accountant,” says Imtiyaz.


Most of the lads who come listed below are unlettered. The three-storey development functions dually as a college (8am to midday) and a madrassa (2pm to 5.1 pm). The students perform a little more finding out within the evening with homework and through revising the Quranic verses they've memorized all over the day. By the time they develop into hafizs, they are additionally ready to appear for SSC.


Several group leaders applaud this experiment. “This module must be adopted through each madrassa. After becoming hafizs and maulvis, most of them can't do anything, with the exception of develop into teachers, preachers and imams. They must be qualified sufficient to seek a occupation past the world of clergy,” says senior group chief Ghulam Peshimam.


Ali Bhai, who shuttles between India and the US, displays his “baby’ 24/7, through CCTV cameras.


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