Role of Education

However, if evolution is the option, Education plays crucial role. It is the heart and soul of democracy. That is exactly the reason why Islam enjoins upon all men and women to educate them even if they have to travel to far flung places in search of knowledge. A Democratic Islamic Welfare State creates conditions and provides facilities to achieve hundred percent literacy for the nation. Curriculum is the main vehicle that spreads right kind of education laying rational emphasis on religious, temporal, professional, technological, scientific and general education in all educational institutions up to the higher secondary level. Thereafter, students adopt specialized streams such as medicine, engineering, higher religious learning etc. The citizens of the state acquire sufficient background knowledge of religious as well as temporal subjects. This gives uniformity to the national educational process. The distinction between religious schools and non-religious institutions thus becomes irrelevant. Education of religious scholars is not considered complete unless they have also studied non-religious subjects. Without the background of these subjects it is just not possible for them to interpret Islam and teach the holy Quran in the modem world. This arrangement promotes desired religious enlightenment and enables them to shed narrow-mindedness, fanaticism and sectarianism. Quaide-Azam’s definition of an Islamic State may be seen in this context. He said, “It depoliticizes religion without secularizing the society. No political party establishes its student wing in colleges and universities. Teachers hold a status higher than any other equivalent functionary of the government and equal to the members of the judiciary. The state, as such, can legitimately claim to be called Islamic, since it caters for the education of each one of its citizens in pursuance of Quranic commandments and sayings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).Given that the Islamic democracy has become the political system of the country, how the target of hundred percent education can be achieved in view of the woeful paucity of resources. which has been cited by the ruling feudal juntas for keeping three fourth of the population uneducated during the last many decades and intend to keep them uneducated for the coming many decades.