URDU, ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE DARUL-ULOOM DARS-E-NIZAAMI
Displaying the inferiority which grips his brains, the moron says: “So, even in North America, many madrasas that have come up insist on keeping Urdu, rather than English, as the medium of instruction, although few young North American Muslims know Urdu, their language now being English. As if Urdu has some sanctity attached to it!”
Expunging the wonderful Urdu Language from the Madaaris is indeed a tremendous error – a disaster. Undoubtedly, the Urdu language has become Islamicized. It is now a sacred language.
It is the language of our Ulama and Auliya. It is part of our heritage. It may not be abandoned in favour of English – the language of savages and barbarians. The holy and Islamic ethos of the Madrasah will be utterly extinguished if Urdu is replaced with the language of the arch-enemies of Islam. Its script resembles the Qur’aanic script in almost exactitude.
It is ludicrous to teach Hadith, Tafseer and Fiqh through the medium of English, a language totally bereft of any spirituality.
It is our supplication that the Madrasahs in North America should resolutely retain the Urdu language and not succumb to pressure of morons and modernists who argue in favour of the language of those who are the leaders in immorality.
Even a language has its peculiarities and attributes which have effects on people. People of English by nature are generally arrogant, shameless and lewd. Urdu is a language which exudes humility and spirituality.
Furthermore, it is an easy language to learn, and there is a vast treasure of Islamic literature available in Urdu.
Urdu is our link with our Ulama of India and Pakistan where the fountains of true Ilm are still to be found. True Ilm no longer exists in other countries.
Over the centuries Ilm-e-Deen has travelled around the Muslim world, making different countries its headquarters. Since the last 150 years or so, India had become the headquarters of Deeni Ilm. At least the Zaahiri Ilm of the Deen is still available at the Madaaris of India and Pakistan. It is nowhere else available in this era.
Almost all institutions in other countries cater for a hybridized concoction of knowledge which is wholly inadequate for the production of true Ulama.
Far from eliminating Urdu, there should be greater effort to teach and retain this sacred language. After Arabic, there is no other language which enjoys the sanctity of Urdu.
Furthermore, since the students in North America are already versed in English, what is the need to introduce English? And, what is the harm in learning an additional, wonderful, spiritual language?
(Extracted from: Dars-e-Nizaami and the Call of the Morons)