Daruddawah: ( Initial stages)
First of all the Daruddawah Association had established a school in 1982 named “Madarsa Dawatul Islam” to educate the children including boys and girls. The said Madarsa was running at primary level, but it has been gradually upgraded and till now it is running at joiner high school level. In 1984 a Jama Masjid adjoining the Madarsa was laid its foundation on the hand of Moulana Abdul Waheed Al-salfi, Gen. Secretary of Jamia Salfia, Banaras, Moulana Mukhtar Ahmad Nadwi and other prominent Ulema of Ummah. In 1999 the executive council of association decided to establish a department of Arabic for boy and girls, to implement this decision, the Department of Tahfiz Al-Quran has been framed out.
1. Jamiah Abi Hurairah Al-Islamiah
Madarsa Dawatul Islam and its educational activities were expended by the members of association changing its old name by “Jami Abu Hurairah Al- Islamia". The educational activities now became full-fledged and following its expansion there are several departments running under the Jamia. The little introductions about them are under lines:-
Mahad Abi Baker (RZ) litahfiz Al Quran (Memorization of Holy Quran): -
It is very clear that the service of Holy Quran is a highly inviolable and great religious duty. The department was established under the guidance of Daruddawah in 1999 aiming to largely develop the affection of Ummah in favor of Quran. The department has been active to achieve its great object since its inception and its students use to participate in several competing programs organized at global level and obtained distinction success.
2. Primary Department: - Primary department was formed since the foundation day of Daruddawah. The department continued to serve the Muslim’s society. So thousands of students including boys and girls have been educated and availed by this institution. While there is facility of separate section of education for both boys and girls to avoid them any pity habit. It is worth-mentioning that the Jamia provides a comfortable and well- equipped bus service and a ten sitter Bolero Jeep to carry its girls and boys students.
3. Faculty of Hadith & Islamic Education for boys: - The department has full flagged system for education till Fazilat certificate. During this course several kinds of subjects like Tafsir e Quran, Principals of Tafsir, Hadith, Principals of Hadith, Fiqah and its principals, Faiths, Nahw and Sarf (Syntax & Morphology), Sirat (Biography), History, Urooz and Blaghat (Prosody and Rhetoric), Religions, Geography, Urdu ,Hindi and English etc. are taught.
4. Islamic College for Girls: - The department is dedicated to teach Girls Fazilat course and all subjects that are taught for boys learnt by Girls. Beside that they are being trained in tailoring, Embroidery, Weaving and other housekeeping and vocational courses.
5. Darul Ifta: - Jamia has set up this department and, it is one of the most significant departments of Jamia which created to guide the people all across the world. The department issues Fatwas and Islamic solutions of various problems accordance to the Quran and Hadith. Matured and well educated Muftiyan e Kiram reply the questions written to Jamia Darul Ifta. Till now hundreds of Fatwas have been issued regarding several topics of Islamic issues such as Parts of Islam, Selling and Purchasing, Nikah and Tlaq (Marriage & Divorce), Waqaf and Miras (Dedicated and legacy) etc. these fatwas bear critical and concrete testimonies and solid proofs would be published in days to come Insha’Allah.
6. Department of Preaching and Propagation: - It is great responsibility for all of us as a Muslims to spread the massages of Islamic guidance and its great preach from grass-root to universe level. Alhamdulillah there is several Mosques at the Dar Al Dawa areas wherein the Islamic preach being carried out by great and authentic speeches delivered prior to the Juma’s Salah as well as its teachers participate in several regional religious programs where they use to guide people to bring them on right track and counsel them in the light of Quran and Hadith on the occasion of grief and happiness. Besides that, various Islamic books are distributed time to time for silent but affective Islamic propagation.
7. Department of Printing and Publishing: - The publishing of Islamic and other knowledgeable books is one of the important objectives of the Association. The said institute has published various books on different vital Islamic topics. The catalogs could be seen at the end of introduction outlet.
8. Dr. (Shaikh) Abdurrahman bin Abdul-Jabbar Al-Farewai central library: - Alhamdulillah, Jamia has a huge and worthy library in which a lot of books are available. The total numbers of varied topic books acceded to ten thousands including Hadith and other Islamic sciences which have important references and resources. Beside that there is computer facility in the library, so that the student could avail it by using CDs and internet.
Other Departments: -
- Computer Training Center: - It is impossible to deny the importance of computer and internet in this time. This kind of latest technologies having involved in day to day life and its requirements. So the students of Madarsa have to be trained by this kind of technologies. Jamia has realized this fact and started running a computer center wherein students are gaining computer education under an expert teacher.
- Institute of Languages & Translation: - It is an undeniable fact that the responsibility of propagation and representation of Islamic thoughts in current time not be succeed without being expert in English and Hindi languages, beside the Urdu and Arabic. Jamia is bound to create Islamic preachers in all of these four languages. This requires students to be taught by latest technologies of learning languages.
Jamia also realized this need of time and established an institution named “Institute of Languages & Translation”. Insha’Allah, some experts would begin to serve the interested students by nearest future.