Press Release
Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan Issues Policy Paper on Education Only the Khilafah will Ensure World Class Education

Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan has issued a Publicized Policy Position (PPP) regarding the ineffective and inadequate education in Pakistan. It outlines how the Khilafah "Caliphate" will restore the Ummah to its former position of being the global leader in knowledge and research, through implementation of Hizb ut Tahrir's Constitution for the Khilafah "Caliphate".

Since the creation of Pakistan, education has been woefully neglected and corrupted, leading to tens of millions our sons and daughters being deprived of an education that Islam has mandated as a right for them. A British colonialist education has divided empirical sciences from Islamic education to form two separate institutions, mainstream schools and madrassas. This has continued to be implemented in almost the same format without consideration of Islam's viewpoint on this matter.

In Islam there is no detachment of religion from life, unlike Western civilization. Islam is the basis for all of our actions and viewpoints upon life. However, the current education seeks to produce on the one hand "worldly" people, who do not hold Islam as a world view, and on the other, a clergy that was not able to apply Islam to practical life. This dichotomy has led to a decline in our thinking, the adoption of western concepts, the development of western sentiments, the loss of competent Ulema, intellectuals and sincere politicians. And that is why people cry, that there is a "vacuum in leadership."

The current education policy aims to exclude Islam from practical life and keeping it an academic subject, whereas Islam mandates the development of dynamic, sincere and aware Islamic personalities. Thus the Khilafah "Caliphate" cultures people by Islam in a manner to be able to apply Islam in their political as well as individual lives. And they know the purpose of their life in this world is to worship Allah (swt), rather than divorcing Islam from political life.

The Islamic State will hold the responsibility of educating the sons and daughters of the Ummah. It will have the prime objective of establishing an education policy that will develop Islamic personalities with a strong Aqliyah and Nafsiyah. Education at primary and secondary levels will be provided free of cost to every child, male and female. Where possible, the Khilafah "Caliphate" State will endeavour to provide free or low cost education at university level. There will be no distinction and separation of schools and Madrassas. All educational institutes will carry the same objective and the same curriculum. Empirical sciences will be emphasized in every level of education with the objective of producing new research, development and technology, so that the Khilafah "Caliphate" leads the world in industrial innovation, health, architecture and other practical demands of human existence.

An equal amount of time will be dedicated to Arabic and the Islamic sciences so that the children will be grounded in the fundamental tenets of the Deen and apply Islam practically. The Islamic culture will be taught at all levels of education. Our most brilliant sons and daughters will be encouraged to become jurists in order that the understanding of Islam in practical life is in the best hands.

This policy will ensure that the sons and daughters of the Ummah look to their Deen to provide solutions to the problems the Ummah faces, economically, politically, internally and externally. It is this that allowed an Islamic civilization that was a beacon of light in a dark world for over a millennium.

Note: To see complete policy and its relevant articles of the constitution for the Khilafah "Caliphate" state please go to this web link. http://htmediapak.page.tl/policy-matters.htm

The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Pakistan