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By this time every thinking and concerned Muslim has realized that the Ummah and the lands of Islam are engulfed by satanic forces of the kuffaar poised to swallow the Ummah and all the countries of Islam. In the political sphere there is no response to the onslaught unleashed against Islam and Muslims. Muslims—the entire Ummah—have become impotent and have hopelessly failed to respond to the kuffaar threat on all fronts and in all domains of the Ummah. The physical Jihad movement has totally collapsed all over the world on account of the transgressions of Muslims. Allah Ta’ala is denying His aid and the kuffaar have been given the upperhand over Muslims by Divine Design. We are thus surrounded and afflicted with defeat and disgrace all over the world. Turmoil and anarchy are wracking the lands of Islam and it appears that the noose is tightening around the neck of the Ummah threatening to extinguish Islam from our midst.

To a large extent the kuffaar have succeeded in their plots to throttle Islam and the Ummah. In Africa several countries which were formerly Muslim-majority lands have today become Christian-majority states. Poverty coupled with stark ignorance have taken the heaviest toll. Whole Muslim communities have been weaned away from Islam. In the present age the threat and onslaught are squarely directed against the children-the growing up generations of Islam. Thousands and thousands of remote villages clutter the World of Islam. In these villages live hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Muslim children who we hope and pray will be the Muslim adults of tomorrow. Just as we hope and pray that these millions of born Muslim children will be the adult Muslim Ummah of tomorrow, so too are the kuffaar, especially the Christians hoping and praying that these born Muslim children will tomorrow grow up to be Christians so that the lands of Islam are won over to Christianity without the need for a war. If the present trend of Muslim apathy is to continue, we can say without fear of contradiction that the hopes and prayers of the kuffaar will be fulfilled.

While we are only hoping and praying, the Christian kuffaar are actively adding effort to their hopes and prayers to win over entire Muslim communities to Christianity. Since Muslim children in the thousands of remote villages all over the world are gripped in stark ignorance being denied the very rudiments of elementary Deeni education, they are growing up without knowing that they are Muslims. They are being deprived of the Kalimah, of Tahaarat, Salaat and of the basic knowledge and practice of Islam without which it is not possible for them to remain Muslims. When these children grow up without ever having seen a Maktab (Madrasah), without knowing how to recite the Kalimah , without knowing what Tahaarat and Salaat is, then we can readily understand the fatal moral, spiritual and Deeni consequences which will ensue in the wake of this heart-rending havoc which is spreading all over the Muslim world.

The ONE AND ONLY WAY of stemming this tide of kufr which threatens to alienate the children of the Ummah from Islam, is to establish Maktabs by the thousand in all the remote villages all over the world wherever there happen to be Muslim communities. If the treasure of basic Deeni education could be given to these Muslim children, at least their Imaan will be safeguarded and they will remain Muslims in the face of poverty and other afflictions and threats. Due to abject poverty and apathy, the elders in these innumerable villages cannot afford to operate even a small hut-like structure Maktab (Madrasah) for the elementary Deeni education of their children. Yet in all these remote Muslim villages the Christians have built churches and have set up their preying missionary apparatus to capture the ignorant Muslim children.

Having seen and understood this grave danger, the Mujlisul Ulama of S.A. has embarked on its MAKTAB PROJECT. Since the past five years or so, we have purely by the fadhl of Allah Ta'ala worked in several countries. To date we have set up almost 1200 Maktabs --straw, bamboo and mud structures. In these Maktabs over 100,000 formerly deprived Muslim children are gaining Deeni education. Without these Maktabs, these children would have been totally deprived of Islam and would have constituted ready fodder for the kufr machine of the kuffaar missionaries. What we have achieved with Allah's fadhl, is a drop in the ocean. There is an imperative need to cover thousands of villages and establish the Maktab Project in every village where there happens to be a Muslim community. While this is the imperative need and while we have this in mind and sight, and while we are making efforts within the ambit of our means, the final outcome will undoubtedly be decided by only Allah Ta'ala. But our incumbent duty is to not only continue with the existing Maktabs which have so far been established, but to swiftly spread the Project to as many villages our resources permit us.

In Bangladesh we have about 650 Maktabs; in Pakistan about 450; in West Africa about 40; in Indonesia 41, in Kenya 2 and in India

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