The importance of knowledge and education hardly needs any emphasis. To Islam, no scheme of Muslims is of greater significance than the scheme of education. The entire edifice of the Islamic scheme of things rests on Ilm (knowledge). Islam has therefore enjoined upon Muslims, both men and women, to attain the knowledge they need in fulfilling their commitments as Muslims, thus attaching the highest excellence of ilm and Ulama.

Centuries long history of Muslims bears testimony to the fact that the ilm has always ben the chief concern of the Muslim Ummah and through all the ages it has unflinchingly maintained its own system of education, designed after its distinct ideology.