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Correspondence on the subject of the education of the Muhammadan community in British India and their employment in the public service generally — Calcutta: Government Printing India, 1886

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Routine for the 2nd Class.

Days of the
week.
Houbs.
10 to 11 A.M.
11 to 12 A.M.
12 to 12J p.m.
12| to 1 P.M.
1 to 2 P.M.
2 to 3 p.m.
Saturday .
Touzeeh .
Geography
Exercise . . .
English .
Mokamut Hur-
reeree.
Sunday .
Shureh Hikmutool-
Yaman.
Molla Hussain .
Hidaya . . .
Hidaya .
Translation.
Monday .
Mollah Hussain
English . . ,
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Exercise . .
Mokamut Hurreeree
Touzeeh.
Tuesday .
Hidaya . .
Geography
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o
Hikmutool-Yaman .
English .
Translation.
Wednesday
Hidaya . . .
English . .
Exercise .
Touzeeh.
Mollah Hus-
sain,
Thursday .
English .
Hidaya .
Hikmutool-Yaman .
Mokamut Hurreeree
Translation.

Routine for the 1st Class.

Days of the
week.
Houks.
10 to 11 A.M.
11 to 12 A.M.
12 to 12J p.m.
12J to 1 P.M.
1 to 2 P.M.
2 to 3 P.M.
Saturday . .
Hidaya . .
English .
Exercise . . .
Cheghmanee .
Sadra.
Sunday .
Hidaya .
Motanubbee
Motawul . .
Motawul . .
Translation.
Monday .
Sadra
Humdoollah .
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o
Exercise . . .
Motanubbee . *.
English.
Tuesday . .
Humdoollah .
English .
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Motawul .
Cheghmanee .
Translation.
Wednesday
Hidaya .
Cheghmanee .
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Exercise .
Motanubbee .
English.
Thursday
Hidaya .
Sadra . . .
Humdoollah .
English .
Translation.

The teachers and their pupils should attend to their classes, respectively, from 10 A.M.
to 3 P.M.
Reasons for the studies of the above sciences are thus stated ; but in the 2nd paragraph I
stated the reasons with regard to the education of the Mahomedan students in the English
and Bengali proficiency. The following is a statement of the Arabic literature and science:—
IV.—It is a well-known fact that the essential object of acquiring knowledge is to bring
out to perfection the mental and moral functions of one's ownself, as, apart from any considera-
tion for the future, it forms the very qualification which makes one respected and honored by his
fellow-beings and co-religionists; and render him perfectly wise and capable for worldly pur-
poses, especially for the holding offices in the public service, which every one enjoying peace
and tranquillity is by duty bound to perform with zeal and promptitude. But the accomplishment
and perfection of the mental and moral powers are entirely impracticable unless the things
tending to their improvement are learned, and the hindrances thereto removed and set aside;
and the said acquirement of the one and removal of the other cannot be well achieved so long
as the causes of perfection and imperfection are not fully distinguished; for it often happens that
out of a misunderstanding or vicious and passionate propensities, men are led to think as per-
fect what is in reality grossly imperfect, and consequently they are induced to labour hard
for requiring it and be pleased, and feeling proud of it on account of their ignorance. It also
generally happens that men mistake the evils hindering perfection for the causes leading to
perfection. This is the reason why many rash people of but imperfect understanding regard
perfidy and dishonesty as the means of their well-being, and utterly hate and disregard honesty
and fidelity, the essential requirements of virtue. But the various causes of perfection and
imperfection cannot be distinguished unless the precise standard of metaphysical and moral
sciences, which, for the followers of Islam, consists in a perfect and complete knowledge of
Mahomedan jurisprudence, moral philosophy and political economy, is acted upon.
It is therefore of the utmost importance to learn philosophy and jurisprudence. But
this great object cannot be attained unless proficiency is acquired in those subjects which form
the groundwork of a man’s education, which from the ordinary means of achieving that pur-
pose, such as grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, principles of law, and geometry, which are
the key to the substitutes and intricacies of law and philosophy. Hence, it is clearly the
bounden duty of one who aspires at perfection to be well versed in grammar, rhetoric, litera-
ture, logic, and arithmetic, principles of Mahomedan law, geometry, jurisprudence, and the
different branches of philosophy; therefore the writer insists on the teaching of these. But
this object cannot be gained within the aid of the Government.
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