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Pointing out the repeated attempts on her life, the prime minister said the Almighty had saved her every time possibly for having any wish of His fulfilled for the cause of the people.
Appreciating the activities of the Qwami Madrasas, the prime minister said millions of children, mostly poor and orphan, are taking education in those Madrasas.
“The greatest job the Qwami Madrasa is doing by giving food, shelter and education to the orphans and children of poor families,” she said adding that “so, it is absurd not to recognize the Qwami Education.”
Sheikh Hasina said her government has adopted an education policy in which religious education was given due importance. No education system can be a completed one without religious education, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said her government has acknowledged “Dawah-e-hadith” of Qawmi Madrasa equivalent to Master’s degree by passing a law in parliament so that no government in future can change the provision as was done in 1977.
Sheikh Hasina urged the alem-ulema to work together to impart competitive education to Qwami Madrasa students so that they can serve the nation in future and contribute to the national development along with the government.
The prime minister said her government has constituted a trust for welfare of the imams and muazzins. Around 80,000 alem and ulema have got job in the mosque-based non-formal education, she said.
About her government’s plan to build 560 mosques and Islamic cultural centres in the country, the prime minister said those centers would have arrangements for training of the Imams and hajj pilgrims. These centers, to be built with the support of the Saudi government, would work for preaching and promoting Islamic culture, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said her government after coming to power in 2009 has completed the construction of the minar, ‘shan’ and prayer rooms for women devotees in the Baitul Mokarram National Mosque.
The Awami League during its first tenure had taken the project for expansion of the Baitul Mokarran Mosque with the help of the then Saudi King. But, unfortunately the next BNP government stopped the work of the project, she said.
“It might be the desire of the Allah to have the unfinished tasks of the mosque completed by our government during our second term in office,” the prime minister said.
Sheikh Hasina said her government has passed a law for establishing an Arabic Islamic University and construction of the university is progressing on the land allocated by the government, she said.
Pointing out the conflicts among Muslims across, the prime minister said the discords are benefitting the arms producers at the cost of Muslims’ blood.
Sheikh Hasina said she had urged the OIC Secretary General during a conference against militancy and terrorism in the UN to resolve all conflicts among Muslims through negotiation. The same thing she told the Saudi King, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said there is no place for militancy, terrorism and corruption in Bangladesh. Bangladesh wants to prove that Islam is a religion of peace and it would be a peaceful, prosperous and developed country.
The prime minister said students of Qwami Madrasa would get job as the government has recognized their education. Now they would be able to stand on their own feet to make their lie prosperous, she said.
Sheikh Hasina sought doa from the alem and ulema saying she would get opportunity to serve them again if her government is elected for another term in office.
“If the Almighty desires, He will give us the opportunity to serve the people again and if He doesn’t, we will not get the opportunity. So, I leave everything to Allah,” she said.
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