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The most obvious strength of the Madrasa system of any Islamic seminary whether it's in Turkey whether it's in

Jakarta whether it is in Islamabad whether it's in Medina whether it is in Qatar

The most obvious strength of the Islamic system is the encyclopedic

grasp of all of the Islamic sciences that any graduate must have. It is both

Encyclopedic in scope and in depth. You cannot graduate from any Madrasa. You cannot graduate from any

reputable Islamic study school in any Muslim country without studying every single branch of Islam

to a level of familiarity that would allow you to read on your own and

then typically you would specialize in one or two of the disciplines. Now in my time in Medina

I know from my time things have changed dramatically. I think for the worse in terms of in terms of the strength of our curriculum

I'm very happy I graduated when I did and my time we had the old school system which was the equivalent of

25 credit hours right when I was in my engineering degree in Houston you were not allowed to take more than 18

You maximum you couldn't take more than 18 hours in Medina for all 10 years

We were forced to take the equivalent of 25 credit hours. We had 15 professors teaching us

15 different subjects and Moutou'un all of the Moutou'un are classical. We're studying actual methods

We went over Al-Fia Ibn-e-Malik line by line. We went over books of Fikh

We went over, you know, we died in Muqsh-Tahid. We went over Kut'a. I was in Kut'a. Hadid. We went over the Kut'a

This is encyclopedic and I was in the College of Hadith but I had six hours of Fikh every week

I had three hours of Luhah every week. It doesn't matter if I'm in Hadith if I'm a graduate of the University of Medina

I had better know all of the sciences of Islam cover to cover to a basic level

Similarly, those in the College of Luhah would still do Muslim al-Hadith one hour sure I had five hours

But still they would do it and they would do it cover to cover no matter what college you graduated from you would have to do

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