Kupwara, June 30: While most students in Jammu and Kashmir seem dissatisfied with the mode of online education, three students studying at Jamia Islamia Waripora in the Handwara sub-district in northern Kashmir have completed memorizing the Holy Quran (Hifz -e-Quran) via online mode a few days ago. .

Jamia Islamia has been providing both modern and religious education to its students for several years and at present more than three hundred students in three districts of North Kashmir are attending this institution.

One of the three students who achieved the feat is a Grade 9 student from Hangah Handwara. Basharat Hassan Bhat, son of Ghulam Hassan Bhat, was admitted to the 5th grade in 2016 and since then he has had both modern and religious education at Jamia Islamia Waripora.

According to school officials, Basharat had memorized twenty-five chapters of the Holy Quran at the school until the lockdown was imposed this year. They said that shortly after the schools closed, students were offered online lessons and over time Basharat completed memorizing thirty whole chapters of the Holy Quran in June.

“We were looking forward to such a school where both religious and modern education could be provided to students and once I met Jamia Islamia Waripora I admitted Basharat here,” said Tariq Hassan Bhat, elder brother from Basharat. Great Cashmere.

“I am truly grateful to the school administration and in particular to the Hifiz department who continued online classes during the lockdown. It is because of the effort put forward by the teachers of Basharat that it is now called Hafiz-I-Koran. I hope he also excels in modern education by qualifying NEET after 12th place, ”he added.

Meanwhile, Hilal Ahmad, who teaches Urdu at Jamia Islamia, said Basharat is an extraordinary student who is always in the top five in the class. He said that Basharat not only proved his courage by memorizing the whole Quran, but he is also an excellent student of modern education.

Another former student Abrar Ashraf Khan, son of Mohammad Ashraf Khan, resident of Diver Lolab, also completed memorizing the Holy Quran during the lockdown in effect via the online mode.

Abrar, a class 10 student, had been admitted in 2016 to class 5 and since then he has continued to memorize the Holy Quran.

By the time of the lockdown in April this year, he had memorized twenty-four chapters and since then has been taking regular online classes.

According to his parents, Abrar also took regular lessons from a local aalim to complete memorization of the Holy Quran. Abrar completed memorizing thirty entire chapters on June 21.

The youngest of the three Ziyad Ul Mujtaba from Dorsa Lolab also achieved the feat. Ziyad is a 7th grader from a middle class family. His family yearns to see Abrar a doctor after passing 12th grade.

Meanwhile, the principal of the school, Ghulam Nabi Khamosh, said Great Cashmere that their effort has been to provide both religious and modern education to the students so that they can compete in the tough competitive scenario.

He said that Jamia Islamia students take advantage of the hostel facilities and each student has to pay thirty five hundred tuition fees per month. He said that students receive Hifiz lessons after Fajar prayers until 8:30 a.m. and after that they appear in modern education classes until 4 p.m.

He said that after Magrib’s prayers until Isha, the students are again engaged in Hifiz’s classes. “We want to produce such students who can cope with the scientific temperament of society, which is why we have provided both types of education in our school.