Supply House

its economic and national machinery, and these institutions fulfill that need. They supply reliable professionals for various sectors—teachers, clerks, officers, managers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, supervisors, editors, pilots, secretaries, administrators, and so on. All these individuals are produced by the secular educational institutions we call schools, colleges, and universities. The same applies to the vast Muslim community. The nearly 200 million Muslims living in this country constantly need individuals to fulfill their various religious and communal requirements. To meet these needs, religious madrasas function as a continuous “supply house.” Currently, there are approximately 500,000 mosques in India, and the imams for these mosques come from these religious madrasas. Countless educational institutions also receive their teachers from here. Similarly, administrators for community institutions, authors for writing and publishing departments, and editors for Islamic journalism are supplied by these madrasas. Today, many organizations exist within the Muslim community, and most of their personnel are also sourced from this supply house. An important lesson to learn here is that negative actions often prove to be futile, while positive actions not only achieve their primary goals but also bring about numerous additional benefits that their initial leaders might never have imagined. For instance, in modern times, a new tool called the computer has emerged. It created a demand for Urdu operators and Arabic operators everywhere.