Roles Of Muslim Organizations In The Development Of Islamic Education
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KWARA STATE]

A report claims that the idea of establishing this organization was conceived during the Hajj of 1962 when the Late Sir. Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto accompanied by SheikhAbubaka  Gumi the Grand Qadi of Nigeria went on Hajj. The late premier of certain rites of Hajj.
    â€œJama’atNasirul Islam” a name suggested for the organization by Sheikh Abubakar Gumi was adopted “Jama’at being a name coined by Sheikh Uthman ibn Fudi for his people, thus the organization destined to be great service to the Nigeria Muslim Ummah was born. After the organization’s inception, there arose the problem of an office from which its activities would be monitored, Sultan Bello Mosque became its temporary office and Alhaji Abubakar el-Nafay was named secretary while Alhaji Labaika Olukade Bello, the then General Secretary of the Ansar-Islam Society of Nigeria was later employed as an administrative secretary.
Aims and Objectives
i.    To propagate the principles of Islam and win adherents to the True Faith.
ii.    To revive and maintain Islamic moralities among Muslims of all ages and sexes and encourage intellectual religious activities.
iii.    Promote fraternal relationship amongst. Nigerian Muslims in particular and Muslims worldwide in general.
iv.    To put into practice the ideals of Islam as taught in the Holy Qur’an Sunnah of the Holy Prophet of Islam and Ijima.
v.    To establish and run schools for the propagation of Islam and its culture and the study of Arabic Language.
vi.    To establish and run hospitals, maternities, clinics and dispensaries of all categories for the care of the sick.
vii.    To organize lectures, sermons, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, classes and other similar activities on Islamic principles so that Islamic ideals shall perpetually be kept in the forefront of human endeavour.
viii.    To foster unity and cooperation among Muslims and bring all Islamic organizations in Nigeria under one common umbrella.
ix.    To encourage integration and funding of conventional educations classes in the Ismiyya School system by government and NGOs to eradicate the unwholesome un Islamic and negative dependency syndrome of Almajiri system as is being practiced presently.
x.    To develop and manage mosques and libraries s places of worship and learning.
xi.    To establish and run a publication and broadcasting house.
xii.    To ensure Muslims participation with utmost quality and high moral worth in every aspect of our national live.
xiii.    To guide the Ummah towards achieving political and economic empowerment for sustainable self-sufficiency.
xiv.    To moderate, resolve and reconcile inter and intra sects conflict within JNI and put in place a mechanism for conflict resolution reconciliation.
xv.    To create an avenue for cooperation with, and outreach to other faiths on issues of common concern for harmonious co-existence.
xvi.    To set standards for Da’awah activities and encourage and guide the production and dissemination of Da’awah materials.
xvii.    To raise funds for execution and sustenance of programs and activities of JNI.
xviii.    Collaborate with appropriate and other non-governmental social, cultural and ethnic, nomadic and itinerant, community association with a view to extending welfare and Islamic ideals to them.
xix.    Generally promote the cause of Islam.
    Prior to the year 1916, some educated young Muslim in Lagos, who were not happy with lots of Muslim young men and women as compared with their Christians counterparts at that time, had formed themselves into progressive societies and prominent among these societies were the Muslim literacy society and Juvenile Muslim Society.
Aims and Objectives
i.    To encourage Muslim parent to send their children to school for secure educational and to urge these parent to allow these children to go beyond the primary school level (which was adequate for their needs at that time) and to proceed to pot secondary level. Majority of the Muslim parents could afford the expense of giving their children secular education, but their fear, which was children to Christianity.
ii.    To show the advantage derivable from secular education, and;
iii.    To remove the misunderstanding of Islam.
iv.    To fully explain the religion to all and sundry and
v.    To make Muslim take their proper place in the society where they were then regarded as second class citizen s because of their deficiency in secular education in spit of their being the majority.