Many in the West are mesmerised by the standard of education provided. This section hopes to outline services an Islamic State would provide.

The State would ensure the provision of free education to every male and female at both primary and secondary levels, and it would also endeavour to provide free education to everyone at university level. This is so because providing every single citizen of the State with the education he or she needs in all aspects of life is an essential necessity, therefore it is the State’s duty to provide it (especially now that the primary and secondary education have become basic necessities rather than luxuries). It is therefore an obligation upon the State to ensure that every individual is educated to such levels. As for the higher studies, some of these are also a necessity, such as medicine and study of the mining industry for instance, and the State should provide such education; whereas what is considered to be non essential studies such as literature, the State should provide such studies if funds were available.

The State would also set up libraries and laboratories for experimental fields of study, in other than the schools and colleges in order to enable those who wish to take up further studies to do so, in various subjects such as fiqh, hadith and tafseer, or medicine, civil engineering, chemistry etc....

All the above would allow the Ummah to host a sizeable number of mujtahideen, scientists and inventors. It has been reported that during the Islamic rule, a single street of Baghdad used to be a venue for many mujtahideen and scientists. The cities of Samarqand, Bukhara, Damascus, the cities of Hijaz, Al-Qayrawan, Cordoba and others used to be crowded with universities and students, which at the time reflected the might and the high profile of the greater Islamic State which was the leading power in every domain, be it military, economic or otherwise.