Darul Uloom Karachi () is a Madrasa in Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded by Muhammad Shafi Deobandi in June 1951 at Nanak Wara and later on it transferred to Korangi, Karachi, on March 17, 1957. It continues the tradition of the Darul uloom system initiated by Darul Uloom Deoband. The institution has adopted a balanced approach between religious and worldly matters. The secondary schools have individual faculties for both boys and girls. The school has the highest standards of Islamic education and offers a combined curriculum covering traditional Islamic studies and contemporary academic subjects. It is registered as one of the Islamic Schools under Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia.
Background
After the establishment of Pakistan, the Ulama belonging to Deoband School of thought consider it better to introduce a system of education on the basis of Quran and Sunnah. The Madrassa Darul Uloom Karachi has been established keeping in view the rules and regulations and teaching methods of Darul Uloom Deoband. This institution introduced the learning process according to the teachings of Quran and Sunnah and pro-launched Islamic knowledge of Science. Ulama of Deoband had not accepted the teaching methods and learning process of Western world. The Ulama of this institution had started the teaching parallel to the Western Teachings. The Darul Uloom Karachi also adopted the same way of teaching and learning, according to the methodology of Deoband. In short Darul Uloom Karachi is the religious Madrasa working on the foot steps of Deoband Ulama. Gradually, Darul Uloom Karachi have been introduced the worldly knowledge with the passage and requirement of need of the time. Anyhow, according to the booklet titled: Introducing Darul Uloom Karachi is given as under: This would have been a system which aimed at providing the education of Quran and Sunnah in all its perfection, as well as an equally perfect education and training of modern sciences and arts without any anti-religious content or prejudice. Had this been accomplished, the ill-fated gulf between secular and religious education which stood as bridged at the very outset. At that stage, it was clear that the model of the Darul Uloom established under duress at Deoband in India during the secular, even anti-religious, period of British rule was not sufficient, and there was no room for the subordinated education of Aligarh. The educational approach of the Nadwa was not enough where only history and literature were singled out to be the core and pivot of Islamic studies, at the cost of the rest of Islamic sciences. What the country was needed at that time, an all-embracing system of standard education and training, in all its perfection, featuring the two kinds of education, the religious and the worldly, at one platform under one roof. The programme of this institution is given as under: It is often felt that the education in schools and colleges is still working on the trail left by the British masters, and these institutions are simply producing clerks instead of experts in the sciences and arts. Due to this fact our present society is facing an ever-declining state of affairs. So for as the purposeful and standard religious education and its grooming is concerned, neither allowed nor introduced properly. It is a universal fact that "knowledge, Islamic knowledge in particular, goes hand in hand with the following of Sunnah and the spirit of the great forebears of Islam. Unless one is trained and groomed to imbibe in personality, their ways and temperaments, no matter how high one has reached in worldly knowledge, intellect and research, one carries no weight in Islam."