The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for specially targeted audiences, architectural merit, patterns of usage, and the role of libraries in a nation's cultural heritage, and the role of government, church or private sponsorship. Since the 1960s, issues of computerization and digitization have arisen.

The word library is derived from a French word "Librairie"; Latin "liber" = book. The library plays an important role in our academic and social lives. Library is an organized collection of information resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing and this collection of information may be in the form of books, newspapers, CD’s, journals and research papers etc. library provides us physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both containing collection of informative material. A library can be of different types like, school library, college library, office library or community library etc. and collection in a library may vary from books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blue-ray Discs, e-books, audio books, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items.

Rais-e-millat library is based at Miran Saiyed Ali compound Ashrafnagar (khambat shareef). It is part of Faizan-e-Ashraf Academy run by our trust. Our library boasts of thousands of books on varied subjects such as Islamic laws, Spirituality, Fatwa, Social laws of life in the light of Islam etc. Books are in different languages like Arabic, Urdu, English, Persian and Gujarati. The library also has books written by renowned scholars from around the world on different subjects. The literature available in our library is varied. Apart from literature our library consists of educational cd’s, vcd’s, dvd’s and other audio visual materials. It is one of the biggest libraries in the area with huge collection of educational materials.