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Islam has given complete guidance regarding clothing and physical appearance of women. Clothing has a significant role in woman interaction because proper dressing, prohibit immorality in society. Quran and Sunnah have clearly emphasis the extent of cover for both genders. It indicates that interaction between men and women should be in proper manners while both genders are wearing clothes providing cover to the extent describe in Quran and Sunnah. This matter must be deleted proactively to maintain peace and harmony among the members of Muslim society. This article covers the Islamic guideline about the Muslim woman's dress in the light of Quran and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (SAW). This paper also covers those agreed upon guideline about the dress of Muslim woman. The four important requirements of dress are pointed out in this article are: extent of covering, haziness, looseness and all cover appearance. It is important that Muslim society should understand the reason behind these requirements prescribed by the Quran and Sunnah. This paper stresses upon the realization and understanding of Islamic guidelines about dress of Muslim woman which would help our society to fulfill its objectives and gain benefits from implementations.
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زینب شفاعت July 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 18
Tags: Clothing, Dressing, Quran, Sunnah, مسلم خواتین
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The methodology of practicing the various forms of spiritual healing, is referred to as “Ruqyah”, this tradition is as ancient as the religion itself. The belief of using divine spiritual energy to counteract the negative & sometimes satanic forces within Allah’s (SWT) creation has always been a recognized science with our illustrious tradition. As a matter of fact it was the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who affirmed the existence of black magic (sehr), evil eye (al-ayn), jinns (creation created from fire) & the destructive force of envy (hassad). The Messenger (PBUH) equipped His nation with the necessary means to counteract such influences through his blessed practices, (Sunnah) which has been passed down as continuous river of mercy from one generation to the next. But unfortunately we observe in Pakistani Society, that people are using this term in a negative way saying themselves Aamil (Spiritual Healer), and causing negative propagation about Islam and it’s concept of “Ruqyah” ( spiritual healing).
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حافظ احمد حماد, محمد کاشف نصیر July 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 18
Tags: Black magic, Evil eye, Ruqyah, Sehr, Spiritual healing
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This paper deals about Reformist and Jihadi Struggle of Syed Ahmed Shaheed. Syed Ahmed Shaheed was born in Utarpardesh (India) in 1786 AD. He was fond of horse riding and physical exercise since his childhood. He remained under the supervision of Shah Abdul Aziz & Shah Abdul Qadir, through which he spread the teachings of Shah Walliullah. At that time politically sub-continent was under the authority’s sway of British, and Sikhs in Panjab, socially Muslims were trapped in Shrik and Bidiat. He took practical steps weaken such meaningless and traditional practices by the dawah and preaching and started Jihad against the amines of Islam. He founded an Islamic state based on true spirits of its teachings. Foes couldn’t sustain such measures. He was betrayed by the hypocrites, hatched many conspiracies against him. Sayed sahib waged a decisive battle against Shar sinjh son of Ranjit singh and laid his life there in 1831 AD. In this paper some revolutionary steps of Syed Ahmed Shaheed’s are discussed.
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خیر محمد آصف میمن July 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 18
Tags: Balakot, Preaching, Sikh Struggle, Syed Ahmed Shaheed, جہاد
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The chapter of Individual ownership has always been a bone of contention between Islam and Socialism. Socialism accepts the man's individual ownership on consumable goods but doesn't consider the same for factors of production i.e. land and factories etc. On the other hand, Islam recognizes and accepts the individual ownership on both consumable goods and factors of production. However, Islam has also made a legal system for the rightful use of this individual ownership. Under this legal system, the owner of a factory cannot shut it down by his own will. If the products of this factory are a necessity for general masses and shutting it down is causing trouble for them, the government will force the owner to open the factory for benefit of general masses
The individual ownership on consumable goods and factors of production has existed during the periods of all Prophets of Al Mighty Allah. No Prophet has denied this. The same was done during the life of Prophet Muhammad, before prophet hood and afterwards. Had the important issue of individual ownership of consumable goods and factors of production not valid in Islam, it would certainly have been described in detail in the discussion of lawful and forbidden in Islam. The true reason for giving goods and factors of production in the individual ownership was that a man will increase them through his efforts and grow in the commercial field which will result in benefit of people and country.
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محمد اسحاق July 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 18
Tags: Consumable goods, Islam, Ownership, Socialism
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This study is done to explore and highlight ‘The Characteristics of Islamic political philosophy’ as enunciated by Quran and Hadith. According to Islamic political thought, Almighty Allah is the lord of the whole universe. He is not only creator of the universe, He also possesses the absolute sovereignty over it. Nothing is out of His command. His orders are to be obeyed. He has the power of legislation for mankind. In an Islamic state all, His sovereignty over the mankind is to be reflected in the law of the land. The prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is His last and final messenger, has the lawful authority to elaborate and explain the injunction of Quran. The Muslim follow the prophet’s sunnah as he is, according to Quran, the final authority in all disputes which may arise amongst them time to time. The Muslim are required to surrender themselves to the judgment of the Prophet heartily. In the following lines all those aspects of Islamic political philosophy are discussed which explain the nature of an Islamic state. ‘The unique character of Islamic political philosophy’ is the universality, i.e, it is today as practicable in a modern Muslim state as it was practicable fourteen hundred years ago by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the state of Medina.
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ثمر سلطانہ, سید ذاکر شاہ July 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 18
Tags: Hadith, Islamic political philosophy, Islamic State, Last messenger, Law of land, Quran, Sovereignty of Allah, Sunnah
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This paper explores three significant aspects of Islamiccivilization,Universality, Moderation and Renaissance in their historical context and futuristic perspectives. Among diverse global and historical civilizations, Islamic civilization plays a prominent role in all aspects of human life and inspires major populations round the globe. Intrinsically, present scholarship on civilizational debate demands an intensive work to unfold the issues of above mentioned aspects of Islamic civilization. Applying hermeneutics methodof qualitative paradigm, this study focuses on the cutting edge approaches of Muslim scholars on the issue. The study unfolds the infinite view of Islamic civilization and concludes that true Islamic solutions to the major challenges of present world are quite pertinent and accomplished enough to restore harmony.
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حافظ ساجد اقبال شیخ, زہرہ ملک January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: harmony, Islamic civilization, Moderation, renaissance, universality
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Contribution of Arabic and Persian in the creation of Urdu Language.The Islamic ideology and teachings have profound influence on the Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages with respect to the quality of subject, themes and linguistic semantic and syntax.
During various eras of Islamic civilizations and societies, the Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages were the basis not only for preservation of Islamic heritage but for the literature and art as well. It would be an embellishment to admit that the work escalated to higher echelon of Urdu literature with the usage and adoption of Arabic and Persian prose.
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Jahan Ara Lutfi January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Arabic, Islamic Ideology, Persian, Urdu
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There is a misconception that Islam believes in gender discrimination because daughter was given half of the part as compare to the son in inheritance. But it is the only case while there are no of cases where a female was given the equal, more than a male part or in some cases a female was given the part and male was deprived. In this paper we try to highlight the no of cases with example to refute gender discrimination in Islam. While for the case where a female was given the half a series of logical arguments regarding the responsibilities of male because why he was receiving the double are discussed.
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بی بی عالیہ, سید غضنفر احمد January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: gender discrimination, Inheritance, women rights, اسلامی قانون
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Istanbul historically known as Constantinople is the most populous city in Turkeyand the country's economic, cultural, and historical center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus Strait which separates Europe and Asia between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Istanbul for more than 2,500 years has stood between conflicting surges of religion, culture, and imperial power. A lot of nations tried to conquer the city but they failed. When the Ottomans crossed into Europe in the mid-14th century, the fate of Constantinople was sealed. The inevitable end was retarded by the defeat of the Turks at the hands of Timur in 1402; but in 1422 the Ottoman sultan of Turkey, Murad II, laid siege to Constantinople. This attempt failed, only to be repeated 30 years later. In 1453 another Ottoman sultan, Muhammad II, proceeded to blockade the Bosporus by the erection of a strong fortress at its narrowest point. The siege of the city began in April 6, 1453. The Golden Horn was protected by a chain, but the sultan succeeded in hauling his fleet by land from the Bosporus into the Golden Horn. The final assault was made on May 29, and, in spite of the desperate resistance of the inhabitants aided by the Genoese, the city fell.
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فرزانہ جبین, فیضان احمد January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Bosporus, Constantinople, Eurasia, Golden Horn, Marmara, Muhammad II, Ottomans
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In the history of Subcontinent Indo-Pak,Muslim rulers have the honor to start the art of historiography and they gave full support to develop it in this region.Salateen-e- Delhi encourage this art in Persian language and Mughal rulers supported this art in Turkish language along with Persian. The Mughal rulers also participated in this art by writing biographies. The art of historiography became more popular in Persian language as compared to Turkish language. As a result British rulers study of history of Subcontinent in Sanskrit as well as Persian when their rule stabilized. They founded Asiatic Society of Bengal and Royal Asiatic Society for its development. These organizations promoted educational and research activities in the Subcontinent. In the fourth decade of 19th century, when Urdu replaced Persian, the Muslims historians translated all available historical material regarding Islamic History, Seerah,and history of Subcontinent from Persian and Arabic to Urdu and introduced new methodology of research and review. They also connected old history, culture, and knowledge with future generation. In the following article the work of historians of 19th and 20th Century has been examined and summarized.
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صوفیہ فرناز January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Abdul Kalam, Aljaddiah Letters, Ghubar Khatir, Ibn Zaydon
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HazratMuajidAlafSani was a revolutionary personality of the eleventh century, whose movement left indelible mark on the following centuries by successfully altering the course of history. The time when he started propagating the true message of Islam, the propagation of 'Deen-e-ilahi' was in full swing. The diabolical aim behind the propagation of this pseudo-religion was to amalgamate all the dominant religions of the time particularly Islam and Hinduism in such a way that both of them lose their individuality and distinctness. As a result, all the nations may gather under the banner of the so called religion. To this end, many a principle of Islam were abrogated and the customs, values, and principles of the muslims living in the subcontinent wereabout to change altogether. However, he was MujadidAlafSain who girded up his loin and dealt with all these challenges through a comprehensive strategy and came out with flying colors in the face of all the stumbling blocks in his way. Today, current society is also suffered these types of challenges. This paper deals with the social impacts of present day's ideological challenges and aims at doing away with them through the teachings of MujadadAlafSani(ra).
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عدنان ملک, محمد زبیر January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: DeeniIllahi, Idealogical challenges, Mujadid Alf Sani, Social impacts
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Islamic concept of knowledge and curriculum making: a critical and analytical study
The concept of knowledge and ethics are the two elements of any civilization. The nation who has these two concepts [Epistemology& Ethics) will have its own civilization. Western philosophers like Aristotal, Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche were of the view that civilization is composed of the concept of knowledge and of morality. In the modern West, Immanuel Kant completely changed the concept of knowledge whereas Nietzsche replaced it with the concept of power. Based on these two changes, Western civilization has changed completely and a new civilization came into existence which completely based on the concept of absolute power.
Muslims also needed to think on it. Imam Ghazali and Shah Waliullah paid attention to this cause but they could not establish new concept. Muslim world, Particularly Iqbal in Sub-continent wanted to work on the Islamic concept of knowledge, some of his poetry lyrics exhibits of his insight but he failed to shape it conceptually. Later on, Syed Moudoodi worked on it but he could not complete the task, the outline of his vision regarding the theory of knowledge can be found in his writings. Some other scholars such as Dr. Israr, AmeenAhsanIslahi and NaeemSiddiqui also tried to work on it. JavedGhamidi took the same concept ahead. One misconception about his concept of knowledge is that he instead of reforming new concept of knowledge is trying to re-theorize whole religion which is a journey to mislead destination. Our concept of knowledge is connected with concept of world.
ZafarAansari also tried to work on it in the regime of Zia ulHaq. The Islamic university was founded for this reason but they committed a mistake of Islamization of all branches of knowledge instead of formulating the said concept of knowledge. Actually, Islam should be compatible with the concept of power by combining the concept of Islamic Epistemology with the concept of world view which is not done yet. This article presents the detail analysis of the Islamic concept of knowledge.
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محمد غیاث January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Curriculum, Epistemology, Islamic concept of knowledge, The theory of knowledge, world view
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Human history in general and history of religion in particular is surrounded by the differences and conflicts. Christians are divided into Protestants, Adventists and Catholics; Jews are divided in Judaism, Hebrewism and Semitism, Hindus have their own divisions as well. During the rule of Hazrat Omer R.A. Muslims conquered a large area of the world and Islam spread far and wide. Complications began to appear, keeping in view of these complications Muslim scholars decided to compile Islamic jurisprudence in the light of Quran and Sunna to guide common Muslim and to prevent them from misguiding. In the period of Khalifa abu Mansoor Jafar the class of Muslim jurisprudence (Fuqaha) appeared, they keenly worked on Islamic legislations and became the founder of major schools of thought among Muslims.
Later on, in subcontinent under the rule of British government and influence of Hinduism uneducated Muslim were being misled, it was alarming situation for Muslim Ulema and scholars and to counter this situation some Islamic Madarssahs and institutes were established by Muslim scholars, however some differences were appeared among the disciples of these institutes. Hence they were divided into various groups by the name of their respective Madarssahs. The present paper aims to delineate the emergence of various Schools of thought among Muslim Umma and appearance of sectism and cultism among the Muslims of subcontinent. The descriptive and historical method of study is used in this paper.
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حفصہ صدیقی, رعنا افضل January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Islam, Islamic jurisprudence, religious differences, sect, World religion
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This is free translation with references of the famous Article “Arabic Literature between its Past and Future,” which published in October 1945 the first issue of journal “Al-Katib Al-Misri” written by renowned Arabic writer Porf. Dr. Taha Hussain, who was the prominent Egyptian Philosopher, Novelist, and the founder of the modernist movement in Arabic literature of 20th century, this Article asserts the continuity of Arabic literature.Unlike Greek and Latin literature, which have no direct contemporary extension, according to the Taha Hussain, modern Arabic literature is a direct linear extension of classical literature.
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طٰہٰ حسین, عمیر رئیس الدین, محمد اسحاق January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17
Tags: Classical Arabic literature, Greek, Latin, Taha Hussain, Traditional Arabic literature
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In Urdu, voluminous books and encyclopaedias have been and are being produced on Seerah. Urdu Daira Mua’rif Islamia Or Urdu Encyclopaedia is one such work as it is replete with matter on the geography of Seerah. A lot of entries have been written on almost all the dimensions of geography of Seerah. The present article defines geography of Seerah, expounds its branches or dimensions and takes geographical perusal of the entries on geographical Seerah in Urdu Daira Mua’rif Islamia Or Urdu Encyclopaedia. While reviewing these entries, emphasis is laid on the use of geography, both anthropological geography, or human geography and physical geography employed in these entries. The errors which have unwittingly crept into these valuable entries are pointed out. The maps drawn by the modern Seerah writers in their geographical works are referred to, to highlight geographical impact of these works on the modern geographical Seerah writing. This article highlights two things. Firstly, the salient features of the land of Seerah or the land inhabited by the Holy Prophet surrounded by the people described in these entries. Secondly, the impact factor of these entries is also discussed.
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Nadia Mumtaz January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: Anthropological Geography, Holy Campaigns (Ghazaw’at), Holy Expeditions (Saraya), Human Geography, Physical Geography, Time Geography, Tribal Geography
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Jammat-e-Islami Pakistan (JI), is one of the pioneers of contemporary Islamic movements, founded by Syed Abu-Al-Ala Maududi, one of the most prominent Islamic Ideologues of 20th century. In party’s plan of action reformation and re-construction of thought in the light of Quran ad sunnah was very important point. Literature produced by the party intellectuals during 1930s-1960s resonated among whole Muslim Ummah and provided stimulation to contemporary Islamic resurgence for decades. However recently JI is being declared as intellectually exhausted. Objective of study was to explore the fact and was conducted by taking stock of the intellectual work carried out by JI from time to time. Face to face interviews of JI leaders and activists were conducted for in-depth understanding. Study was very significant as intellectual exhaustion meant chilling delay in birth of ideal social justice which billions dreamt in Islamic revolution. Study indicated that since 1980’s the literature produced by the party departments responsible for the work was insignificant. However there are no sign of intellectual exhaustion. Party leadership is heavily engaged in self-criticism and formulation of new strategy to make-up its deficiencies. World is anxiously watching, the response of Mawdudi’s spiritual children, to the life-threatening challenge to the party (vanguard of Islamic revolution), he founded and nourished superbly and tirelessly.
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Muhammad Rafi January 1st, 2019
Posted In: Issue 17, Research Articles
Tags: in-depth understanding, Intellectual exhaustion, Islamic resurgence, Maududi’s spiritual children, Reformation of thought, resonated, vanguard
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