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Magazines are an important asset and interpreter of the nation, which contains a vast source of knowledge. This repository of knowledge guides every individual and class of the nation without distinction. In Islamic world in general and in subcontinent of Pakistan and India in particular, various magazines at different levels, associated with Islamic journalism , are active in the glory and propagation of the religion of Islam. There are also Urdu Islamic magazine and Journals whose great religious, journalistic journey is short but their effects are evident in all walks of life. Of these, “Zia e Haram” is considered to the one of the most prestigious journals in subcontinent. This journal is highlighting the true and universal concept of Islam on the basis of knowledge and rationality for the last five decades. In its monthly and special publications, Islam is presented as a comprehensive system of life by bringing the issues of life in line with the modern age. Zia Haram has always played a good role in the protection and promotion of religious tradition.

Ma’rūf bin Abdul al-Ghanī al-Russāfi was a great Arabic poet and writer. As a great advocate of freedom he opposed his contemporary rulers of Irāq. He was known as a poet of freedom. After serving at various indigenous Educational Institutions, he started work as lecture at the Royal College Istanbul as lecturer, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, he left Istanbul and travelled to Syria as the British authorities in Irāq. He settled in Damascus for one year. He returned to Irāq and started a newspaper: Al-Amal. He joined the committee for translation as its vice chairman. He became an inspector in the directorate of Education. He became a professor at Higher Teachers institution in end of third decade of nineteenth century. Ma'rūf Al-Rassāfī served his country as a social worker. He was acquainted with western literature through translation and his writing career while he was in Istanbul. He wrote poetry in four chapters and this article is about his poetry entitled: An artistic study of the poetry of Maruf Al-Rasafi . His Arabic poetry is full of elements of rhetoric, as he uses similes metaphors, illusions, hints and other rhetorical phenomena. His Arabic poetry is full with new trends especially social and political trends. We tried to elaborate these trends with examples from his poetry. He uses new vocabulary style and terms in his poetry, we have tried our best to present all these elements from his Arabic poetry in this article. We have tried to present its contribution to Arabic poetry in Modern period. We tried to present its status among its contemporary scholars. The article describes a best collection of his rhetorical phenomena in his Arabic poetry. Keywords: Rhetoric, Poetry, Trends, Social Values, Irāq, Maruf Rusāfī.

The Article is a comprehensive historical study of translations of the meanings of Holy Qur’an. The Translations of the meanings of Holy Qur’an was a matter of serious consideration in the early period of Islam. With the passage of Time, translation of the meanings of Holy Quran has become very necessary to preach the message of Islam as well as Holy Qura’n for Non Arabian people. It was stated by the Muslim historians that Hazrat Salman Al Farsi translated Surah Al Fatiha and Basmalah into Persian Language for understanding of Persian Muslims. Muslim scholars mentioned some other evidences regarding the justification of translation of the meanings of Holy Qur’an in other than Arabic Languages. As concerned, Sindhi Language, it belongs to Indo-Aryan language. It is an historical language of Sind region, according to the survey of 2007, the language is spoken by 25 million people of Sindh. Sind is a southeastern province of Pakistan. It is regulated by Sindhi language authority. Its writing system is like as: Arabic script Gurumukhi, Landau script, Indi Roman and Kindabadi script, it has been declared is an official language of the province of Sind. The language is very rich with Arabic, Words, terms and influence of Qur’an and rest of Islamic sciences. The Article reflects the services of translators of the meanings of Holy Qur’an who have done their translations of Holy Qur’an into Sindhi language. As concerned the names of theses translators: Akhwand Aziz-u-llah, Muhammad Siddiq Norang Potta, Qazi Sharf-u-deen Al suhanwi, Syed taj-u-ddeen Al-Amrooti, Moulana Nor Muhammad Adil poori, Abd-ur-rahim Manghi, Moulana Shanawaz peer zada, Muhammad Madni, Muhammad Abdullaha Khdahari, Ahmad Mallaha, Muhammad Ismail Shakarpoori, Abdul waris Dil, Professor abdullaha Tenu, Abdul Kareem Qureshee, and Abdul Hayee Abrro etc. The article describes their contribution towards Quranic and Islamic literature in Sindhi language.

The article entitled:Elam-ul Badee fi shaeri Samee-ul Qasim (Dirassah Fanniyya) is a rhetorical study of the poetry of an Arabian great poet Samee-ul Qasim. He was born in 1979. He contributed in modem Arabic poetry of resistance. He also contributed to Arabic journalism. He played great role to inspire Muslim Community.He addressed Muslim community in a very impressive way using rhetorical elements in his poetry like as at jannas, al-Iqtibas, Raddu-ul ijaz, al-alqalab, allazoom,al muwazna ,almushaakala Etc. He uses a very simple and rhetorical Arabic words to express his ideas. The article presents examples from his poetry to disclose the real status of his Arabic poetry. The article discusses literarry beauty of the poetry of Samee-ul Qasim . The article also discusses the contribution of same-ul-Qasim towords modem Arabic Poetry. The article would be very beneficient for the scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies.

Imām Al Shāfī has great contribution towards grammatical and principled Arabic poetry. It is observed that his poetry is rich with ethical values. He gained his reputation at the same time as a Muslim jurist and a great man of wisdom. He is the writer of many books regarding Islamic jurisprudence, and a famous book of poetry “Deewan e Shāfī.” More over his books contain such ethical values in couplet mood. All of these discussed values, he truly abstracted and retrieved from the holy Quran and hadith. This article presents a special study regarding his valuable topics of ethics. The article is a comprehensive study of the ethical values found in the poetry of Al imam Al-Shāfī. The important ethical values of his poetry are: true advice of Muslim and knowledge positively. He also discussed some bad habits to aware the people about their bad impacts on nature and gives examples of their destructions in human beings. Some of them are fraud, cruelty and being the secretary of the ruler etc. He also discussed some bad habits to aware the people about their bad impacts on nature and gives examples of their destructions in human beings. Some of them are fraud, cruelty and being the secretary of the ruler etc.

Dr. Khalīfah Abdul Hakim, (1896- 1959) has done his utmost effort to present the values of Islam and its various doctrines in the garb of Philosophy. This article is a comprehensive enunciation of Dr. Khalīfah Abdul Hakim’s approach to the Doctrine of Free will and Predestination, Good and Evil in Islam. Khalīfah says that man is endowed with free will. If he were merely a part of nature which is determined by fixed laws, he would not be different from matter and plants. Furthermore, God is free and when he made him in His own image and breathed His own spirit into him, as the Qur’an teaches, He made him also free. But, freedom is a double- edged weapon. If the granting of free will to man is an act of a loving fosterer, then any evil that may result from it cannot be attributed to lack of goodness in the Creator. Man can revolt even against his Creator. He is not created with perverted instincts. The theory of original sin is absolutely incompatible with the teachings of Islam. So far as the theory of existence of evil in nature is concerned, Khalīfah has categorically repudiated it as there is no flaw in nature. It is only our desires that attributed good or evil to the happenings of nature. There is no natural evil but there certainly exists moral evil as a result of the gift of free will to man. However, there are two kinds of moral evil. First, the evil caused by man’s own acts. Second, the evil caused by the acts of others. The sufferings caused by man’s own acts are actually the result of his endowed free will. The sufferings caused by the acts of others are the source of man’s purification.

Linguists and Muslim jurists have depended heavily on the Arabic Language in their researches about Islamic legislation. The Arabic language is the true method of understanding the words of Holy Quran which is the first reference in deriving Islamic Commandments. Without learning and understanding the Arabic Language it is impossible to get knowledge of Islamic legislation, therefore, the Muslim has started to teach and learn the Arabic Language. The jurists have made it the basic condition to derive the Islamic Commandments for interpretation. The Companions of Holy Prophet (PBUH) and their followers have struggled for the interpretation of Holy Quran as linguistic explanation. This research will present the importance of Arabic Language in the light of Quran, Sunnah and conduct of Companions and Imams. In this research the importance and necessity of Arabic Language has been included according to the opinion of jurists and imams for interpreters and Muftis. This study will strengthen the relationship between Arabic Language and Islamic Commandments and it will increase the passion to learn the Arabic Language.