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The Islamic state is under obligation to provide and ensure protection to the Non-Muslims, as much as to the Muslims, in respect of their life, honor and property. The problem is important and requires elucidation, which is being taken up in the present subject through references to the Holy Quran, the hadith and the practice of the pious caliphs.

This article presents an over view of studies conducted by the various scholars about portrayal of Islam and Islamic world during the time period (1971-2001). It is claimed that mainstream media of west and US have been disseminating false information about Islamic world since the several decades. Due to the distorted images, developed and manipulated by the media, Islam is the name of negativity in the west. It is generally believed that western and United States mainstream media often misrepresents and inaccurately interprets/portrays Islam, Islamic world and its manifestation. After conducting in depth analysis of various studies regarding portrayal of Islamic world prior the incident of 9/11, it was found that elite media in the United States including the newspapers: Like New York Times and Washington post; the magazines: like Time and News Week, electronic media including: like ABC, CBS, NBS&CNN have been highlighting Islamic world in negative and unfavorable manner. It is said this anti Islamic campaign has reached to enormous proportion with the demise of communism. The findings of several studies indicate that analyst, in Islamic world believe that negative image of Islamic country is primarily a conspiracy of American foreign office to invent a new bogy and enemy to fill vacuum created by the collapse of soviet Union and world wide desperation of communism, particularly demise of communism in former USSR.

The formal inception of praiseful poetry commenced from the Arabic language and then Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Hindi, eastern and other languages have been influenced by this sacred genre. Therefore, the influence of Arabic literature and culture has also been transferred. Similarly, the basic source of Islamic law, the Quran and Hadith, have also been used by Naat poets in every age, Some of the Scholars and proficient not only taught the subjects/disciplines of the Prophet’s hadith directly in their work but also mentioned quotes from the hadiths, literally and semantically. Some professional Naat poets have even utilized the hadith word by word in their praiseful verses. The research paper under revision is an attempt to explore the Natia poetry as...., which further illustrates the prototypes of Arabic, Persian and Urdu Natia poetry in different eras in which the hadiths of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم are quoted completely or sparingly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prior to migration to Madina, Muslims faced severe restrictions on practicing their faith openly while residing in Macca. Consequently, they secretly assembled at the house of Arqam bin Abi Arqam for worship and education. As the hostility from the non-believers in Macca intensified, hindering not only their worship but also their ability to live in accordance with their faith freely, Muslims were granted permission to migrate initially to Abyssinia and eventually were commanded to relocate to Madina. Madina became the new homeland for the Muslim community. Upon their arrival in Madina, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) embarked on the first administrative task: establishing the foundation of the Prophet's Mosque. This mosque served not only as the central place of worship but also as a hub for various aspects of Muslim life, including education, spiritual remembrance, dispute resolution, and governance. It played host to important gatherings, such as imprisoning captives, gathering resources for jihad, and receiving foreign delegations. Even today, by reestablishing the mosque as a focal point for worship and addressing contemporary societal issues, Muslims can reap the same blessings, fostering unity and national security. This article examines the historical significance of the mosque, the importance of the minbar and mehrab, and its pivotal role in diverse aspects of Muslim life. It also offers solutions for addressing some of the presentday social challenges through the mosque's revitalization as a central institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ʿUlmūl Ḥadīth is considered to be the primary source of Islamic knowledge. Since the very first century, Islamic scholars have constantly given it due respect and composed hundreds of books on various aspects of Ḥadīth and Fiqh diligently and comprehensively. When an individual studies the book of Ḥadīth thoroughly from the perspective of style and themes a term "Al-Jāmeʿ" emerges which basically means a book of Ḥadīth that has eight kinds of topics and Aḥādīth accordingly, for example: manners, interpretation, beliefs, rules and the signs of resurrection etc. Al-Jāmeʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ by Imām Muḥammad bin Ismāʿīl Bukhārī and Al-Jāmeʿ al-Tirmidhī by Imām Abū ʿīsā Tirmidhī are the most admired book of this kind respectively. There is no controversy about the Al-Jāmeʿ status of either of these two renowned works. On the other side, Al-Jāmeʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ by Imām Muslim Ibn Hajjāj Qushairī is criticized for having a very short section from Tafseer containing only 34 Aḥādīth. Due to this short section which cannot be considered as a proper chapter, the status of Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim as Al-Jāmeʿ is questioned by some well-known scholars. Despite this logical criticism a great number of Islamic scholars have included Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim in the category of Al-Jāmeʿ. They cited this indistinct rationale to validate their argument that although Imām Muslim has included only 34 Aḥādīth in Kitāb al-Tafsīr, yet he has mentioned a significant number of Aḥādīth on the theme of Tafsīr of Qurān throughout his work, subsequently constructing an incredibly convincing argument in favor of Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim as "Al-Jāmeʿ". As far as the question of mentioning Aḥādīth al-Tafsīr in various chapters is concerned, the scholars have composed numerous responses. This research work fundamentally traces the reasons to support the argument of Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim as Al-Jāmeʿ by revealing those Aḥādīth mentioned in Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim regarding Quran and ʿUlmūl al-Qurān. Also, this article will invoke researchers to find out the subsidiaries of ʿUlmūl al-Qurān in those Aḥādīth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis and science mapping of the publications emerging from the COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Pakistan. Bibliometrics and visualization techniques were used in this study. The data were collected from the Web of Science database with the "COMSATS University Islamabad" query in the affiliation category.A total of 26,841 documents were retrieved. VOSviewer, Biblioshiny, ScientoPy, and MS Excel software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the number of publications, particularly articles, has progressively increased. COMSATS had the most national collaborations with Quaid-e-Azam University, and China was identified as the top-ranked country for international collaborations. Furthermore, Engineering was the most attractive area for the CUI authors. This study would guide the researchers regarding important research areas while conducting, collaborating, and submitting their research in international databases.

Islam, as a comprehensive religion, encompasses essential teachings that pertain to various aspects of life. The Quran serves as a source of guidance, outlining fundamental principles, while the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) exemplified these teachings through practical application. Consequently, the practicality of Islam in our daily lives is beyond question. The teachings of Islam ensure the creation of a virtuous society, which can be fully realized by adhering to the Sunnah method. One crucial aspect of these teachings emphasizes the importance of entrusting significant responsibilities to capable individuals. This principle arises from the understanding that appointing an irresponsible person to a key position can result in immense harm and chaos. Two primary qualities are essential for any major responsibility: piety and competence. The Quran establishes the path to follow, while the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) implemented these teachings through his actions. His example provides a model for us to establish a righteous society by assigning responsibilities based on individuals' abilities and competencies. By adhering to the teachings of the Quran and following the Seerat, we can create a virtuous society that effectively assigns the right individuals to suitable roles, whether in the public or private sectors, as well as in personal matters.

‘llm –ul-Tabaqat’ has a basic importance in the field of’ ‘Ilm-ul-Asma-ur-Rijal’.It categorizes the traditional sciences into the various groups. Through this way it is easy to judge the sequence of narrators of ‘Hadith’. Quran and Hadith also describe the basic groups of companion. This knowledge gradually expanded in various fields and jurists, commentators, reciters, Judges and poets etc. were categorized into groups. Various authors wrote books in each field. Ibn e Saad was the person who wrote the book named ‘Al-Tabaqat-ul-Kubra’ in which he categorized Sahaba, followers of companions and other scholars of Islam according to eras and areas. He wrote brief bibliographies of about 3000 narrator’s lives. He explains Seerat-un-Nabi in very detail. He also writs the complete sequence of narrators. Sometimes, he debates about the narrator’s solidity with various aspects. In some parts of book he describes Sahaba, followers of companions and later scholars together due to which a difficulty occurs in searching and recognizing the narrator .The repetition of some Sahaba’s names is also there due to the groups distribution according to Era and area. In this article the ‘Tabaqat’ of companions, followers of companions and later scholars are described separately to make it easy for understanding.

This paper purports to analyze the religion-friendly postmodernism proposed by Merold Westphal. It begins by reviewing the current positions on the question of the relationship between post-modernism and religion and attempts to locate Westphal’s position in the intellectual map. It is submitted that there exists a spectrum of positions on the said question that stretches from anti-religious post-modernisms to religious rejections of post-modernism. Having briefly discussed important reasons for choosing Westphal for discussion, the paper proceeds to analyze his understanding of the nature of post-modernism, and his project of the ‘religious appropriation of post-modernism.’ It discusses in detail the question whether, being inimical to all ‘meta’ narrative and being anti-metaphysical, post-modernism is incompatible with religious beliefs, and whether the post-modern hermeneutic theory leaves any room for deriving objective meaning from religious texts. Westphal’s appropriation project is then discussed at length in its two hermeneutical prongs of ‘fininitude’ and ‘suspicion’ derived by him respectively from the beliefs of human ‘createdness’ and ‘fallenness.’ In conclusion it is shown how Westphal’s work attempts to represent a middle position between the two extremes discussed in the beginning of the paper.

The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the 21st century witnessed many intellectual and academic contributions in the field of Islamic Sciences. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (d. 2010), a renowned scholar of Islamic law and jurisprudence, Islamic Finance played a very significant role in the process of Islamization of laws and the economy in Pakistan. His contribution to Islamization of economics and financial system as an academician, Judge, member council of Islamic Ideology, member Commission for Islamization of Economy (CIE) and member Sharī’ah supervisory Board in State Bank of Pakistan, Takaful Pakistan and Bank of Khyber. The main objective of this paper is to focus on the efforts and contributions of Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi regarding Islamic Economics, Islamic Banking, and finance.

Sindh has honour of being a gateway of Islam wherefrom the light of this universal religion spread throughout the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. Since Islam preached fraternity and human equality and caters to the natural needs of human beings, it was warmly received by siddhi folk after the conquest of Sindh in 712 A.D. It was Islam that ushered an era of intellectual activity based on flourishing the very message of Islam by way of publishing religious literature and spreading it all the Sindh around. Most of the population of Sindh speaks reads and writes in Sindhi, thus, keeping in view the importance of the some, a good enough number of publishing houses has come into being whose contribution in publishing books, magazines, journals etc on Islam and Seerat is, in fact, a proud asset of Sindhi Language. It is because of this environment, so-called ethnic and nationalistic elements badly failed to get themselves on sound footings. As a result of this, Sindh, in modern times presents a beautiful outlook of Islam. This paper covers only a few publishing houses of Sindh, which, inter-alia, publish Islamic books on a larger scale. Amongst them, Sindh National Academy, Sindhica Academy, Hkimat-e-Quran Institute, Mehran Academy Shikarpur, Aiwan-e-Ilm-o-Adab Kandhkot, and Sindhi section of Da’wah Academy Islamabad stand at the top. The contribution of these Publishing Houses, their origin, thoughts, and impact on the overall religious environment of Sindh has also been touched in a comprehensive manner. At the end of this paper, a detailed list of findings has been given which recommends accelerated efforts of preaching Islam in Sindh on even more rational grounds.

Television advertisements play an important to reduce the gap between population growth and contraceptives. It is evident that people who watch advertisements about family planning adopt contraceptives as compare to those people who do not watch family planning advertisements. But almost 75% of viewers from Pakistan have shown negative attitudes towards the advertisements for the use of contraceptives. Contraceptives are adopted all over the globe where these family planning campaigns are watched and help to minimize and lower the knowledge gap about the use of different contraceptives. The major purpose of this research work was to see the impact of religious factors on attitudes and behavior towards the use of contraceptives. The cross-sectional study research was implied for this purpose and data was collected from 525 persons of different cities in Pakistan. Snowball sampling technique was used for this study through a personal administrated method, knowing the findings and testing the hypothesis in this study researcher used (PLS-SEM) partial least square structure equation modeling for this purpose. This research study shows that religious beliefs have a greater influence on the attitudes & behavior toward advertisements, while the

Use of social media has been abundant in our society hence it becomes a common source of sharing news today and one could share any type of news through social media. Since the user could be self-creator of news that’s why many of the news can be fake. Society face a lot of problems because of such fake news. This paper shows the effects of sharing such news. It also includes Islamic rules to follow while sharing any news to society and the order of Sharia for those who don’t follow these rules and spread fake news. This is a qualitative paper and it has library research. It has some of fake news which made drastic effects on society and then it provides instructions of Islam about it.

Hollywood movies are very popular in most nations around the world and the viewers of these countries turn to Hollywood blockbusters for entertainment purposes. Hollywood movie images have the ability and power to allow audiences to generate thoughts, views and opinions about different social, political or ideological issues. Islam, the world’s second largest religion as well as Muslims with more than a billion and half in numbers, have often been a subject of mis-representation and ridicule in the Hollywood. The current study attempted to explore the representation of various segments of Muslims in Hollywood movies. The study also tried to find out the image of Islam through the portrayal of Islamic countries in the movies. The qualitative content analysis has been used as a research design for this study. Through the technique of purposive sampling, four Hollywood movies from the year 2012 were selected for the analysis. The results indicated that all the segments of Muslims were depicted as anti-West. The representation of all the five Islamic countries was also depicted negatively in the movies. The results also revealed that life in Islamic countries was portrayed as clearly troubled rather than peaceful, and the people of Islamic countries were also shown as uncivilized citizens.

This study aims to investigate the impact of ethical leadership on job performance, organizational citizenship behavior and turnover Intention. Importantly, it examines the moderating role of Islamic work ethics. In this survey research participants were 350 employees randomly selected from telecom sector. Results indicate that ethical leadership is associated with increase in Job Performance Organizational citizenship behavior and decrease in employee’s turnover intention. Moreover, the results show that Islamic work ethics moderate the relationship between ethical leadership and job performance. This study was limited to the telecom sector of Pakistan. A predictive model on ethical leadership & Islamic work ethics could be built involving multiple sectors and geographical areas to gain higher generalizability. Our research suggests that telecom sector should develop and institute high ethics human resource practices that involve ethical recruitment and selection, training and compensation activities. These findings will contribute to the growing literature on Islamic work ethics and ethical leadership.

Today, a great emphasis has been established in the understanding the voting behavior of the people and religion is a strong segment of person's voting behavior. It is the most important aspect for a voter in the way of thinking about specific issues such as ideology, construction of personality, economics and society. Therefore, religion has a significant impact on the behavior of an individual when voting in elections is concerned. In democratic countries like Pakistan media has gained more importance in this regard. The present study focuses on effects of the contents presented in media on the voting behavior of religious people voting for religious parties in general elections 2013,local bodies’ elections 2015 and general elections 2018.

The Ideological Foundations: Pakistan came into being with the view to be a laboratory ofIslamic Injunctions. While addressing the opening ceremony of State Bank of Pakistan, the Father of the national said,"Ishall watch with keenness the work of your Research Organization in evolving practices compatible with Islamic ideals of social and economic life. The economic system of the West has created almost insoluble problems for humanity and to many of us it appears that only a miracle can save it from disaster that is now facing the world. t has failed to do justice between man and man and to eradicate friction from the international field. On the contrary it was largely responsible for the two World Wars in the last half century. The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history''1

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The house financing products are an important part of Islamic finance. The purpose of this research is to examine the existing house financing models which are commonly practiced in Islamic financial institutions around the world. This study does not cover all aspects of Islamic financing system rather it gives basic information about the theory and actual practices concerning house financing system. This research will also evaluate the current practices, issues and challenges of different types of products offered by Islamic Banks/DFIs for Islamic housing financing. These include diminishing Musharakah, Murabahah lil-amiri ljarah Muntahiyah bi-al-tamleck, and Istithna'.

As a student of Urdu, Frances Pritchett remembers her first experience of the ghazal, the preeminent genre of classical Urdu poetry...was love at first sight. But much to her puzzelment and dismay, she discovered that modern urdu critics generally approach the classical ghazal with appology, or even open disdain. In Nets of Awareness, Pritchett joins literary criticism and history to explain how ghazal,for centuries pride and joy of indo Muslim cilture,was abruptly dethroned devalued with in its own mileue by its own thoerists.This break with tradition was so sharp that today many aspects of the ghazal remain obsecure,and often distasteful to modern reader. The cause of this abrupt shift ,Pritchett argues ,was not literary at all,but political.Pritchett shows how British suppession of the Mutiny and subsequent rule had disastrous cultural as well as political consequences. In short, Pritchett shows us precisely the complexity and power of ghazal.

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the Sharia’h appraisal of House Building Finance Corporation Limited. The House Building Finance Corporation was established in 1952 under the act of parliament to finance construction of houses in the urban areas of Pakistan. In this research Ghar Aasān (Flexi) product of HBFCL is examined from Sharia’h perspective and a comparison is made with Islamic Banking (Meezan Bank Limited) and Conventional Banking United Bank Limited (UBL). This study also comprises the opinion of Sharia’h experts for the shariah compliance of Ghar Aasān (Flexi) scheme.

Chain of the narrators (Sanad) has a fundamental status in Islam. The dearth of Sanad can encourage anyone to manipulate hadith in their own context. In this regard, hadith scholars travelled long and tiring journeys from the North to the West in order to minimize the number of narrators. Because as a fact the less the number of narrators will be, the less there will be a chance of manipulation. Numerous books were compiled in the third century amongst them those hadith narrated by the three narrators between the Holy Prophet Peace be upon Him and the compiler were least in numbers and more authentic, which is called Thulathiyat. This study is based on the collection of the narrators who are not only the narrators of Thulathiyat but the students of Imam Abu Hanifa as well and other aspect of the paper is to highlight their tremendous efforts and contributions to ensure the authenticity of hadith for the up-coming Ummah. So that the feelings of realization and self-actualization is ignited in the Ummah about the tedious efforts of Imam Abu Hanifa and his learned students.