37. Al-Saffat/The Rows
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. By those lining up in rows,
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a. and those drivers, driving away,
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a. and those reciting the Reminder – The Divine Qur’an.
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a. Indeed, your Allah is the One and Only Allah of everyone.
b. HE has no parents, no partners, no siblings, no sons, and no daughters.
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a. Allah is Rabb - The Lord of the celestial realm and the terrestrial world and whatever is
within and between them, and,
b. Allah is also Rabb - The Lord of the vast expanse of the East and the West.
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a. Indeed, WE adorned the sky of the terrestrial world with splendor of the glittering stars.
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a. And secured them with meteors against every defiant Satan.
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a. So that they, who seek to know the unknowable, may not be able to eavesdrop on the Exalted Assembly of angels,
b. for they will be pelted with meteors from every side -
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a. – and driven off,
b. for them will be a constant and perpetual punishment.
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a. Except for the one, who is able to eavesdrop and snatch a word of such knowledge,
b. he is instantaneously pursued by flaming fireballs.
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a. So ask them:
b. ‘Are they more difficult to be created, or those WE created others than them?
c. In fact, WE created them – the human species - out of mere sticky clay!
The preposition ‘min’ is semantically more complex than what the traditional lexicaAl-syntactic approaches held it to be adverb or adverbial of place and time. This paper attempts to investigate the semantic complexity of the preposition ‘min’ from cognitive linguistic perspective to find out its semantic classification and linguistic symmetric patterns. Data has been taken from the Quran to investigate the claim of conceptual metaphor theory that sensorimotor neural structures generates the preposition ‘min’ on the image schema of source-path-goal. The findings reveal that the source-pathgoal image schema is not only at work in the use of preposition ‘min’ in spatio-geometric sense, but also to map the abstract concepts, emotional states and relationship with supernatural entities in spatial terms in the Quran. However, the data also show idiosyncratic behaviour of preposition, attaining different semantic arguments in different linguistic contexts, which strengthen the argument that language use cannot be abridged to static mapping in the human conceptual system. This paper recommends future research on the same preposition or other prepositions to investigate further the source-path-goal image schema in the Quran and Arabic language.
The study is conducted to analyze and find out the main motivational factors which influence career selection
decision of the students. Career selection is a very complex issue and is influenced by various factors such as
personality traits, socializers', demographic, environmental and motivational factors etc. Motivational factors
are the most important, being these are the expectations of the students which they want to achieve while
adopting a particular career path. The study is helpful for career counseling and to facilitate the students to
select the career path that suit their traits & capabilities and enable them to achieve their goals & objectives. A
little mistake at this stage will destroy their future plans & happiness, will waste many years of expensive
education and they will not be able to reach at their destination.
The study is based on primary data collected through questionnaire survey from the students, studying in the
colleges & universities located in the vicinity of Rawalpindi & Islamabad, their parents and teachers. Twenty
one motivational factors are selected and the responses are measured on Likert five (5) points scale: strongly
agreed, agreed, indifference, disagreed, strongly disagreed.
The results indicate that 92.4% students have already selected their career paths and 60.0% students have
selected their career path/ profession by themselves. Parents play important role in deciding the career path
of the students and the career of 35.1% students have been / will be selected by their parents.