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Muhammad - The Recipient of The Qur’an

Muhammad -
The Recipient of The Qur’an

Muhammad was the only child of his parents – Sayyed ‘Abd-Allah bin ‘Abd Al-Muttalib Al- Hashemi and Sayyedah Aminah bint Wahb Al-Zuhriyya. He was born in Makkah, a commercial metropolis and a pilgrims’ hub in the Arabian Peninsula. His father passed away before his birth, and the mother when he was six. A shepherd in early life and a successful merchant in adulthood, he married Sayyedah Khadijah bint Khuwaylid at the age of 25. The happy couple became the parents of two sons and four daughters.

Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah was reputed to be a friendly and trustworthy gentleman with an impeccable character. He was admired for his generosity as well as his wisdom. The mutually hostile factions often called upon him to act as an arbiter. At home, he was known for his caring and helpful attitudes.

As he was attaining maturity, he was getting deeply disturbed by the social and moral environment around him. He found the idolatry and fetishism unholy and social injustices distressing. He increasingly began to search for a response to his own agony at the injustice and chaos around him by resorting to meditation and seclusion. He would go away from home for several days in a row and stay in a small cave on Mount al-Noor, it is a cave hiding in shyness and seclusion with a difficult access, named Hira.

One midnight, during the last week of the month of Ramadan that the Cave lightened up. It witnessed the presence of rows over rows of angels led by the Arch Angel, Gabriel. Muhammad got bewildered. It brought him awe, fear and foreboding. It was an experience unique of its kind; unique...

مولانا سید زوار حسین شاہ کے تراجم: ایک تعارفی جائزہ

Hazrat Maulana Syed Zawwar Hussain Shah is the knowledgeable and spiritual personality of the fourteenth century Hijra. There are diverse aspects of his qualities and perfections. A matchless diversity can easily be found in his services related to his scholarly work and reformation of Muslim Ummah. Not only a Translator, Biographer or Poet but he, at the same time, was also an expert of Islamic Jurisprudence and held the position of a Sheikh of Islamic Sufi order of Naqshbandi Mujaddiah. Shah Sahib authored and compiled 13 books. The study of translated works ( Mabda wa Ma’ad, Muarif-e-Ludniya, Maktoobat-e-Masoomia, Maktoobat Imam Rabbani) of Shah Sahib's and discussion on its importance is the prime focus of this article.

Environmental Mainstreaming in Pakistan: A Public Policy Analysis for Environmental Assessment

Environmental mainstreaming requires the systematic integration of environmental concerns into all domains of governance, be they at the central level or sectoral, through assimilation into the decisions of institutions that develop national and local policies as well as into the practices of businesses and the value systems of individuals. To make this possible in traditional systems that have a natural tendency to prioritize development objectives over environmental conservation entails the challenge of institutional and cultural change. During these last five decades, Pakistan has gradually developed an adequate framework of environmental governance in the light of international instruments, but integrating environmental considerations into public policy, decision making, and development planning has still not been fully optimized, thus, leaving governance gaps that need to be identified, analyzed, and filled with proper solutions through environmental mainstreaming. The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to analyze the environmental management framework of Pakistan (policies/laws/institutions) through its evolution till its present state, highlight major gaps in this framework that serve as impediments to the goal of environmental mainstreaming and sustainable development in Pakistan, examine the present performance of this framework using case studies, and then to make recommendations to address the gaps based on the lessons learned. In-person interviews of stakeholders from within the environmental management framework of Pakistan as well as a corpus of books, journal articles, reports, and news events informed this study. This study concludes that despite having covered huge grounds over the last five decades, Pakistan, particularly after the 18th Constitutional Amendment which has taken us a few steps back, must improve its overall environmental governance through the creation of inter-ministerial policies, clarification of roles and responsibilities of environmental institutions at all levels along with an improvement in their capacities, adherence to environmental assessments, and through a more focused and effective political will. This cannot be done only at the governmental-level, and must also be a part of the manifestos of political parties and should be a part of the national curriculum from an early stage if the required cultural change is to take place, and there should be more cohesive coordination with NGOs. A lot needs to be done before the environment can be effectively mainstreamed in Pakistan. With the upcoming CPEC mega project which comprises numerous development projects that can have an adverse effect on the human environment in Pakistan, it is hoped that this study will play its part towards a required cultural change in Pakistan that will enable the Government and the people to pass through this promising phase of intensive development while preserving their environment, so that they can truly enjoy the benefits of development and economic prosperity, rather than rue the negative consequences of aggressively pursuing such goals in an ill-planned and irresponsible manner.
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