Mishkat-ul-Ilm

سماجی ہم آہنگی کے صوفیانہ مسالک: برصغیر میں تصوف کا کردار

Hafiza Mahgul — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Islamic Sufism has played a significant role in promoting social harmony across the Indian subcontinent. Through an emphasis on tolerance, love, spiritual equality, and service to humanity, Sufi teachings functioned as a unifying force within the region’s religiously and culturally diverse societies. Prominent Sufi figures such as Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Baba Farid Ganj Shakar, Nizamuddin Auliya, Data Ganj Bakhsh, and Lal Shahbaz Qalandar contributed to the cultivation of social cohesion through their spiritual guidance, ethical conduct, and inclusive outreach. Sufi institutions, particularly khanqahs and shrines, emerged as vital spaces of communal interaction, providing spiritual solace while fostering intercommunal engagement beyond distinctions of caste, creed, or social status. By prioritizing divine love, humility, and selfless service, Sufism encouraged religious coexistence and nurtured a shared moral and cultural ethos. This study argues that Sufism not only facilitated peaceful interreligious relations in the subcontinent but also contributed to the formation of enduring social bonds grounded in common spiritual values, thereby reinforcing social harmony in a pluralistic context.

عدم برداشت کے بڑھتے ہوئے رجحانات کے معاشرتی اسباب قرآن مجید کی روشنی میں :تحقیقی جائزہ

Javeria Rehman — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This research examines the growing trends of intolerance in contemporary society in the light of the Qur’an. Intolerance has emerged as a serious social problem, leading to division, conflict, and moral decline. The study identifies major social causes of intolerance such as ignorance, arrogance, prejudice, blind imitation, misuse of religion, injustice, and the lack of moral and spiritual values. By analyzing relevant Qur’anic verses, the research highlights how the Qur’an strongly condemns intolerance, extremism, and unjust behavior, and instead promotes patience, wisdom, justice, dialogue, respect for human dignity, and social harmony. The study adopts a qualitative and analytical approach, drawing evidence from Qur’anic teachings to demonstrate that intolerance is not only a social deviation but also a moral and spiritual crisis. The research concludes that the Qur’an provides comprehensive guidance for addressing the root causes of intolerance and for establishing a balanced, tolerant, and peaceful society based on justice, mercy, and mutual respect.

صحیح مسلم کی ” کتاب الرویا “کی نفسیاتی عکاسی:جدید نیوروسائنس کی روشنی میں تجزیاتی مطالعہ

Asifa Habib — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The chapter on dreams (Kitāb al-Ru’yā) in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim constitutes one of the most systematic classical Islamic treatments of oneiroscopy, dream taxonomy, and the epistemological status of veridical dreams (ru’yā ṣādiqah). This study undertakes a interdisciplinary re-examination of these narrations through the lens of twenty-first-century affective and cognitive neuroscience, including rapid eye movement (REM) sleep architecture, threat-simulation theory, memory consolidation models, predictive processing frameworks, and the role of the default mode network in self-referential and prophetic cognition.By mapping key ḥadīths — such as the tripartite classification of dreams (from Allah, from Satan, and from the self’s subconscious discourse), the physiological signs of true dreams, and their occurrence predominantly in the latter part of the night — onto recent neuroscientific data concerning dream generation, emotional regulation, and metacognitive insight during sleep, the research identifies striking convergences as well as productive tensions. Particular attention is given to the Islamic emphasis on dreams as a form of attenuated revelation (one-forty-sixth part of prophethood) and how this correlates with contemporary findings on exceptional autobiographical memory, lucid dreaming, and the heightened activation of temporo-parietal and prefrontal regions in spiritually significant dream states.Rather than reducing one tradition to the other, the study proposes a dialogical model in which pre-modern Islamic dream hermeneutics and modern neuroscience mutually illuminate the psychospiritual architecture of human consciousness. The findings suggest that the Muslim scholarly tradition anticipated several mechanisms now corroborated by polysomnography and fMRI studies, while simultaneously preserving a transcendent dimension that remains outside the current empirical paradigm.

عصرِ حاضر میں مستضعفین کے مسائل اور ان کا حل شریعت کی روشنی میں:ایک تحقیقی جائزہ

Mishal Sadiqa — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In an age marked by unprecedented economic disparity, digital marginalization, climate-induced displacement, and systemic oppression, the Qur’anic category of al-mustad‘afin (the weakened, disenfranchised, and powerless) has assumed renewed urgency. This study re-examines the lived realities of contemporary mustad‘afin ranging from refugees and low-wage migrant workers to debt-trapped households, victims of algorithmic bias, and communities crushed by neo-colonial debt structures through the integrated lens of classical and modern Islamic juridical, ethical, and socio-economic sources.Drawing upon the Qur’anic imperatives of ‘adl and ihsan, the Prophetic model of socio-economic justice, and the rich fiqh tradition concerning the rights of the poor (haqq al-faqr), the rights of the stranger (haqq al-gharib), and the obligation of collective redress (farḍ kifayah al-ta‘awun), the research identifies structural parallels between historical and present-day forms of istid‘af. It critically evaluates existing Islamic financial tools (Zakat, waqf, qarḍ hasan, micro-takaful) and proposes adaptive, Shariah-compliant mechanisms including sovereign Zakat funds, digital waqf platforms, blockchain-based transparent aid distribution, and community-driven cooperative enterprises that can effectively empower the mustad‘afin without compromising their dignity or agency.Far from offering mere charity, the study presents an actionable framework rooted in the maqasid al-shari‘ah paradigm, wherein the protection and upliftment of the mustad‘afin is reframed as a non-negotiable religious and civilizational imperative. By bridging classical jurisprudence with twenty-first-century realities, the research contends that a revitalized Islamic socio-economic ethos remains uniquely capable of dismantling systemic weakness and restoring the mustad‘afin to their divinely ordained station of strength and honour.

Banditry Insecurity in Contemporary Nigeria: A Threat to the Legacy of Sokoto Caliphate

Fatima Lawal Bako, Maryam Aminu, Amina Sada, Laila Muhammad — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study examines the menace of banditry in the legacy of Sokoto Caliphate, a region known for its rich history and Islamic heritage. Banditry, characterized by violent crimes such as kidnapping, extortion, and robbery, has become a significant threat to the security and stability of the area. The study highlights the consequences of banditry on the legacy of Sokoto Caliphate, including the incapacitation of the Sarauta system, destruction of peaceful coexistence among tribes, and disruption of economic activities. It also explores the security tips employed by the Sokoto Caliphate, including spiritual and practical approaches, and argues that banditry is unlawful in Islam and contradicts the ethics of Sokoto Caliphate. The study concludes that the legacy of Sokoto Caliphate is threatened by the advances of banditry and any form of insecurity like Boko Haram, and calls for a comprehensive approach to address the root causes of insecurity in the region.