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About Al-Mawrid
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| Al-Mawrid
is a unique institute that envisions the revival and perpetuation
of the rich intellectual heritage of the Muslim Ummah.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century Hijrah, this
institution owes its establishment to the perception that
the process of attaining the true understanding of Islam
is not being carried out in our Ummah in a judicious and
appropriate manner. Lost in the maze of sectarian prejudices
and political wrangling, the true message of Islam based
only on the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah has become
alien to the Muslims. The Holy Qur’an, which is
the basis of Islam, is only being used for recitation
and committal to memory. No longer is it resorted to for
guidance toward moral reformation and intellectual development
of the Ummah, and we have been deprived of the tremendous
motivation which could have been obtained only from it.
In religious seminaries, those disciplines have become
an end in themselves which could at best serve as a means
toward understanding the Holy Qur’an. |
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| The entire
corpus of Hadith literature has been isolated and severed
from its roots in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah,
and the real stress is now laid on the indoctrination
of the principles and tenets of a particular sect and
on proving its superiority over the others. |
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| Al-Mawrid
has been established to readdress and reform this state
of affairs. Hence, the objectives of the Institute are
to conduct and facilitate academic and research work on
Islamic Sciences, to educate people on its basis and to
publish and disseminate it through all available means.
The salient features, of the strategy adopted to achieve
these objectives; are |
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Research and Academics
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- To award fellowship to established intellectuals,
who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship and
are accredited with academic work of original and
seminal value, and whose personalities and works are
widely acclaimed across the board among scholars.
- To award project based affiliation to scholars
considered equal to the project(s) identified by the
Institute or proposed by the personnel themselves
and approved by the Institute.
- To provide necessary environment to facilitate
the work of Fellows and scholars, which includes maintenance
of library and provision of other requisite logistics.
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Education and Training
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- To arrange short courses, seminars and workshops
on religious subjects.
- To develop Distance Leaning Courses for online
education.
- To set up training centers, and established educational
institute of religious and worldly sciences.
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Communication and Dissemination
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- To publish Islamic Research Journals in Urdu, Arabic
and English
- To setup websites of the Institute in Urdu, Arabic
and English
- To published works of the academic personnel attached
with the Institute and produce their lectures etc.
in audio/video cassettes and also on compact discs.
- To introduce, on an extensive basis, the works
of the researchers and scholars associated with the
Institute.
- To focus special efforts on the widespread introduction
of the Institute and its objectives.
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| Following
is a list of the research projects that the Institute
has planned: |
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- Translation and exegesis of the Holy Qur’an
under the title al-Bayan
- Explanation of the contents of Islam at a scholarly
level under the title Mizan.
- Mufradat-ul-Qur’an (Diction, vocabulary and
terms of the Holy Qur’an).
- Arab-ul-Qur’an (Inflexions of the words of
the Holy Qur’an).
- Asalib-ul-Qur’an (Linguistic style of the
Holy Qur’an)
- Alm-ul-Qur’an (Proper names of the Holy Qur’an)
- Tarikh-ul-Qur’an (History of the compilation
and preservation of the Holy Qur’an).
- Exposition of the major themes of the Judeo-Christian
Scriptures.
- Recompilation of the Hadith and Athar literature
with explanation therefore.
- Biography of the Holy Prophet (pbuh)
- Biographies of the Companions (rta) of the Holy
Prophet (pbuh).
- History of the Muslims.
- Investigation of important and controversial Ahadith
and various religious viewpoints.
- Comparative study of the Farahi school of thought.
- Analysis and critique of contemporary views and
ideologies.
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