شریعت اسلامی میں رسم و رواج کے ساتھ تعامل کا جائزہ: مختلف اسلامی ادوار کی روشنی میں

Customs and traditions have a significant role in the social set up of every society. These customs project a picture of its culture, manners, beliefs, mental inclinations and life style. For social advancement, it is necessary for a nation to take reformative steps with respect to changing situations. They should adopt the customs that are productive and avoid the harmful ones. It has been a ground reality that the progressive nations have got the leading position having modifying their customs and traditions, while those who have been conservative are backward in the global race restricting on their outdated norms and so called customs.  In the prestigious age of the Holy Prophet (BPUH) and his followers, various laws and principles were formulated for the uplift of society, which provided a broad based concept of “custom”. The Islamic jurists have taken the custom as a source of Islamic legislation. In the article under reference, custom has been highlighted with respect to Islamic thoughts in various ages of Islamic history in a number of recommendations have been presented in order to uplift the society and to aware the Muslim theologians and Muftees accordingly.

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This dissertation explores metaphysical elements in Urdu Ghazal from its beginning to the creation of Pakistan. Deccani period, the period of far-fetched conceit (eehaam), the period of Meer and Sauda, the period of Ghalib and the period of modern poetry exhibit metaphysical elements specifically. Under the umbrella of metaphysics, the traces of ontology, cosmology and psychology in Pakistani Ghazal are discussed referentially in this dissertation. The ontological topics of being, attributes, transcendence, eminence, reality, form, revelation and prophet hood; the cosmological concerns like the creation of universe, thought, wonder, mortality, immortality, world of forms; the general metaphysical concepts like death, the grave, the resurrection, paradise and hell, and the psychological aspects like human being, soul, heart, ethics, destiny of man, prayer, free will, predestination, beauty and amour are analyzed in the perspective of Pakistani Ghazal. In Pakistani Ghazal, Hafeez Jalandhri, Abdul Hameed Adam, Hafeez Hoshiarpuri, Yousuf Zafar, Majeed Amjad, Ihsan Danish, Raees Amrohawi, Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, Ja'far Tahir, Mohib Arifi, Munir Niazi, Nasir Kazimi, Abdul Aziz Khalid, Tauseef Tabassum, Wasif Ali Wasif, John Ailiye, Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Khurshid Rizwi, Muhammad Izhar ul Haq, Jaleel Aali, Sarwat Husain and Saood Usmani are prominent for their metaphysical elements in their poetry. The works of above mentioned poets are discussed and analyzed in this dissertation chronologically.