34. Saba/Sheba
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. The Praise and Gratitude is for Allah – the One and Only God of everyone and everything,
b. The One to WHOM belongs whatever is within the celestial realm and whatever is within the terrestrial world, and
c. the Praise be to HIM in the realm of the Hereafter.
d. And HE is All-Wise, All-Aware.
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a. HE Knows whatever goes into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and
b. whatever comes down from the heaven, and whatever goes up into it.
c. HE is The Compassionate, The Forgiving.
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a. And yet those who disbelieve say:
b. ‘The Last Hour will never come upon us.’
c. Say:
d. ‘Yes, indeed, it will!
e. By my Rabb - The Lord - The Knower of all that is beyond the reach of our senses and
perception,
f. it will certainly come upon you.
g. There is nothing even the weight of a speck in the celestial realm and the terrestrial world that escapes HIS Knowledge.
h. As also there is nothing even smaller than that or bigger but it is in a Clear Book.’
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a. Thus HE keeps track of everything so that HE may reward those who believe and practice righteousness.
b. It is they for whom will be forgiveness and a generous provision in the Paradise.
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a. As for those who challenge and strive against OUR Messages in the Qur’an,
b. seeking to undermine them and thwart their purpose,
c. those - for them will be a painful punishment...
This is not hidden from anyone familiar with Islamic laws, that in Islam the punishment for every person who enters the realm of Islam voluntarily and then turns away from Islam and returns to disbelief, is capital punishment (death penalty). From the earliest days of Islam, all the Companions, Followers, and all Islamic Jurists have improved the same, but at the end of the nineteenth century, many people who hated Islam refused to accept the punishment imposed by Islam due to various doubts. They have also challenged its legitimacy. As a result, two types of views on apostasy emerged. Some other scholars, at the endof the twentieth century, came with a third view on the punishment of apostasy. They neither deny the punishment of apostasy in general nor do they believe in it as the majority of scholars do. Therefore, in this article, we will briefly discuss these three types of views and their arguments, so that truth and falsehood become clear and no doubt remains in this matter.
Attitudes play a very significant role in acceptance of any idea or innovation. Prior research studies have established the significance of computers and the attitude of head teachers which can either be a hindering factor or a facilitator for computer integration in education. To explore the attitudes of the head teachers in the Pakistani context, this study was conceptualised. The major aim of the study was to determine the attitudes of head teachers from Sindh and Balochistan towards the use of computers in education, while the subsidiary aim was to explore the relationship between demographic characteristics of the participants and their attitude towards the use of computers in education. A survey questionnaire was adopted from Pelgrum and Plump (1993) to gather data. Through this tool, a sample of 185 head teachers was assessed for their computer attitudes with four factors; perceived educational impact, perceived social impact, training needs and self-confidence. The sample was drawn from the participants of the Educational Leadership and Management (ELM) course, offered as part of the Ed-Links project. The participants comprised a mix of rural and urban areas of Sindh and Balochistan. The results show that the participants' perceived attitude towards computers in education is positive. On individual sub-scales, participants' perceived social impact of computers and their self-confidence is found to be lower than the educational and training needs. Correlation analyses revealed significant associations between the head teachers' attitude towards computers in education and the use of computers and prior training. ln sub-scales model, prior training contributes to the training needs' model while use of computer, contributed to the self-confidence model. The study has highlighted the importance of providing computers to the head teachers in their offices and need for offering relevant training programmes for the head teachers and deputy heads from Sindh and Balochistan. A1so, further research is needed to understand the relationship between attitudes towards computers and its actual use in schools.