Contemporary Challenges Regarding Muslim-Christian Dialogue and Its Solution in the Light of Nobel Sīrah of the Holy Prophet ﷺ

Islam recognizes the status and respect of other faiths and communities for socioeconomic and sociopolitical development. Therefore, the kind Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلمwas the first ever personality in the human history who accepted the identity of other faiths and involved them in state affairs of the city state of Madīnah in 610 CE/1AH. The citizens of the first Islamic State including Jews, Christians and Polytheists were treated as equal and respected citizens. The door of discussion and mutual cooperation were opened for all faiths and communities of the society. For that purpose, the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم set out some special parameters and principles of dialogue and interaction with other faiths. These principles may be freedom of religion, mutual respect and cooperation, interfaith tolerance, focus on common issues, active participation in state and social activities etc. The history is eye witness of this conduct that Muslim rulers and public care these principles and promote them in all ages of the Muslim governance. However due to some reason modern era have been observed of not being compatible with minorities in east as well as in the west. Categorically, they are having encounters with many difficulties, challenges and issues for security, rights and peaceful coexistence in all over the world. Unfortunately, Pakistan have also considered to be the part of hyper national and international sociological environment regarding minorities. In order to overcome these issues and challenges then we must follow the Prophet’s Seerahصلى الله عليه وسلم regarding interfaith dialogue and mutual cooperation in a pluralistic society like Pakistan. In this study, the efforts are made to explore contemporary challenges and its solution in light of the Seerah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلمfrom current sociopolitical context.

Inculcating Aspects of Fluency and Appropriacy for Enhancement of Oral Communication Skills Through Task-Based Instruction Tbi

This study explored the effectiveness of Task-Based Instruction (TBI) in enhancing students' fluency and appropriacy for oral communication skills (OCSs) as well as students' and teacher's perception about TBI at Government Boy's Model Primary School Rahmatpur, District Khairpur Mirs, Rural Sindh. The study involved Grade five students who were exposed to Task-Based Instruction approach involving them in task activities, placing an emphasis on functional use of language. The data was gathered through classroom observations, audio recording, semi-structured interviews, field notes, reflective journal and oral pre-test and post-test. Semi-structured interviews were conducted (before and after intervention) to explore the teacher's and students' perception about enhancement of OCSs and TBI approach. Oral pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention were also conducted to assess the improvement of the focused students in OCSs. Data was analyzed qualitatively to investigate the effectiveness of TBI approach in enhancing students' OCSs. The investigator expected that this study would demonstrate students' and English language teacher's general perceptions of Task-Based Instruction Findings of this study revealed positive impacts of TBI approach in enhancing students' fluency and appropriacy. This study also helped English language teacher in teaching OCSs. As a result, teacher took content from English text book and converted into task activities according to a task-based approach, so that students could participate in oral practice of language use actively and improve their oral communication skills.