الإعجاز البلاغي في قصة إبراهيم عليه السلام

The topic, "Eloquence of the Discourse in the Narrative of Ibrāhīm” is selected to meet the desire to examine the Quranic eloquence of the selected discourse. The Quranic narrative is selected for the present study for its significant position in the Quranic text. Most of its artistic elements are based on the Quranic rhetorical inimitability. In Sūrah Shua‘rā’, there are the famous dialogues of Ibrāhīm with the polytheists. He invites his nation to abandon the worship of different gods and pay their adoration to the One and the Only God: the Sustainer of the worlds. Then, comes his invocation (Du‘ā) for himself, his nation and for the Prophet Muḥammad (S. A. W). Also, this article discusses the condition of the polytheists and their dispute with their leaders in the hell, those leaders, who diverted them from the right path. The article discusses the narrative, and studies the Quranic eloquence of the discourse in the story of Ibrāhīm. It shows how the Qur’ān deals with the said story from Rhetoric, syntactic and morphological point of view.

The Impact of Organizational Culture on the Employees Job Satisfaction & Organizational Commitment: A Comparative Study of Faculty Members of Private & Public Sector University of Pakistan

The purpose of this research was to scrutinize whether organizational culture affects the employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment of university faculty in Public and Private Sector of Pakistan. Faculty members are one of the most important determinants and leading factors that determine the success of universities in a competitive environment. This is empirically true for educational organizations which determine the fate and career of the masses. The questionnaire was used to accumulate data. Prior pilot study was conducted and validity and reliability of questionnaire was determined before using it for data collection. Participants in this study were university faculty members of four universities along with its campuses throughout Pakistan; namely, Iqra University, Hamdard University, Sindh University and Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur. Two universities were in private sector while remaining two universities were in public sector respectively. Total six hundred questionnaires were sent through mail and personal visits. Before commencement of the analysis, the data for all items 400 cases were analyzed for missing values. Pearson correlations indicated that organizational culture was positively related to employees’ job satisfaction in the faculty members of private sector universities of Pakistan, and negatively in the faculty members of public sector universities of Pakistan. Whereas, organizational culture was positively related to organizational commitment in the faculty members of private sector universities of Pakistan, and negatively in the faculty members of public sector universities of Pakistan. The findings supported the importance of organizational culture to foster a positive impact in the faculty members of both private and public sector universities of Pakistan in order to attain employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment.