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.

رسول اللہ ﷺ کی عمال کودی گئی ہدایات کی روشنی میں گڈ گورننس کے اصول۔تحقیقی جائزہ

The Prophet (peace be upon him) appointed different governors from his companions in different areas as well as gave different instructions for governing and running the state. Same like Hazrat Ali from Najran ,Usaman Ibn Al-As from Taif,Khalid Bin Saeed from Kindah and Ziyad Bin Labeed(May Allah blessed them) from Hadhramaut etc. The most famous among these instructions is that were given to Hazrat Ma'ad ibn Jabal (RA). But these are scattered in different books of Hadith. In this thesis these instructions are compiled.So we could know that what is the rules of Islamic good governance. And also discussed that in which cities they sent and also discussed the geographical and historical details of those cities.