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ISLAMIYAT COMPULSORY
CSS 2013
An out line
Why Islamyiat
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CSS and Islamyiat
Islam and Islamyiat
Muslims and Islamyiat
We and Islamyiat
And Yours ????????
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Prescribed Books
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Course
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Four Parts
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1
 Part 2
 Part 3
 Part 4
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Basic Concepts
Aqaid and Ebadat
Islamic way of Life/Systems2
Contemporary Affairs of Islam
Weightage
 Objectives
 Translations
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Questions
10 or 20
10 or Zero
80 = 16 x 5
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1 or 2
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6 Basic Characteristics
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Option of language
6 Questions to Solve
Part- 1
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Basic Problems of Human Life and their Solutions
Various sources of knowledge-revelation (Wahy) as a
source of knowledge and solution to human problem.
Divinity and Supremacy of Wahy.
Need of Religion and its role in Human Life ,Islam and
other religions, Islam ,Its concept and meanings Deen
and Muzhab,
Place of Humanity in Islam, Man as Vicegerent of
Allah
Chief Characteristics of Islamic Ideology
Part 2-Fundamental Beliefs and Practices of
Islam
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Aqaid-Faiths
 Tauheed
(Unity of Allah),
 Risalat (Finality of the Prophet hood)
 Akhirat (Day of Judgment)
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Ebadat/Rituals
 Salat,
Soum
 Zakat, Hajj
 Jehad
Part 3-Islamic Way of Life
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Sources of Shariah: The Qu'ran, Sunnah, Ijma
(Consensus), Qiyas and Ijtihad (reasoning).
 Islamic Systems
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 Social
system in Islam, Morality in Islam Concept of
morality
 Islamic Political System
 Judicial System
Part-4 Contemporary Islamic Affairs
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Muslim Ummuh Role and objectives of Muslim
Ummah
 Compilation of Quran
 Jihad and Terrorism
 Concept of World, Quran and Science
 HR
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 Women
Rights
 Rights of Minorities
 General HR
Quranic Ayat and their Translation
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Following last 10 surrah of the Holy Quran with their translations
 SURRAH AL-FEEL
 SURRAH AL-QURESH
 SURRAH AL-MAOON
 SURRAH AL-KAUSAR
 SURRAH AL-KAFAROON
 SURRAH AN-NASR
 SURRAH AL-L'AHAB
 SURRAH- AL- AKHLAS
 SURRAH ALFALAK
 SURRAH-AN-NAS
Note- Question did not appear in CSS-2011
‫‪CSS 2012 Paper‬‬
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‫عقیدہ آخرت سے کیا مراد ہے ؟ انسانی زندگی پر اس کےاثرات‬
‫ان صالۃ تنھی عن الفحشاء ولمنکر کی روشنی میں نماز کے فوائد اور‬
‫اثرات بیان کیجیۓ‬
‫اسالم کا سیاسی نظام فالحی ریاست کی ضمانت دیتا ہے ۔وضاحت‬
‫کیجیۓ‬
‫جدید تہذیب و تمدن کا نقطہ نظر بیان کرتے ہوۓ مسلم امہ پر اس کے‬
‫اثرات بیان کیجیۓ‬
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‫اسالم ایک مکمل ضابطہ حیات ہے ۔ بحث کیجیۓ‬
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‫خطبہ حجتہ الوداع کی روشنی میں اسالم میں انسانی حقوق واضح کریں‬
‫اسالم کے اقتصادی قوانین کی وضاحت اجتماعی عدل کی روشنی میں بیان‬
‫کیجۓ‬
‫انسان کے لیۓ مذہب کی ضرورت اور اہمیت کو بیان کرتے ہوۓ انسانی‬
‫زندگی پر اس کے اثرات واضح کریں‬
‫شریعت سے کیا مراد ہے ؟ شریعت کے مختلف ماخذ بیان کریں‬
‫قرآن کی جمع و تدوین پر تفصیالً بحث کیجیۓ‬
CSS Paper 2011
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Q.2 To follow an ideal is very necessary for the
progress of nation. In your view what are basic
characteristic of ideal and how Islamic ideology of
life affects the individual and communal life with
reference to basic characteristic of Islamic ideology?
Elucidate.
Q.3 what is meant by civilization and culture and how
it effects collective life and also analyzes the
foundation of modern civilization and highlights the
problems caused by it?
Cont…
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Q.4 Discuss the concept of veil and freedom of woman
from Islamic point of view while analyzing the law against
veil in France
Q.5 it is necessary to establish priority of law for the
development of society. What is your point of view that
today Islamic punishments are regarded as Savagery?
While discussing the Islamic philosophy of the reward and
punishment also describe the basic characteristic of Islamic
concept of punishments
Cont…
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Q.6 it is the period of basic human rights. What is meant
by human rights and what is a western concept of human
right, discuss human rights of Islam in the light of the
sermon of Hajjatul Widah.
Q.7 In the present period the Muslim Ummah is facing
different problems and for the solution of these problem
“ijtehad” is necessary, so point out such an institution that
can offer solution of the new problems with the help of
Ijtehad
Cont…
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Q.8 Discuss in detail the importance of Akle-Halal
form Islamic pint of view and explain how unfair
resources can be checked in the light of Islamic
teachings?
Q.9 In the present era, Muslim Ummah has all the
resources, but it is the victim of disunity, while
analysis the reasons of disunity, suggest measures to
maintain unity amount the Muslim Ummah
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ROLE AND NEED FOR DEEN
(MAZHAB KI ZAROORAT)
By: Muhammad Ali Khan
Difference b/w Deen and Mazhab
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Concept
 Frame of Reference
 Canvas
 In religious connotation (Al-Kafiroon, Ale-Imran
19, Al-Maida 30)
 Nature (Individual and Collective)
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Two Theories of Evolution of Religion
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Islamic Point of View
7 Stages _Evolution of Religion
 Atheism
 Worshiping
 Fear
the Nature
and Greed
 Totoism
 Worshiping
 Idolatry
 Monotheism
 Of
Future
the Elders (Past)
Concept
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Religion as a “binding together” (Latin, religio, from
the verb religare = “to bind together”
Religion is a relationship between the religious
devotee and that which is the object of religious
devotion (the gods, God)a relationship that binds the
two together.
Binding together of all those who share the same or
similar religious attitudes
Bound together with the object of its devotion the
gods, etc
Religion is all about rituals and Faiths
Gods
 Allah
 Shiva
 Budhh
 Zeus
 Aherman
 Yazdan
Experiences
 Love/Ecstasy
 Nothingness
 Hell/Heaven
 Sacrifice
Beliefs
Death
Immortality
Atonement
Fate
Prayer
Spirits : Demons, Ancestors, Ghosts
Practices
(rituals)
 Prayers
 Meditation
 Fasting
 Alms
 Youga
DEEN
Lots of Ins and Outs and What-Have-Yours
Deen is neither a single phenomenon, nor a “thing”
rather, it is a divine and dynamic collection of
institutions, practices, beliefs and social order
What's our Religion ?
Attempts at a Definition
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Edward Tylor
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Clifford Geertz
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“The belief in spiritual beings.”
“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish
powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and
motivations with such an aura of factuality that the moods
and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
Emile Durkheim
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“A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices
relative to sacred things”
Attempts at a Definition
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Melford Spiro
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Peter Berger
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“Religion is an institution consisting of culturally patterned
interaction with culturally postulated superhuman beings.”
“Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that
includes within it all being—human or
Max Weber
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Refused to attempt a definition of religion. [Smart Man?]
Concept
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Spirituality
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Emotion Ethics
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EB Taylor ( Social)
Mathew Arnold
(Literature)
Emotional Appeal to
accept Almighty
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Freud (Psychology)
Only Rituals ?
 Humanity
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Need of Religion/Deen
Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained (2001)
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Religion Provides Explanations
 People created religion to explain puzzling natural
phenomena
 Religion explains puzzling experiences: dreams,
forethought, etc
 Religion explains the origins of things
 Religion explains why there is evil and suffering
Need of Religion/Deen
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Religion provides comfort
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Religious explanations make mortality less unbearable
Religion allays anxiety and makes for a comfortable
world
Need of Religion/Deen
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Religion provides social order
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Religion holds society together
Religion perpetuates a particular social order
Religion supports morality
Cont…
Religion is a cognitive approach
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People are superstitious; they will believe anything
Religious concepts are irrefutable and Refutation is
more difficult than belief
Need of Religion
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All civilizations have its
Religions
Great civilizations are not
died, they attempt suicide
All social system requires
religion
Religion and Science
Good & Bad given by Religion
Guidance to Wisdom
Religion as Change Agent for
Natural, Spiritual, social needs
Cont…
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Universal peace v/s
materialistic development
(survival of the fittest is
questioned)
Life after death –
possibility only in religion
Accountability here and in
life after death
Religion for Social
Correction , Reformist
movements
Religion as Panacea
Liberal Arguments for need of Deen /Religion
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August Comte
 Theological (Religion)
 Metaphysical (Philosophy and Psychology)
 Positive Stage (Science)
Napoleon says “It has kept the poor murdering the rich”
Supernatural hope in dooms hopes (Imam Jaffar RA)
When humans are unknowing and confused they make theories in
order to solve things. theories are usually proven false and it takes
generations to believe the proof
Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well if one goes up other goes
down
Religion Rich in Miracle system and myths is needed
Epilogue
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Even rationalism w/o religion will be blunder
 As long as there is poverty these will be gods
 Evolution. Nature -law of nature
 First force. If events are due to natural cause
then what is super natural cause
 God is a beautiful manifestation of human
wishes
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An other view
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The process of modernization and change
Modern thought
The attitude of scientific reason
 The doctrine of philosophical naturalism
 The philosophy of secular humanism
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Science and technology in the modern world
The problem of meaning in modern culture
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Status of Man
Insan ka Mansb-e-Khilafat
Concept
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Five Dimensions of Status
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Human_Insan
Fit of The Fittest-Ashraf-ul-Makhloqat
Vicegerent -(Socio-Religious)
Khalifa (Political)
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Only of Adam (Baqra-30)
To Messangers /Daud ( Suaad 26)
Nation by Nation ( Noor-55)
All Human beings (Ibn-Kaser+Moudodi)
Aadmi (Biological)
Status of man (Insan ka Maqam)
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Establishment of status before creation
Intension of Creation by Allah
High Ranke given after Creation
Advocacy of Human by Allah
Distinction in Creation_Created by Hands of Allah
(Suaad-75)
Created as Fit of the Fitness/Ahsan-e-Taqweem
Superiority of Knowledge
Prostration of Angels but Iblees
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Creation of Iblees when he disobey to prostrate Adam
Heaven ,first Residence /Dwelling Place
Everything is created for him
Everything created is given in man’s ownership
Created man with Choices (Aaraf 10)
Respect given to man by Allah (Maaida 32)
Due respect ought to be paid to humanity
Tauheed, to avoid any negativity
Equality- if its there ?
Rationales of Khalafat/Naib/Vicegerent
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Sovereignty lies with Allah and all Powers are trust
 Quran as Supreme Law
 Accountable to Allah for the Powers given on Earth
 No Absolute Rule
 Rule given for limited time span
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A thought !
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Is religion possible without GOD ?
 Is religion a cause to recognize the GOD
 Will religion end when human beings will reach at
Heaven or Hell ?
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Hazrat Ali (RA) said
“Mein ny apny Khuda ko apny eradon k totny
sy pahchana”
( I recognized my God , when my intentions doomed)
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