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Al-Mawrid is a unique institution that envisions the revival and perpetuation
of the rich intellectual heritage of the Muslim Ummah. At the beginning of the
fifteenth century Hijrah, this institution owes its establishment to the
perception that the process of attaining the true understanding of Islam is
not being carried out in our Ummah in a judicious and appropriate manner. Lost
in the maze of sectarian prejudices and political wrangling, the true message
of Islam based only on the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah has become alien to the
Muslims. The Holy Qur’an, which is the basis of Islam, is only being used for
recitation and committal to memory. No longer is it resorted to for guidance
toward moral reformation and intellectual development of the Ummah, and we
have been deprived of the tremendous motivation, which could have been
obtained only from it. In religious seminaries, those disciplines have become
an end in themselves which could at best serve as means toward understanding
the Holy Qur’an.
The entire corpus of Hadith literature has been isolated and
severed from its roots in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah, and the real stress
is now laid on the indoctrination of the principles and tenets of a particular
sect and on proving its superiority over the others.
Al-Mawrid has been established to redress and reform this
state of affairs. Hence, the objectives of the Institute are to conduct and
facilitate academic and research work on Islamic Sciences, to educate people
on its basis and to publish and disseminate it through all available means.
The salient features, of the strategy adopted to achieve these objectives,
are:
Research and Academics
I. To award Fellowship to established intellectuals, who have demonstrated
excellence in scholarship and are accredited with academic work of original
and seminal value, and whose personalities and works are widely acclaimed
across the board among scholars.
II. To award project based affiliation to scholars considered equal to the
project(s) identified by the Institute or proposed by the personnel themselves
and approved by the Institute.
III. To provide necessary environment to facilitate the work of Fellows and
scholars, which includes maintenance of library and provision of other
requisite logistics.
Education and Training
I. To arrange short courses, seminars and workshops on religious subjects.
II. To develop Distance Learning Courses for online education.
III. To help train and induct fresh apprentices, assistants, and scholars for
the planned projects.
Communication and Dissemination
I. To publish Islamic Research Journals in Urdu, Arabic and English.
II. To set up websites of the Institute in Urdu, Arabic and English.
III. To publish works of the academic personnel attached with the Institute
and produce their lectures etc. in audio/video cassettes and also on compact
discs.
IV. To introduce, on an extensive basis, the works of the researchers and
scholars associated with the Institute.
V. To focus special efforts on the widespread introduction of the Institute
and its objectives.
AL-MAWRID
Institute of Islamic Sciences
51 K Model Town Lahore Pakistan
Ph: 92-42-583 4306, 92-42-586 5145 Fax: 92-42-586
4856
URL: http://www.almawrid.org/ email: almawrid@brain.net.pk
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