Dr Arshad Munir

• PhD(Islamic Studies)
• Director and Assistant Professor at Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria

Marriage is a social and spiritual commitment, moral safeguard and religious duty for a spouse. It is a fact that marriage is an Islamic way to protect a Muslim from evil and sinful acts. Actually, this is a religious obligation, whose completion is necessary for the partner with happiness, like all other responsibilities are essential to accomplis...

Honor Killing is a painful act for the entire humanity. That is why, this criminal and exploitive action is hated both socially and religiously. It is such a fact, which cannot be denied that in most of the cases the woman has been the biggest target of this brutal tradition. Generally, the woman who does not follow the so ‫ـ‬ called social and cul...

Apposite use of prenatal care ensures the avoidance of potential medical impediments and help to maintain mother and neonatal health. Although the rate of maternal and neonatal mortality in South Asia especially in Pakistan are reducing but when we compare Pakistan with the regional countries it’s still alarmingly high. The aim of this study was to...

The determination of the Mystic (Sufi) is to the effort towards unity. The main purpose of Sufi is to bring humanity, separated as it is into so many different units, closer together in the deeper understanding of life. Their mission is to bring about brotherhood among races, nations and faiths and to respect one another's faith, scripture and teac...

In contemporary era, when world has become a global village, the nations, faiths and communities are more in need of better relationship, tolerance and peace than any other phase of the human history. Therefore, interfaith dialogue has become a most significant activity in this age of the conflict and clash. Due to its importance, many religious, n...

Violence is an obscuring threat to the norm of the world, specifically, when it is practiced against women. A woman, in the man dominant society is categorized as a mediocre entity. This bigotry can be observed everywhere, irrespective of country, tradition, class, income, education and age. There is no society that is free of the blame of violence...

Islam is such a religion that protects rights of human beings in every aspect of their lives. It establishes the rules to put one's life in the great order, from the social and economical norms to the family norms, for example, and orders Muslims follow them. This religion tells one, how to approach the best way of an organized lifestyle?, and ther...

Islam considers human psyche and introduces the great Sunnah of Nikah or marriage to prevent them following prohibited ways to reproduce their race. This religion sets up the standards to the righteous and socially acceptable as well as respectable ways of living of two people (spouse) together peacefully to continue their life. Human beings have b...

Agricultural extension services transfer new technologies from research and other sources to the farmers for enhancing the production that ultimately contributes to alleviate poverty. Rural women play a key role in agricultural sector and its productivity. The current study was undertaken to identify the need of rural women for agricultural extensi...

In the days of ignorance (i.e. before entering of Islam), women had not specific rights of equality to men. They were in the worst condition, and treated like animals. The gender bias was at its extreme, and, it prevailed to such an extent that this creature (woman) was not even accepted as a human being. It was hypothesized and believed that a wom...

In the days of ignorance (i.e. before entering of Islam), women had not specific rights of equality to men. They were in the worst condition, and treated like animals. The gender bias was at its extreme, and, it prevailed to such an extent that this creature (woman) was not even accepted as a human being. It was hypothesized and believed that a wom...

January first 2014, Nigeria became one hundred years after the popular 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates by Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard. The centenary commemoration of the Nigerian State generated very serious scholarly attention than any other issues in the annals of Nigerian history. While scholars channels energy in writi...

The research paper aims at to analyze and determine the role and scope of religion for maintaining peace and harmony all across the world. We can state without exaggeration that Religion is positive factor for it goes a long way to maintain peace and invoke harmony and integration for humanity. A brief glance at the religions of the world reveals t...

This paper reflects an introduction and critical analysis of a custom called Vani. It is widely practiced with diverse names in different areas of Pakistan. This ancient tradition is tied to blood feuds among the various tribes and clans, where the females are forcibly married to the members of different tribes for the dispute settlement. Habituall...

If husband says to his wife, "you are banned/prohibited to me, akin to my mother or sister, and or you are comparable to my mother or sister". If the intention of the husband by these words was not meant to divorce his wife, then this act is termed as Zihar in Islam, otherwise divorce. He would now be bound to expiate before having sex with his wif...

Independent and transparent judicial system along with economic and political freedom is prerequisite for transforming a subsistence society into dynamic one. It is universally admitted that low cost and in time provision of justice is basic human right. However, there exist certain geographic frontiers like tribal areas of Pakistan where these hum...