This issue contains 9 articles and 0 queries - scholarly writing, reader questions answered, and a continued record of the journal's ongoing concerns.
In the wee hours of 22nd April, Al-Mawrid lost its senior most research fellow: Abdus Sattar Ghauri. He was almost 80 years old. As the father figure of this institute, he was loved and cherished by e...
Ghauri sāhib was a rare man: down to earth, extremely polite, a devout believer, tolerant, friendly, and a genuine and devoted scholar of his field. He did a deal with His God to get an extension in l...
Received news from Dr Shehzad Saleem on 22nd of April that our dear and beloved Abdus Sattar Ghauri sāhib (b. 1935) had passed away. Ironically, I also received recording of a couplet by Hasan Ilyas a...
My talk had just finished and I was being greeted by some of the members of the audience. I saw him coming towards me with a smile and in a very gentle manner. He said al-salāmu ‘alaykum , and then ga...
Respected Abdus Sattar Ghauri was a significant intellectual figure in Islamic scholarship of Pakistan. He was a great teacher, educationist, researcher, and author. In academic circles, he was recogn...
There is a strangely arranged prophecy regarding the Prophet of Islam in a pseudepigraphical book attributed to Moses named ‘The Assumption of Moses’. 1 It was introduced to me by a worthy friend, Mr....
The Prophet of Islam (sws) never claimed that his teachings stemmed from his own ‘intellectual world’. The Qur’ān explicitly asserts: Even so We have revealed to thee a Spirit of Our bidding. Thou kne...
The alphabetical letters (consonants) are merely symbols of sound. No doubt the words are formed by placing the consonants together but they cannot be pronounced until some proper vocalization system...
Born in Patiala (India) in 1935, Abdus Sattar Ghauri migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and taught for several years after he completed his MA (Islamic Studies) and M Phil (EPM). He remained a member of the...
