aoa respected members do bring some useful suggestins as per this issue regarding islamic essay as the discussion here is already revealing how controversial attempt of such topics is....
@Sabah
i have heard the view abt such essays from some english css professors who discourage attempting islamic essays.anyhow as there is no hard and fast rule,by asking members' opinion i want to avoid those risky elements if i choose islamic essay in paper....

waiting for members' useful respond.
regards

hey, you all are scaring me, but, inshallah, I won't be in trouble waters.
we are having Islamic topics in essay to write on them and not to avoid them.

one should understand Islam beyond the sectarian divides. I love peace, and will defend peace. I love justice and will raise my voice for justice.

nothing is wrong with Islam, but it may be with Muslims.

looking forward for some encourging voices.
regards

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I do agree with you and presenting an example of such an essay on Islam. I am inviting all the people to analyze the article critically. Here is the link of that article:

http://www.cssforum.com.pk/general/n...e-justice.html


Kind Regards

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aoa no need to be scared if u r confident.i also believe i can nicely write on such issues but wantd to be aware of the risks outside......
if u have written something on any such issue,we ll be appriciate if u can shar w/ us.regards

aoa i tried to give an inclusive reading to ur article n fiund it really impressive.but if u are writing from paper point of view then i think there should be views from non muslims too(i hope i didn t miss that part if u did add in ur article) acknowledging the optimistic message of islam.good job anyhow.Regards

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thanks for your encourgement, and bundles of thanks for sharing relevent Quranic verses, your essay is well structured.

thanks kawish, am not scared, am now determined to go for it.

I will share my outline in a short, pass comments on it.

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Islam and West

• Introduction

• The genesis of Islam

• The far-reaching Message of Islam (Where there is no peace strive for it, where there is no justice deliver it)

• Islam towards other nations and people

• Pluralistic Muslim Empires of the Past (how Islam delivers)

• Muslim decadence (stereotype thinking, fundamentalism, extremism)

• Genesis of Western society (From dark age to their awakening)

• Revulsion from religion (Industrial Revolution, Church State Controversy over power)

• Operatives of modern Capitalist societies (Democracy defined by them, free market economy, search for new markets and oil reserves)

• Conspiracy Theories: (End of time, Clash of Civilization)

• Grievances of Muslim world, West must understand

• Conclusion: (How to ensure Peace: interfaith Dialogue, solutions of political issues, strict adherence to international law, awareness to remove clash of ignorance)

Introduction
Logicians argue that one should not pass a judgment on a thing unless one has a complete and clear understanding about it; because, Judgment without knowledge is either speculation or merely a sweeping generalization. The image of Islam portrayed by the West today has a similar story. Islam, as a religion, does not have an exclusive approach to Muslims only rather in its address it safeguards the rights of non-believers too. They never tried to understanding the message of Islam. They, In order to safeguard their political and economic interest, have annexed many political issues with the faith of Islam. Thus, ignorant of the Islamic principles of peace and justice, and its glorious history, the west has propounded many conspiracy theories against the Muslim world. World cannot be a safe place without resolving the long waited political issues...



Please comment about the outline and introduction.
is it a convincing start or.....

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@Sabah
aoa a cursory look at ur work reveals the inadequacy of argument in it.there should be obvious referance of some current clashes n thier causes etc.don't adopt a skewed approach.....
the introduction is good,try to begin it w/ some qoute.n lastly dear do add some verses n hadit,as no islamic essay is complete w/o such referances.
regards

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First of all I guess based on these lines your Essay would be too short, in fact it looks even less than half of what’s required.

The missing points from my thinking are,
the points of conflicts like, religious (they would be many may need 3-4 paragraphs), social (they too would be many, needing 3-4 paragraphs again), territorial, crusade wars (You need to mention crusade wars, Muslims conquests in Spain and eastern Europe, western colonization of Muslim countries, and present day wars, Iraq, afghan), economical (western control of Muslim’s economy, economical and territorial interests in middle east) You may also give famous quote of Bush about start of new crusades just after 9/11

You may also discuss how western and Muslim world can co-operate, may give suggestions fro improvement of relation. What you see in future about these civilizations from all point of views (economy, social, territorial)
And one more thing you should discuss both worlds side by side, you don’t need much to discuss those things of western world which don’t have any effect on Muslim world and vise versa, you should also discuss the increasing popularity of Islam in western world and may prove it by statistical figures.

Logicians argue that one should not pass a judgment on a thing unless one has a complete and clear understanding about it; because, Judgment without knowledge is either speculation or merely a sweeping generalization. May be this point goes against yourself in some way, I mean after reading this examiner will expect from you VERY SOUND knowledge of this issue and his expectations would increase too much from you as you have claimed that one should not pass judgment unless one has complete knowledge and understanding. And if you fail to come true to his increased expectations, this may go against you.

I told this all with good will and according to my understanding. You have the right to disagree.

Regards and best of luck for your exams

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I totally agree with you, and your points are relevant. thanks indeed for such a critical scrutiny.

all is becuase of the lack of practice, am worried about it. little time and lot to revise .......no time for max practice.

looking for some miracle on paper day. lolz.

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