URDU-PREACHING ACTIVITIES IN SINDH IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES (AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SOME IMPORTANT, PREACHING, RELIGIOUS AND PUBLISHING HOUSES OF SINDHI LANGUAGE)

عصر حاضر میں سندھ میں دعوتی سرگرمیاں سندھی زبان کے اہم دعوتی و دینی اور اشاعتی اداروں کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ

Abstract

Sindh has honour of being a gateway of Islam wherefrom the light of this universal religion spread throughout the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. Since Islam preached fraternity and human equality and caters to the natural needs of human beings, it was warmly received by siddhi folk after the conquest of Sindh in 712 A.D. It was Islam that ushered an era of intellectual activity based on flourishing the very message of Islam by way of publishing religious literature and spreading it all the Sindh around. Most of the population of Sindh speaks reads and writes in Sindhi, thus, keeping in view the importance of the some, a good enough number of publishing houses has come into being whose contribution in publishing books, magazines, journals etc on Islam and Seerat is, in fact, a proud asset of Sindhi Language. It is because of this environment, so-called ethnic and nationalistic elements badly failed to get themselves on sound footings. As a result of this, Sindh, in modern times presents a beautiful outlook of Islam. This paper covers only a few publishing houses of Sindh, which, inter-alia, publish Islamic books on a larger scale. Amongst them, Sindh National Academy, Sindhica Academy, Hkimat-e-Quran Institute, Mehran Academy Shikarpur, Aiwan-e-Ilm-o-Adab Kandhkot, and Sindhi section of Da’wah Academy Islamabad stand at the top. The contribution of these Publishing Houses, their origin, thoughts, and impact on the overall religious environment of Sindh has also been touched in a comprehensive manner. At the end of this paper, a detailed list of findings has been given which recommends accelerated efforts of preaching Islam in Sindh on even more rational grounds.