The Role of Islamic Universities in translating the books of Aqeeda: The Case of translating Arabic Aqeeda books into Urdu A Comparative Study with other Universities

Abstract

Islam is the only religion that guarantee true guidance, peace and satisfaction for humanity. Aqeeda is the main source of pushing humanity to peace, satisfaction and good deeds. Aqeeda puts stormy, tiding and of peerless effects over the cognitive, imaginative and social domains. It was the dogma that put human to bow to manmade stones. And it was the aqeeda that enforced the human to demolish all the stone made deities.  It was the dogma that compelled human to slaughter his sons and daughter for false gods. It was the Aqeeda that raised the human from humiliation to such a high status where on single ‘sigh’ the heaven tremble, the angles rush, the water gives way, the fierce animals guard human.

Translating the books that contain Islamic Aqeeda, is the need of the time. This serious text transfer activity needs bilingual scholars with both language and subject knowledge competencies to render the Aqeeda text of critical and serious nature, carefully faithfully, with all its depths and pros and cons.

In Pakistan various universities have established departments of Islamic Studies and Arabic with the view to render various Arabic books into Urdu languages either to meet the needs of the students or to aware the public.  The research is focused on the books translated by the faculty of Usuluddin, Faculty of Arabic, Sharia Academy, explaining the to conduct research studies of annotated translation of all such Aqeeda books. The research will touch the books translated by other universities, colleges and individually by the scholars, and publishing companies. The research tries to encourage a culture of annotated translation of Aqeeda and all related books in higher classes to generalize the benefit of Aqeeda books.