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المقدمة

الحمد لله رب العالمين الصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمّد الأمين - صلى الله عليه وسلم- المبعوث رحمة للعالمين وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين.

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فلا شكّ أنَّ البشرية، لم تعرف كتابًا حظي بالدرس، والتمحيص، واحتفاء الناس به، كما هو الحال مع (القرآن العظيم). فمنذ تنزل الوحي على قلب نبينا - صلّى الله عليه وسلّم - لم يتوقف تأثير هذا الكتاب على قـُلوب الناس، وعقولهم؛ وذلك لأنّه نزل مفصلاً، قيمًا، متصفـًا بمعجز النظم كما في قوله تعالى: ﴿لَا يَأْتِيهِ الْبَاطِلُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيهِ وَلَا مِنْ خَلْفِهِ تَنْزِيلٌ مِنْ حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍ﴾ (فصلت: 42). جعله الله متلوًا لا يمل على طول التلاوة، وعجيبًا لا تنقضي عجائبه.

وقد أنزل الله - عزّ وجلّ - القرآن الكريم بلسانٍ عربيّ مبين، وجعلهُ محكمًا فقال:﴿كِتَابٌ أُحْكِمَتْ آيَاتُهُ ثُمَّ فُصِّلَتْ مِنْ لَدُنْ حَكِيمٍ خَبِيرٍ﴾ (هود: 1). وجعله معجزًا؛ تحدى به العرب، أنْ يأتوا بمثله، أو بسورة من مثله فقال سبحانه وتعالى: ﴿فَأْتُوا بِسُورَةٍ مِنْ مِثْلِهِ وَادْعُوا شُهَداءَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ﴾ (البقرة: 23). وحكم عليهم بالعجز أنْ يفعلوا ذلك في الماضي، أو الحاضر، أو المستقبل فقال: ﴿فَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوا فَاتَّقُوا النَّارَ الَّتِي وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ أُعِدَّتْ لِلْكَافِرِينَ﴾  [االبقرة: 24]. ولم يكن هذا التحدي للعرب الذين اشتهروا بالفصاحة وحدهم، بل كان للإنس والجنّ قاطبةً، يقول تعالى: ﴿قُلْ لَئِنِ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْتُوا بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لَا يَأْتُونَ بِمِثْلِهِ وَلَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ ظَهِيرًا﴾ [الإسراء: 88].

أما الفصاحة لهذه الايات الكريمة تنمي إلى أدب القرآن فالآداب لا تكون في الإنسان إلا شرائع، ولكن الإنسان إذا عَرِيَ من الأدب النفسي، فربما شرع لنفسه ما لا يصنع الشيطانُ أخبثَ منه بل ما يَركضُ فيه الشيطانُ ركضاً؛ وقلما انتفعَ مَن لا أدب له بشريعة من الشرائع وإن كانت في الغاية التي لا مذهبَ وراءها...

Emergence, Growth and Management of Slums around the Globe with a Special Focus on Pakistan

In the past few decades, the world has witnessed massive urbanization to access better living standards including better employment, education and health opportunities. This urbanization trend ends in the emergence and growth of informal settlements and highlights the urban dualism. This rapid urbanization amounts to the crisis of housing, employment opportunities and other basic facilities. In this regard, this study is an effort to provide the baseline understanding of slums of developing countries in general and Pakistan specifically. It also attempts to provide the definition of slums and the actual status of slums across the globe with a special focus on developing countries. Socioeconomic and living conditions of the slum dwellers in developing regions are also explored in this study. This also concludes that the status of slum residents need proper recognition, identification and mapping for the improvements in their living standards and provision of public facilities. It also provides some ways to identify the slum dwellers and mapping of slums in urban peripheries of Pakistan.

Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Utaut and its Relationship With Knowledge Exchange: the Role of Information Communication Technologies Ict in Universities

Universities are investing on ICT for providing distance education to students residing in remote areas. But in most of the cases, ICT fails and users resist using it. Therefore the purpose of conducting this study is to examine factors that help in building teachers and students trust on ICT and ICT usage behavior for knowledge exchange. For this, two studies were conducted, where teachers and students of two public sector universities of Pakistan were requested to participate. These universities specifically offer distance learning programs and use ICT for knowledge sharing and knowledge seeking. Data on independent variables (―UTAUT constructs‖) and mediating variables (trust, intention) were collected at time period 1, whereas responses for ―usage behavior‖ was collected at time period 2 (after 2 months gap within a semester). In total for study 1, 350 responses were received from students and for study 2, 150 responses were received from teachers. For mediation analysis, Hayes (2013) MACRO PROCESS with bootstrapped confidence interval technique was used. The mediation results on the basis of indirect effects suggested that trust mediates the relationship between facilitating condition (FC) and Usage Behavior (UB) for both the studies as proposed. Moreover, trust and intention sequentially mediated the relationship between performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI) and UB in both the studies except between EE, SI and UB of study 2. The current study also presents the theoretical and practical implications with limitation of the study and future research directions.
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