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1
The Islamic principle that states "actions are judged by intentions" is referred to as:
A. Niyyah
B. Ihsan
C. Taqwa
D. Sabr
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"Niyyah" means intention in Arabic and the hadith "Actions are judged by intentions" refers directly to the importance of niyyah.
2
Which script is officially used for writing Sindhi in Pakistan today?
A. Devanagari
B. Roman script
C. Perso-Arabic (modified Arabic) script
D. Gurmukhi
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Sindhi in Pakistan is normally written in a modified Perso-Arabic script with additional letters for Sindhi sounds.
3
Which script is primarily used to write Punjabi in Pakistan?
A. Gurmukhi (Sikh script)
B. Devanagari
C. Shahmukhi (Perso‑Arabic script)
D. Romanized Punjabi (Latin script)
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Shahmukhi, a Perso‑Arabic based script written right‑to‑left, is the primary script for Punjabi in Pakistan.
4
In the Perso-Arabic script used for Persian, which of the following letters does NOT connect to the following letter (i.e., has no left-joining form)?
A. Alef (ا)
B. Noon (ن)
C. Meem (م)
D. Seen (س)
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Alef is one of the non-connecting letters in Perso-Arabic script and therefore does not join to the following letter.
5
Classical Pashto formal poetry often made use of which prosodic system inherited from Arabic and Persian traditions?
A. Free verse (no fixed meter)
B. Arūz (quantitative Arabic–Persian prosody)
C. Vedic syllabic meters
D. Accentual-syllabic meter (stress-timed)
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Many classical Pashto poets adopted the arūz system of quantitative meter from Arabic and Persian poetic tradition for formal compositions.
6
Which writing system is traditionally used for standard Pashto?
A. Perso-Arabic script (extended for Pashto)
B. Devanagari script
C. Latin (Roman) script
D. Cyrillic script
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Pashto is written in an extended Perso-Arabic script that includes additional letters to represent Pashto phonemes.
7
Which administrative change implemented during the Umayyad period had a lasting impact on governance across their territories?
A. Abolition of all provincial administrations
B. Adoption of Persian as the court language
C. Standardization of Arabic as the official language of administration
D. Introduction of democratic elections for governors
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The Umayyad administration standardized Arabic as the official language for governance and administration, which had long-term institutional effects across their domains.
8
The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in Abbasid Baghdad is best known for which major intellectual activity?
A. Systematic translation and synthesis of Greek, Syriac and other works into Arabic
B. Exclusive development of Islamic jurisprudence and hadith without foreign sources
C. Establishing a standardized ritual calendar for the Muslim world
D. Serving primarily as a military academy for the Abbasid army
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The House of Wisdom spearheaded a large-scale translation movement that rendered Greek, Syriac and other texts into Arabic and fostered intellectual synthesis.
9
Which Umayyad caliph instituted Arabic as the administrative language of the caliphate and reformed coinage to reflect Islamic identity?
A. Muawiya I
B. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
C. Marwan II
D. Al-Walid I
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Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) introduced Arabic in administration and replaced Byzantine-Sassanian coinage with Islamic coinage as part of state centralization.
10
In Perso-Arabic orthographies adapted for Balochi, which character is typically used to represent the glottal stop (or its orthographic equivalent)?
A. Alif with maddah (آ)
B. Hamza (ء)
C. Ye (ی)
D. Waw (و)
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The hamza is the conventional Perso-Arabic character used to denote a glottal stop or related orthographic functions in adapted Balochi script.
