Islamiyat, class 7

Again Sindh and KP publish the same book, and the identification is diagnostic rather than impressionistic: the same five-chapter shape, the same recitation block (paras 13–20), the same hifz trio (Al-Duha, Al-Zilzal, Al-Qariah), the same seerah run from the Conquest of Makkah through Hunain and Tabuk to the Farewell Sermon and the demise, and the same four personalities in the same order — Ayesha Siddiqa, Baba Farid, Salahuddin Ayubi, Ibn Khaldun. Both descend from National Curriculum 2006, the score is reported once, and no board difference should be manufactured. Punjab runs its seven-bab frame instead, with beliefs on angels and revealed books, a seerah unit covering the consolidation of Madinah, Khandaq, Banu Qurayza and Hudaybiyah, an ethics unit targeting ostentation, and a modern-age unit on the importance of education in Islam and Islam and public health. Its Quran unit continues the class-6 prophet-narrative series with Ibrahim, Musa and Dawud; its hifz surahs are At-Teen, Al-Alaq, Al-Qadr and Al-Bayyinah — note the near-inversion, in that what Punjab sets for class 7 Sindh sets for class 6. All three score A1b 3 and A7 4. Where they differ on A6 is a Sindh–Punjab gap, 2 against 3, and only the Sindh half is quotable, because Punjab's file is Urdu OCR: Sindh's Salahuddin lesson records his "general amnesty for all Christians of Palestine" with jizya waived for the old and disabled (p.88), and its rights-of-the-sick lesson has the Prophet visiting Muslims and non-Muslims alike "and even he used to visit his enemies who fell ill" (p.74). Punjab's A6 3 rests on a Banu Qurayza index entry alone and its register is not established. One institutional fact worth carrying: Sindh's book states that 40 of 100 Islamiyat marks go to Quran recitation (p.7). Sindh and KP teach the same Islamiyat lesson-for-lesson, and it is the lesson in which Salahuddin pardons the Christians of Palestine.