About COSIS (College of Shariah and Islamic Sciences)

Minhaj University Lahore (MUL) was established on 18th September 1986 in the city of Lahore-the city of learning, art, culture and science. Minhaj University Lahore has gained the status of an international university for its distinctive educational system and multi-dimensional progress. The just nineteen and years since its inception, its fame and popularity have reached Europe, Africa and the Middle East; the progress continues and its alumni will lead the Islamic and academic renaissance in the world.

College of Shariah, the first of the colleges functioning under the Minhaj University, is a grand centre of learning and education striving for the production of honest, cultivated, qualified and committed leadership for the prevalence of Islam. It offers the Muslim Ummah multi-faceted, future-oriented and practical education in the context of a challenging environment in Islamic, social, business, and computer technologies. College of Shariah is committed to harmonious development of the learner's intellectual, spiritual and physical faculties.

College of Shariah is the first college of its nature, which offers a blend of both religious and contemporary studies; it is noted for its high quality of instruction, dynamic strategy and experiential training formate. Its salient features are as follows

  • It interprets Islam in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah providing practically crystallized solutions to all the problem areas of life.
  • It inculcates the spirit of the ultimate submission to and love for the last Prophet (PBUH) of Allah assuring the foundation of brotherhood among the Muslims.
  • It provides scientific, ideological, moral, spiritual and practical learning enabling the youth to serve the nation skillfully and sincerely.
  • It offers a training format for the young generations furnishing them with a comparative study and research for the Qur’an, Hadith, Fiqh, and other tracks of Shariah enabling them to present solution to problems and fulfil the needs of the day.
  • It enables the students to play their role in the universal unification of the Muslims forgoing the pessimism of sects and creeds.
  • It equips the students with computer education and modern sciences so that they may present the Islamic teachings in a way appealing to society at large.
  • It trains the students morally and spiritually so that they build their character and strengthen their inner selves treading the path of abstinence and purification.
  • It unfolds the hidden potentials of the students with the most traditional and contemporary sciences along with the social, cultural, religious, spiritual and informational tracks that are the prime objectives of the institution.
  • It hones communication skills of the students with curricula and co-curricular activities.

Chief objectives

  1. An interpretation of Islam in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah providing practically crystallized solutions to all the problem areas of life.
  2. Inculcation of the ultimate submission to and love for the last Prophet of Allah (PBUH) assuring the foundation of brotherhood among the Muslims.
  3. A system for the scientific, ideological, moral, spiritual and practical learning enabling the youth to serve the nation and the country skilfully and sincerely.
  4. A training format for the young generations furnishing them with a comparative study of the Qur’an, Hadith, Fiqh, and other tracks of Shariah and enabling them to present solutions to the problems and meet the needs of the day as a result of their comparative study of the religions.