English Precis & Composition

Use any ten of the following idiomatic expressions in sentences to make their meaning clear:

Write a letter to your friend inviting him for a cycling tour. (10 Marks) OR Write an application to the SDO of LESCO of your area for the replacement of electricity meter.

Make a précis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title. As we see, what decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm. There is no possibility at all of its being carried through; all the regulations of the universe run counter to it. One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation'. What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to high degree, and it is from its nature only possible as an episodic phenomenon. When any situation that is desired by the pleasure principle is prolonged, it only produces a feeling of mild contentment. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. Thus our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threaten with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other. We tend to regard it as a kind of gratuitous addition, although it cannot be any less fatefully inevitable than the suffering which comes from elsewhere.

Translate the following passage into English. اسلام میں تعلیم کو ایک خاص اہمیت حاصل ہے۔ کیونکہ اسلام دنیا کا وہ واحد مذہب ہے جو سراپا علم و عرفان ہے۔ اسلامی نقطہ نظر سے ہر فرد کی دینی اور دنیاوی زندگی کے جداجدا پہلوؤں سے صحیح تشکیل وغیرہ نہیں ہوسکتی۔ جس طرح سیاست کو دین سے جدا نہیں کیا جاسکتا۔ اسی طرح تعلیم بھی دین کے ساتھ وابستہ ہے۔ تخلیق آدم کے وقت اللہ تعالیٰ نے انسان کو جس دولت سے نوازا تھا۔ وہ "علم الاشیاء" تھا۔ جس کی بناء پر حضرت آدم علیہ السلام کو تمام فرشتوں پر فوقیت ملی اور انسان اشرف المخلوقات بنا۔ حضور اکرم ﷺ جو پہلی وحی نازل ہوئی اس میں علم اور ذرائع علم کی اہمیت کے بارے میں واضح اشارات ملتے ہیں۔ ارشاد ربانی ہے۔ "پڑھا اپنے رب کے نام سے جس نے پیدا کیا، خون سے انسان کو۔ پڑھ تیرا رب کریم ہے۔ جس نے قلم کے ذریعے سے تعلیم دی"۔