شیخ مشیر حسین قدوائی
گزشتہ سال کے خاتمہ پر ۲۳؍ دسمبر ۱۹۳۷ء کو شیخ مشیر حسین صاحب قدوائی بیرسٹرایٹ لادتعلقہ دارگدیہ (بارہ بنکی صوبۂ اودھ) نے انسٹھ (۵۹) برس کی عمر میں دل کی پرانی بیماری سے وفات پائی، مرحوم اسلام کے پرجوش سپاہی تھے، عمر بھر فرنگستان کی وادیوں میں اپنے قلم سے مصروف جہاد رہے، ووکنگ مشن کی قلمی کوششوں میں ان کا حصہ نہایت اہم ہے، جنگ عظیم کے زمانہ میں ووکنگ ہی میں مقیم تھے، یورپ کے بڑے بڑے مشاہیر سے ملاقاتیں رکھتے تھے اور دنیائے اسلام کے اکثر اکابر سے ان کی ذاتی واقفیت اور مراسلت تھی، وہ اتحاد اسلامی کی تحریک کے بانیوں اور ملک کے سیاسی آزادی کے حامیوں میں تھے، ۱۹۲۰ء میں فیض آباد خلافت کانفرنس کے صدر کی حیثیت سے انہوں نے جو خطبہ پڑھا تھا وہ ہندوستان میں ترکی اور یورپ کے معاملات کے متعلق پہلا ذریعہ علم تھا، مرحوم اپنی اخیر زندگی تک اسلام کی خدمت میں مصروف رہے، ان کی وفات سے شاید چند ہی روز پہلے ان کی آخری انگریزی تصنیف ’’اسلام اور بولشزم‘‘ چھپ کر نکلی تھی، اﷲ تعالیٰ اس سپاہی کی مجاہدانہ قلمی خدمات کو حسن قبول اور تاثیر بخشے اور اس کو بہشت بریں کی نعمت عطا فرمائے۔
مرحوم سے واقفیت تو ہندوستان ہی میں تھی، مگر میرا ان کا ساتھ ۱۹۲۰ء میں انگلستان میں ہوا، جہاں وہ وفد خلافت کے ساتھ آکر مقیم ہوئے تھے، مرحوم انگلستان کے قیام میں بھی نمازوں کی پابندی کیا کرتے تھے اور وضو اور طہارت کا اہتمام رکھتے تھے، مرحوم ندوہ کے پرانے رکن تھے، ندوہ کی سرکاری امداد کے معاملہ میں ان کی کوششیں بھی شامل تھیں، غالباً ۱۹۰۸ء میں اسی سلسلہ میں جب انگریز انسپکٹر آف اسکولس ندوہ کو دیکھنے کے لئے آیا تو مرحوم اس کے ساتھ تھے، اس زمانہ میں...
Sirah of the Holy Prophet ﷺ is the topic on which a lot of work has been done both in the Muslim and non-Muslim world. For Muslims it was the source of aspiration and adaptation for the practical purposes of social life while for the non-Muslims it was the source of inquisitiveness and understanding Islam as a successful religion in the past and present time. Therefore, Muslim enthusiastic interest in the biography of the Holy Prophet ﷺ developed and evolved into a regular science while the west has modified the knowledge of biography according to their own order of preference but within the same biographic precedents. Both have tried to reconstruct the biography of the Holy Prophet ﷺ historically, chronologically and logically.
Clinton Bennett is one of the western scholars who has contributed not only in the Islamic literature but also the biographic field. His work consists of numerous issues in Islam. Whatever he has learned from Islam and the Sirah of Holy Prophet and thus concluded in the form of his own thoughts, he has expressed most of them in his famous five books for example ‘In Search of Muhammad’, ‘Muslims and Modernity’, ‘Studying Islam’, ‘Interpreting the Qur’an’, and ‘Victorian Images of Islam’ (doctoral thesis)’.
This study focuses on Clinton Bennett’s work on Sirah specifically with his broader view of the subject. This research is descriptive and analytical in nature and presents a detailed analysis of the work it is based upon.
Teachers are the pillars of the society, who help students to grow to shoulder the responsibility of taking their nation ahead of others. Teachers’ satisfaction with workplace is the heart of the study. If a teacher is satisfied with his/her job, then he/she will deliver his/her contributions in appropriate way. The major objectives of the study were: (1) to know difference between the views of public and private university teachers regarding their job satisfaction; (2) to differentiate the perceptions of public and private university teachers by academic qualification on their job satisfaction; (3) to explore difference between the opinions of public and private university teachers by age about job satisfaction; (4) to find out difference between the views of public and private university teachers by experience regarding job satisfaction; and (5) to explore the difference between the perceptions of public and private university teachers by gender about job satisfaction. The population of the study consisted of all teachers of public and private universities in Khyber Pakhtun Khwa. The researcher randomly selected 14 (7 public and 7 private) out of 25 universities in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. The sample size was 420 respondents. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Mean Independent Sample t-test was employed for data analysis. No significant difference was found between the perceptions of public and private universities’ teachers on majority 20 dimensions of job satisfaction. However, significant difference was observed between the views of public and private universities’ teachers on some job satisfaction facets. It was concluded that the views of both the public and private universities’ teachers are the same. It was recommended that Higher Education Commission (HEC) may take various measures to remove the gap between the perceptions of public and private universities’ teachers on some facets of job satisfaction in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.