سید فضل اﷲ الگیلانی
افسوس ہے ہماری بزم علم وفضل کی ایک اورشمع روشن بجھ گئی، یعنی ۲۳/مئی کو مولانا سید فضل اﷲ الگیلانی نے۷۸ برس کی عمر میں علی گڑھ میں وفات پائی اور یونیورسٹی کے قبرستان میں مدفون ہوئے۔اناﷲ واناالیہ راجعون۔حضرت مولانا محمد علی مونگیری جن کاسلسلۂ نسب باپ کی طرف سے حضرت شیخ عبدالقادر جیلانی تک پہنچتا ہے مولانا کے دادا تھے۔ والد یعنی مولوی احمد علی کاانتقال جوانی میں ہوگیا جب کہ مولانا صرف سات برس کے تھے، اس لیے دادا نے آپ کو تربیت میں لے لیا اورمونگیر میں رہ کرآپ نے علوم دینیہ واسلامیہ کی تکمیل کی۔ بعض کتابوں کا درس مفتی عبداللطیف سے بھی لیا جوبعد میں آپ کے خسر بھی ہوگئے۔ تعلیم سے فراغت کے بعد عثمانیہ یونیورسٹی حیدرآباد کے شعبۂ دینیات میں لیکچرر ہوئے۔ ۱۹۵۶ء میں،۱۹۵۷ء میں ریڈر اورصدر شعبہ کی حیثیت سے سبکدوش ہوئے۔اس کے بعد آپ نے کاروبار شروع کردیا اور ملازمت کبھی نہیں کی۔
مولانا علم وفضل کے اعتبار سے سلف صالحین کانمونہ تھے استعداد نہایت پختہ، مطالعہ بے حد وسیع اورنظر دقیق تھی۔ان کوسب علوم سے یکساں مناسبت تھی، مطالعہ اور درس کے دھنی تھے، لکھتے کم تھے مگر جب کبھی لکھا بہت خوب لکھا، چنانچہ امام بخاری کی کتاب’’ ادب المفرد‘‘ کی جوشرح دوجلدوں میں مرحوم نے لکھی اورمدینہ سے شائع ہوئی ہے۔تحقیق اوردقت نظر کاشاہکار ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ چند چھوٹے بڑے رسالے جو بعض جزئی مسائل پرلکھے گئے ان میں بھی تحقیق کی یہی شان ہے۔ عملاً نہایت عابدوزاہد اورصاحب اورادوظائف، جماعت سے نمازادا کرنے کااہتمام سخت معذوری کی حالت میں بھی کرتے تھے۔ اخلاق وعادات کے اعتبار سے بڑے متواضع،خوش مزاج،باوضع اورقلندر منش انسان تھے۔ضرورت مندوں کی مدد کرنے میں انہیں خوشی محسوس ہوتی تھی۔ برسوں سے دارالعلوم دیوبند کی مجلس شوری کے ممبر تھے اُس کے جلسوں میں پابندی...
The rise of Islam, which emerged as a panacea for the world problems is seen as a problem itself by the west today. The reason for this blame is the rise of extremism and Islam phobia in the western societies. This has serious implicat-ions for personal, communal, national and international security. The involve-ment of youth in extremist exertions is very high. They are being more action-oriented, easy to be influenced by radical ideologies and as an agent for thrus-ting social change. Keeping in consideration the role of youth in adopting to or combatting extremism, it is imperative to find the perception of this important population about the problem under investigation. The research study was conducted in six universities in the federal capital Islamabad to reach to the youth’s population. The research was guided by research questions that aimed at exploring students’ perception about extremism and its various dimensions. The researcher collected data through an open-ended questionnaire from 1840 students to seek an in-depth understanding of the problem. In order to increase credibility in the findings, the researcher conducted focused group interview with 12 young faculty members. The data from the questionnaires were conver-ted into percentages based on common themes. The interview data set were thematically analyzed to understand the causes of extremism and its suggested solutions. Recommendations were suggested to tackle the menace of extremism in Pakistan.
The basic drive behind this research, is the everyday problems of lawlessness faced by people of Pakistan on roads, in markets and offices and virtually all around them. The behavior of people towards discipline and compliance is distressingly indifferent. The indifference is shared equally by the so-called literates and illiterates. In more civilized societies, law-literacy is interwoven into literacy that makes people aware of the rules of conduct and requires them to own and internalize these rules. Compliance becomes the spontaneous response of these people and a strong culture of lawfulness results. The research, initially, aims at qualitatively determining the reasons why literacy is producing different results in Pakistan as compared with England and Norway. It is observed that in Pakistan, academic literacy is assumed to be meant for careers and not for social and cultural training. The result is that social side of learning remains cosmetic and lacks internalization according to the spirit of norms and law. A weak culture of lawfulness is the outcome. The research further postulates that a weak culture of lawfulness occupies a lower position on the scale of rule of law. On the other hand, global data shows that countries better on the scale of rule of law are better in terms of peace in society. It points out a causal relationship between law literacy, culture of lawfulness, rule of law and peace. To find out relationship between all four factors the research invites quantitative analysis that determines a significant causal relationship among law literacy, culture of lawfulness, rule of law and peace. Presumably, a wellplanned community law literacy program by utilizing all three channels of literacy i.e. formal, non-formal and informal could positively steer culture of lawfulness, rule of law, and peace. By utilizing the findings of this rigorous research comprising qualitative and quantitative analyses, an executable community law literacy model is proposed for Pakistan to enable people to internalize culture of lawfulness wherefrom rule of law and peace would causally sprout. Application of social marketing theory is recommended for short term results and for long term change of mindset, DewyFreirean fused method of teaching is suggested to be utilized to fully implement the proposed model.