مولانا شوکت میرٹھی
اردو فارسی کے قدیم خدمت گزاروں میں ایک مولانا شوکت میرٹھی تھے جو خود کو ’’مجدد السنۂ مشرقیہ‘‘ کے خطاب سے مخاطب کرتے تھے۔ انھوں نے خاقانیؔ، عرفیؔ اور غالبؔ کے دیوانوں کی عجیب و غریب شرحیں لکھی ہیں اور ہمیشہ اپنے مذاق کے مطابق وہ کچھ نہ کچھ کرتے اور کہتے رہتے تھے۔ افسوس ہے کہ گذشتہ مہینہ انھوں نے ایک طویل علالت اور کبر سنی کے بعد وفات پائی۔ اب شاید ایسے لوگ بھی ہمارے ہندوستان میں آئندہ پیدا نہ ہوں گے۔ (جنوری ۱۹۲۳ء)
It is an established fact that the mainthrust driving force of all Islamic disciplines is the personality of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who appeared in the Arab Peninsula, spreading the rays of divine wisdom throughout the globe. He emerged and prevailed the Prophetic message in such a vivid style that the whole humanity confessed his lasting impressions. The Indian sub-continent has also been one of the impressed territories despite of having no direct social, cultural or religious relationships, yet some approaches from Indian sub-continental Rajas and presentations of gifts to the Prophet (PBUH) have been recorded in the history. Historians have expressed the reality that before Muhammad bin Qasim, a numbers of companions of Prophet reached India and played a pivotal role in making the suitable ground for embracing Islam. Hence, the Arab epistemological tradition engraved in the core of Indian hearts which consequently, reappeared and emerged in the classical exegetical literature of sub-continental scholars, such as Shah Waliullah and his off shoots both in India and Pakistan. This paper has been specifically articulated to explore the Arab impression on exegetical writings in the sub-continent
In this study, scattering of electromagnetic plane wave from an impedance strip located at an infinitely extended planar interface has been presented. One half space of the geometry is occupied by free space medium whereas other half space is that of the chiral medium. Assuming that chiral medium is lossless, reciprocal, homogeneous and thickness of the strip is negligibly small, Kobayashi potential method has been used as method for analysis. In order to develop good understanding of the Kobayashi potential method when applied for study of scattering in the presence of chiral medium, simple situations are first considered. As analysis of scattering in an unbounded medium is simpler than that in the presence of interface and perfect electric conducting surface is considered a special case of impedance surface. So, a perfect electric conducting strip placed in an unbounded chiral medium is treated first followed by an impedance strip in unbounded chiral medium. Finally, scattering from perfect electric conducting strip and impedance strip at the planar interface of free space and chiral mediums is investigated. In the problem formulation generic form of scattered fields which satisfy two dimensional Helmholtz ‟ s equation with unknown weighting functions is considered. To satisfy a set of boundary and edge conditions properties of Weber-Schafheitlin integral are applied. In this step, unknown weighting functions are also written in terms of unknown expansion coefficients which are determined by applying the remaining boundary conditions and orthogonal properties of the Jacobi polynomials. Far zone scattered fields are determined by applying the Saddle point method of integration. For different parameters of interests, the monostatic and bistatic scattering widths have been analyzed numerically. The convergence of solution corresponding to the number of expansion coefficients is also examined numerically.