107. Al-Ma'un/Small Kindnesses
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. Have you ever considered the one who denies and belies the coming of the Time of
Resurrection and Final Judgment?
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a. He is the one who pushes away and mistreats the orphan,
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a. and does not encourage or motivate others in feeding and clothing the needy.
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a. So woe to those who Pray just out of custom,
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a. but who – they are knowingly unmindful of the meanings and demands of their Salat//
Prayers,
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a. who – they do some good but wish to be noticed and be considered pious and reverent,
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a. and yet refuse to extend the smallest of kindness to ordinary people.
Chronic hepatitis C is a major health problem associated with high mortality and morbidity. It is the most common chronic blood borne infection leading to chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. One of the treatment used for hepatitis C is interferon therapy which can lead to thyroid dysfunction i.e. Hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. OBJECTIVE: “To assess the frequency of hypothyroidism in chronic hepatitis C patients treated with standard interferon therapy”. METHODS: Thisdescriptive case series study was carried out at Outpatient Department of Medicine, King Edward Medical University/ Mayo Hospital Lahore for 06 months from July to December 2014. After ethical approval of the study, 200 patients of ages 15 to 65 years with both genders having chronic hepatitis C on Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)& normal thyroid functionstest were taken by Non-probability, purposive sampling technique. Informed written consent was taken from all the patients. Serum thyroid stimulating hormone level (TSH) was sent of all patients to Centre for Nuclear Medicine (CENUM), Mayo Hospital Lahore before and after the completion of three months of interferontherapy and hypothyroidism was considered as TSH>4.0 mIU/L (normal range: 0.2-4.0 mIU/L). RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 36.29 + 8.5 years. Out of total 200 patients, 123 (61.5%) were male and 77 (38.5%) were female. At baselines mean TSH of the patients was 3.16 + 2.57 mIU/L. After 3 months of therapy 163 patients (81.5%) were euthyroid and 37 patients (18.5%) were having thyroid dysfunction. Among patients with thyroid dysfunction 29 (14.5% of total patients) were hypothyroid. Among hypothyroid patients, according to gender distribution 8 (27.6%) patients were male and 21 (72.4%) patients were female. The difference was statistically significant (P=0.0003). CONCLUSION: It is concluded from this study that there is significant frequency of hypothyroidism in patients of chronic hepatitis C treated with standard interferon therapy and females are at more risk of developing thyroid dysfunction particularly hypothyroidism after standard interferon therapy.
This thesis contains results about the matrix valued truncated Toeplitz operators (MTTO''s) de ned on the model space K= H2 H2(E), with axed pure inner function and E an arbitrary Hilbert space. The class of MTTO''s is denoted by T (K ). In the main work of this thesis we shall concern with the extension of some of the results obtained in the scalar case by D. Sarason in [27]. After gathering together the mathematical preliminaries of this work in Chapter 1, in Chapter 2 we shall present the most important properties of the model spaces Kand some very important operators Sand S in T (K ). The main object of this thesis is the study of the matrix generalization of the truncated Toeplitz operators introduced in [27]; a more recent presentation is [17]. This will be the content of Chapter 3, 4, 5. Finally, in Chapter 6 the preceding theory is applied to initiate the study ofnite rank operators in T (K ).