مولانا محمد شفیع
افسوس ہے پچھلے دنوں مدرسۂ عبدالرب دہلی کے بہت دیرینہ صدر المدرسین جناب مولانا محمد شفیع صاحب کی ڈیڑھ سال کی مسلسل علالت کے بعد اپنے وطن دیوبند میں وفات ہوگئی۔ مولانا نے عمر کافی پائی۔ ۱۲۹۲ھ میں پیداہوئے تھے اور۱۶/جمادی الاول۱۳۸۰ھ میں انتقال ہوا۔ لیکن آخر تک درس و تدریس اور مدرسہ کے اہتمام و انتظام کاکام حاضرحواسی اورپابندی سے کرتے رہے۔ دارالعلوم دیوبند سے۱۳۱۶ھ میں فراغت کے بعد چند سال ادھر اُدھر رہے۔ پھر اپنے وقت کے مشہور محدث مولانا عبدالعلی صاحب جواُن کے استاد بھی تھے اُن کی دعوت پرمدرسۂ عبدالرب دہلی سے وابستہ ہوئے توساری عمر یہیں بتا دی، چنانچہ ساٹھ برس اس مدرسہ کی خدمت کرتے رہے۔حضرت شیخ الہندؒ کے داماد تھے۔حضرت مرحوم کی منجھلی صاحبزادی جو اخلاق وشمائل میں مشابہ ہونے کے باعث پدربزرگوار کی نسبتہً زیادہ چہیتی بیٹی تھیں، مولانا سے منسوب تھیں اور اسی وجہ سے حضرت شیخ الہند کو بھی مرحوم کے ساتھ زیادہ لگاؤ تھا، غالباً اسی شفقت اور تربیت روحانی کا اثر تھا کہ عادات واطوار کے لحاظ سے اُن میں بعض ایسی خوبیاں پائی جاتی تھیں جوآج کل نایاب نہیں توکمیاب ضرور ہیں، درویشی اور قناعت پسندی کایہ عالم تھاکہ کھدر کے موٹے جھوٹے کپڑوں کے علاوہ تیسرا جوڑا کبھی بھی نہیں رکھا۔اپنے کمرہ میں بجلی کی روشنی کبھی گوارا نہیں کی،ہمیشہ کڑوے تیل کا دیا جلائے رہے۔ کھانا بہت سادہ کھاتے تھے۔ شہرت سے اس درجہ نفرت تھی کہ وفات سے پہلے اپنے خلف الرشیدمولانا محمد رفیع کو بطور وصیت تاکید کی کہ ان کے انتقال کی خبر بھی کسی اخبار میں نہ چھپے۔علم دین کے پاسِ وضع کا اس درجہ خیال تھا کہ پہلے پہل میرا تقرر سنیٹ اسٹیفنس کالج میں ہوا جومشن کالج ہے توانھیں صدمہ ہوااوربرادرمحترم مفتی عتیق الرحمن صاحب سے جو مرحوم کے بھانجے ہیں اس کی...
In the past, mode of Sirah writing was historical and descriptive but during the 19th century, this trend has been changed to the empirical research methodology. Due to religious devotion, unauthentic narrations were not judged and had been quoted constantly in Sirah literature on which orientalists laid the foundation of their objections. In response, various books are produced introducing argumentative, logical and scholarly way of writing to defend “Sirah of Prophet (PBUH)”. Question is what are the motives and causes which have changed classical trend of Sirah writing and what are its consequences? In this paper, a comparative analysis will be taken of books of Eastern Muslim scholars; Rehmatullah Keranwi, Syed Ahmad Khan, Karam Shah Alazhari, Shibli Noumani, Sana ullah Amertasri as well as Western Muslim scholars Mohammad Hussain Haykel, Hameed ullah, and Mohammad Asad. This paper will elaborate the difference between both of their research methodology and its effect in the field of Sirah writing and will be helpful for researchers.
Aging’ previously regarded as an emerging problem of the industrialized countries is now recognized as a global phenomenon. Currently, more than half of the world’s women aged 60 years and over are living in developing regions, i.e. 198 million compared with 135 million in the developed regions. Aging being an important global phenomena has attracted the attention of sociologists who are looking into the socio- economic and cultural antecedents of the process of ageing. The present study was planned to be conducted in Punjab province of Pakistan. Multistage Random Sampling Technique was used. According to this technique, sampling is done in two or more stages. At the first stage, from 36 districts of the ‘Punjab’ province, two districts were selected randomly. These were ‘Faisalabad’ and Rawalpindi’. At the second stage, out of eight towns, (of each district) two towns were randomly selected from each of the two districts, constituting a sampling of four towns. At the third Stage, two union councils (one rural and one urban) were randomly selected from each of the four above mentioned towns to constitute a sample of eight union councils. The desired sample of 500 respondents was to be divided on two districts of the ‘Punjab’ province. Both quantitative and qualitative methods (focus group) were used to collect data. Information on selected demographic and socio-cultural variables i.e. age, education, income, housing/living arrangements, nutritional status, social support and social network of the elderly women was collected through well organized interview schedule. Influence of these independent variables was observed on the ‘health status’ of elderly women (social, mental/ psychological and physical health status).Both independent and dependent variables were measured by operational zing and constructing the indexation. Analysis of data was made on the basis of uni-variate, bi-variate and multivariate analysis. Findings of uni-variate analysis: Mean age of the women was 69.4, around 35.0 percent were ‘widows’, 94.8 percent were living with their married/unmarried children. Only 13.4 percent of the elderly women and 26.6 percent of their husbands were literate. Only 3.4 percent of respondents were involved in some type of economic activity. The mean no. of children was around 5 children. Findings of bi-variate analysis: Statistical test indicated that the age of the elderly women was inversely related with the health status. However education, income, housing / living arrangements, nutritional status, social support and social network of the elderly women was positively associated with their health status. Findings of multivariate analysis: Results of ordinal regression analysis also showed that family income, housing/living arrangements, nutritional status, social support and social network had highly significant influence on the health status of the elderly women. Study suggests that the policy makers as well as health providers need to focus on the health and well-being of the older population, particularly in the context of poverty, low levels of education, nutrition and poor health system.