نواب امیر حسن خان
افسوس ہے کہ گذشتہ مارچ میں نواب صدیق حسن خان کے پوتے اور نواب علی حسن خان کے بڑے صاحبزادے نواب امیر حسن خان نے دفعتہ انتقال کیا، اس خاندان میں کئی پشتوں تک علم و دولت کا اجتماع رہا نواب علی حسن خان خود صاحبِ علم، اہل قلم کے قدردان اور لکھنؤ کی اہم شخصیت تھے، اس لئے علامہ شبلی مرحوم سے اُن کے بڑے گہرے تعلقات تھے، اس تعلق اور علم دوستی کی بنا پر ان کو ندوہ اور دارالمصنفین سے خاص تعلق تھا، ندوہ کے وہ ابتداء سے حامی و مددگار اور ایک زمانہ تک اس کے ناظم رہے، دارالمصنفین کے بھی رکن تھے، نواب صاحب کی زندگی تک ان کا دولت کدہ اصحابِ علم وکمال کا مرجع تھا، مگر ان کی وفات کے بعد اس خاندان کی پرانی شان قائم نہ رہ سکی، تاہم نواب امیر حسن خان نے حتی الامکان قدیم روایات اور پرانے تعلقات کو نباہنے کی کوشش کی، مگر زمینداری کے خاتمہ نے اس خاندان کا بالکل خاتمہ کردیا، ایک زمانہ میں بھوپال ہاؤس کی رونق اور چہل پہل قابلِ دید تھی، اور اب وہ تلک الایام نداولہابین الناس[آل عمران:۱۴۰]کا مرقع بن گیا ہے، نواب امیر حسن خان کی عمر ساٹھ سال کے قریب رہی ہوگی، اﷲ ان کو اپنی رحمت ومغفرت سے سرفراز فرمائے۔
(شاہ معین الدین ندوی، مئی ۱۹۵۶ء)
The purpose of this paper is to guide about the main reason of clashes between revealed religions in the society. We do not clarify our vision regarding religion. People do not know about the basic ethics of our religions. So, it creates moral illness in the society. We have narrow approaches about religion and took it in very conservative thoughts. For getting out of extreme level of destruction and moral degradation it is necessary to build a universal society which consists of those social values which are common in all religions. People are inclined towards ills and far away from God that is why our society is a victim of destruction. These ills made them to go far away from God and religion. In the present era the situation is the same, people do not understand the religion properly. Only through this proper understanding, destruction, prejudice, extremism and cruelty can be removed from the society. All the religions have some common features as justice, honesty, courtesy, patience etc these features are the ethical as well as religious codes of a society and if all people follow these features an ideal society can be established. This study covers revealed religions all around the world.
Thal Desert, Pakistan has unique flora with reference to xeric conditions. Like other desert ecosystems of the country, this desert has been ignored to document the plant biodiversity and its ethnobotanical uses. Keeping in view, the area was surveyed to record flora and ethnobotanical information during September, 2011 to August, 2014. A total of 248 species distributed across 166 genera and 38 families were identified during the survey period. Besides, Heliotropium pakistanicum, H.crispum var. angulosum and H. europaeum subsp. thaliensis are determined as addition to science, while Themeda triandra as new recorded for Pakistan. It inculdes one fern, 4 monocots and 33 dicots families were determined. The most dominating family was Poaceae that contributed 52 species (21.49%), followed by Fabaceae (34 spp., 13.05%) and Amaranthaceae & Asteraceae (17 spp., 7.02% each), Boraginaceae (11 spp., 4.5%), Brassicaceae, Cyperaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Solanaceae (8 spp., 3.31% each), while, rest of the families contributed few number of species. The flora comprised on nine life span in which 122 species (46.74%) were herbaceous nature, followed by grasses (51 spp., 19.54%), trees (28 spp., 10.73%), shrubs (27 spp., 10.34), sedges (9 spp., 3.45%) and climbers (3.07%). With reference to ethnobotanical study, local inhabitants utilize native flora to fulfill their eight use needs such as folk medicine, fuel, fruits, vegetable, fodder/forage, ethno veterinary, soil binder and others. Most of the species were recognized as palatable by the herders and used as fodder (234 spp., 35.62%), followed by folk medicine (120 spp., 18.26%), fuel (108 spp., 16.44%), others (64 xiii spp., 9.74%), soil binder (48 spp., 7.31%), wild fruits (40 spp., 6.09%), vegetables (25 spp., 3.81%) and Ethno veterinary (18 spp., 2.74%). Compared to the medicinal literature, four species viz., Limeum indicum, Launaea residifolia, Farsetia jacquemontiiand Indigofera hochstetteripossessed novel medicinal uses not earlier reported in the literature. Besides, 76 species possessed new uses in addition to the medicinal records. Capparis decidua (Karenh), Moringa oleifera (Suhanjna), Prosopis cineraria (Jand), Salvadora oleoides (Pilu)and Ziziphus spinachristi (Jhar beri) were highly utilized species and ranked first amongst all species which fulfilled six major use categories. This comprehensive study will provide a useful starting point for further ecological and bioprospective research of the study area. The findings of this study will be helpful to foresters, rangeland managers, medicinal plant growers & collectors, economic botanists, ecologists, physiologists, breeders, etc.