لازم کب تھا کرتے روز بیاں ہم سے
کہہ دیتے اک بار ہے الفت ہاں ہم سے
یوں تو وقت کے پانی سے سب دھو ڈالے
دیکھ! مٹا نہ غم کا ایک نشاں ہم سے
چشمِ تر کی اندر ہے ترسیل کہیں
یوں اٹھتا ہے جلتے وقت دھواں ہم سے
پڑھ سکتے ہو گر تو پڑھ لو چہرے کو
یار نہیں ہوتا ہے عشق بیاں ہم سے
ویرانی کا موسم اترا ہے دل پر
خوش کتنی ہے اب کی بار خزاں ہم سے
Rectification is a terminology of Islamic Studies which means corrections of mistakes, completion of deficiency and clarification of ambiguity, it is a very special Quality of Islam due to its impacts and importance. Rectifications of Honourable Muslim Scholars on one another is a source for the innocency of this Ummah, here is the example of Rectification in the era of Sahahaba رضي الله عنهم and Tabieen and later, while the book of Eimam Al Hakim “Al Mustadrak Ala Sahehain” is an example of rectification at the time of Tabieen; in which he collects the narrations missed by Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim in their books Saheeh Bukhari and Saheeh Muslim. The Honourable scholars follow this way in all the disciplines of Islamic Studies especially in the field of Tafseer because they had rectifications on one another in their explanation of the Holy Quran. As for example Eimam Al Sayuti (911 AH) and Emam Aalusi (1270 AH) has rectifications in their explanations of Holy Quran on the Tafseer of Eimam Fakhr uddin Al Razi “Tafseer ul Kabeer”, while in our era Shaikh Ghulam Rasool Saeedi (1437 AH) follow the same way, and most of his ratifications in his Tafseer “Tibyan ul Quran” is related to Imam Razi. One thing which is unforgettable is that, these Scholars have maintained respect of personalities and opinions, furthermore they were mostly impartial in their research as well as tolerant while dealing with these issues even having different schools of thoughts etc. Their difference did not make them discourteous or impolite.
Expectations play a pivotal role in human life. These are considered as filters through which the whole schematic frame of decision making must pass before implementation. Expectation making is a phenomenon which lacks determinism and objectivity because it is strictly linked with heterogeneous individualistic domains and characteristics of human life. Economic literature often categorizes expectations into rational and adaptive, it also remains concerned with categorizing inflationary expectations of economic agents without focusing much on providing a deterministic frame of reference. The study at hands tries to fill up this literature gap by analyzing expectations subjectively at individual level. The study also offers a deterministic framework of these expectations based on manifold behavioral tendencies possessed by individuals, including optimism, satisfaction, religiosity, economic literacy, shortsightedness and tendency of making comparisons. The study objectively deals with categorizing rational and adaptive nature of expectations on the part of individuals and the underlying factors causing this divide. It also captures differential levels of inflationary expectations and has tried to explain this differential based on various quantitative and qualitative attributes. Finally, the study addresses firms level inflationary expectations and offers its explanation based on some firm level attributes. The study has explored the said objectives through a well-organized field survey by collecting the subjective responses with the help of a structured questionnaire. Within an Ordinal Logit and Generalized Ordinal Logit model design, our study finds that individuals are heterogeneous with respect to rational and adaptive nature of expectations. They are also found heterogeneous in terms of reporting high and low-level forecasts of inflation. On deterministic front, we find that demographic variables including age, income and education significantly affect rationality and levels of inflationary expectations in our first two empirical models. The hypothesized behavioral attributes including myopic tendency, optimism, satisfaction content, economic literacy and relative comparison have also been found significant with respect to their impact on degree of rationality and inflationary expectations. Finally, the proposed firm level attributes including market experience of firm, firm’s size, nature of firm, myopia in price setting, forward looking behavior and information set all are found significant determinants of firm level inflationary expectations.