منشی اقبال احمد
افسوس ہے کہ ۶؍ دسمبر کو منشی اقبال احمد صاحب بھی حرکت قلب بند ہوجانے سے انتقال کرگئے، وہ ماہر کاتب تھے، اپنی پوری زندگی دارالمصنفین کی خدمت میں گزاری، اس کی اکثر کتابیں ان ہی کے خط سے نکلی ہیں، اپنی خوشنویسی کی وجہ سے اترپردیش اردو اکاڈمی سے انعام بھی حاصل کیا، اب بصارت کی کمزوری کی بناء پر کتابت ترک کردی تھی، ان میں غرور و گھمنڈ نہ تھا، اپنی نرم اور شیریں گفتگو سے لوگوں کا دل موہ لیتے، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی بشری لغزشوں سے درگزر کرے اور انھیں اپنے سایہ رحمت میں جگہ دے۔
(ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، دسمبر ۱۹۸۸ء)
Ka’ab bin Zuhair recited his famous poem of praise for the Prophet (s.a.w) in his presence and received his cloth as a gift in return. His poem has been narrated in the collections of Hadis and Seerah along with its notable presence in the Arabic literature. Allama Jalal ud Din as-Suyūṭī has written a detailed explanation on this poem with the title of Kunhul Murad fi bayan Banat Suaad. This article describes the back ground of the poem and then focuses on the approach adopted by Allama Suyūṭī in his explanations and gives an analysis on his style. As he has adopted the classical approach for the explanation therefore, his work is quite elaborate and consists wide range of related information which has made it one of the most popular explanation of the poem Banat Suaad. This study explains his methodology along with examples from his work.
The problem under investigation was to find out whether achievement through Mastery Learning (ML)
and Direct Instruction (DI) was dependent on the aptitude of student-teachers in the graduate teacher
training programme or not. The objectives of the study were to ascertain the aptitude of student-
teachers before teaching them through Mastery Learning and Direct Instruction, to compare the high
aptitude student-teachers in their academic achievement through Mastery Learning and Direct
Instruction. Further objectives were to compare the low aptitude student-teachers in their academic
achievement through Mastery Learning and Direct Instruction. Moreover, to compare the academic
achievement of student-teachers having high and low aptitude taught through Direct Instruction and to
compare the academic achievement of Mastery Learning group and Direct Instruction group of
student—teachers.
It was an experimental study. The population of the study consisted of student-teachers enrolled in B.
Ed. programme in Federal College of Education, Islamabad. The sample comprised of 116 student-
teachers of B. Ed. class of Federal College of Education. Research findings revealed that the student-
teachers having high and low aptitude differed in their achievement after teaching them through
Mastery Learning and Direct Instruction respectively, the difference being in favour of those taught
through Mastery Learning. The student-teachers with high and low aptitude did not differ in their
achievement when exposed to teaching through Mastery Learning. The student-teachers with high and
low aptitude however differed in their achievement when exposed to teaching through Direct
Instruction, the difference being in favour of student-teachers having high aptitude. Mastery Learning
was found to be equally effective for student-teachers having high and low aptitude for teaching,
whereas Direct Instruction was found to be effective for student-teachers having high aptitude.
The major recommendations of the study were: Keeping in view the significance of aptitude, the
enrollment selection criteria may suitably be modified. The text, lesson plans, co-curricular activities
and behaviour of teacher may have a positive influence on aptitude. Therefore, these aspects may be
improved and further research may be conducted on these aspects. Instructional material should be
developed based on these two models of teaching for different subjects at different grade levels. These
two models of teaching should be tested on under-achievers and over-achievers in terms of their
achievement.