ڈاکٹر سید عبدالعلی
افسوس ہے کہ گزشتہ ماہ مئی کی۷/تاریخ کوناظم ندوۃ العلماء لکھنؤ ڈاکٹر سید عبدالعلی صاحب ۶۸برس کی عمرمیں رہ گزائے عالم جاودانی ہوگئے۔مرحوم اپنی ذات سے ایک انجمن اورگوناگوں اوصاف وکمالات کامخزن تھے اور اس حیثیت سے ہمارے فاضل دوست مولانا سید ابوالحسن علی میاں کے صحیح معنی میں برادراکبر تھے۔علم وفضل کایہ عالم کہ علوم دینیہ اوراسلامیہ کی تکمیل ندوۃ اوردیوبند دونوں جگہ کی تھی جوان علوم کے لیے مرکز کی حیثیت رکھتے ہیں، پھر علوم جدیدہ کی طرف توجہ کی تو سائنس کے اعلیٰ درجہ کے گریجویٹ ہوئے اور ادھر طبیب فاضل وحاذق اور ادھر ایم۔بی ۔بی۔ ایس اوراس تقریب سے ایلوپیتھک طریقۂ علاج کے بھی ماہر، غرض کہ قدیم وجدید کایہ امتزاج شاید ہی کسی اورجگہ اس نوعیت کاملے۔علاوہ بریں نیک طینتی،پاک نہادی اورحسن اخلاق وشمائل میں ہوبہو سلف صالحین کا نمونہ، روحانیت اورانابت الی اﷲ میں جنید وشبلی کویاد دلانے والے،بے حد قانع، خوددار وبے نیاز،فیاض وسخی،کشادہ جبین وفرخندہ خو،کم سخن وکم گو۔ انھوں نے اپنے برادر خورد علی میاں اوراپنی اولاد کی جس جذبۂ دینداری وخداپرستی کے ساتھ تربیت کی اورجس کے نمونے آج ہرشخص کے سامنے موجود ہیں، وہ ہمارے ملک کے بہت سے اکابر علماء ومشائخ کے لیے مایۂ ہزارگونہ عبرت وموعظت ہے۔ برسوں سے ندوۃ العلماء کے ناظم تھے۔مرحوم کے عہد میں اس درسگاہ کے طلباء میں جو دینداری اورخالص اسلامی جذبہ پیداہوا وہ غالباً خود سید صاحب کے عہد میں نہ تھا! الغرض عجیب وغریب قسم کے علمی وعملی کمالات کے بزرگ تھے۔اﷲ تعالیٰ جنت الفردوس میں ابرار و اتقیا کامقام جلیل عطافرمائے۔آمین
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This study is conducted to analyze the novel Bina Shah’ novel A Season for Martyrs, from the perspective of New Historicism. This novel presents history of Sindh blended with fiction. It highlights the main Historical events of Sindh; from the arrival of the British in 1827 and occupation of Sindh by Charles Napier till the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in present century. Shah has narrated the history to show its link with the present political and social situation of Sindh. The novel has focused social and political discourses of Sindhi society such as: Significance of love with the land and people’ faith in mystics. The novel has narrated various myths and tales about famous mystics belonging to Sindh. The novel presents story of Ali, a young media reporter, who faces identity problem because of social and psychological issues but when he realizes that his land needs his services, he becomes political activist. This study analyses historical facts and some social and political discourses presented in the novel. Effort is done to interpret the novel according to the theory. Cultural context and social environment of the author is analyzed by observing facts from her social and personal life. Social and political situation of present era are discussed to find the impact of present situation on the interpretation of the author.
Plants play a vital role for the existence of life in the Universe. They not only provide food to animals and humans, but also synthesize chemicals which are used for their own defense as well as being used by man as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals etc. God has gifted Pakistan with enormous varieties of medicinal plants. Out of these plants only 20 % have been studied for their therapeutic potential. Therefore, there is a need of coordinated and well organized efforts in the area of chemistry of indigenous medicinal plants of Pakistan. The present Ph.D. thesis deals with the phytochemical studies on three indigenous medicinal plants of Pakistan namely Plumeria rubra, Plumeria obtusa and Salsola imbricata. The whole thesis is divided into 6 chapters. Chapter 1 offers the introduction of natural product chemistry and economical and pharmaceutical role of Family Apocynaceae and Chenopodaceae on living organism and human health. Chapter 2 deals with the study of various classes of bioactive secondary metabolites obtained from plants, marine organism and fungi. This chapter provides an overview of secondary metabolites their occurrence in natural sources, their economical role as pesticide, drugs, Page 16 agrochemicals, toxins and pharmaceutical and their biological effects on living organisms. Chapter 3 describes the genus Plumeria, its economical, pharmacological and phytochemical properties. In this chapter the pharmacology of various isolates from the genus Plumeria and biological activities of various species and their extract has been discussed. Almost all the phytochemical isolated up to date from the various species of Plumeria has been assembled year wise in this chapter. Chapter 4 is divided into two parts. Part A deals with the phytochemical studies of Plumeria rubra, including structure elucidation and experimental detail of isolated secondary metabolites from this specie. The methanolic extract of this plant was divided into hexane and ethyl acetate. The ethyl acetate soluble part yielded five new compounds: a flavanone glycoside; rubranonoside (161), a sphingolipid; rubranin (162), an iridoid galactoside; rubridoidside (163), two nor-terpenoids; rubrajaleelol (164) and rubrajaleelic acid (165) together with 1-a-plumieride (87), plumieride p-Z-coumarate (133) and plumieride-p-E-coumarate (134), oleanolic acid (114) and b-sitosterol glucoside (166) on column chromatography. Their structures were assigned by ID and 2D-NMR in combination with EIMS, HR-EIMS and FAB-MS techniques. Structures of the known compounds were determined due to spectroscopic analyses or in comparison with the literature. Among them, 87 and 133 are the reported for the first time from this specie. The structure elucidation of these compounds is in process of publication in peer reviewed journal