محمد فاروق نعمانی
افسوس ہے کہ ۲۶ و ۲۷؍ اپریل کی درمیانی شب میں جناب محمد فاروق نعمانی نے الٰہ آباد میں داعی اجل کو لبیک کہا، وہ مولانا شبلی کے برادر زادہ اور مولوی محمد اسحق صاحب وکیل ہائی کورٹ کے صاحبزادے تھے، جو اعظم گڑھ میں مولانا کے علمی و تعلیمی اور خاندانی جائداد اور زمینداری کے کاموں میں ان کے خاص دست و بازو تھے، ان کے انتقال پر مولانا نے ایسا پُر درد مرثیہ لکھا جو اردو کی عزائیہ شاعری میں بے مثال ہے، فاروق صاحب اس وقت کم سن تھے، اس کی طرف مولانا نے اس شعر میں اشارہ کیا ہے۔
لاڈلے ہیں کہ کسی اور کے بس کے بھی نہیں
اس کے بچے ابھی سات آٹھ برس کے بھی نہیں
فاروق صاحب شبلی کالج کے پرجوش اور سرگرم ممبر تھے، دارالمصنفین سے بھی ان کو گہرا اور جذباتی تعلق تھا، یہاں کی دعوتوں اور مجلسوں میں شریک رہتے، صوم و صلوٰۃ کے پابند تھے، لاگ لپیٹ ان کو نہیں آتا تھا۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ مغفرت فرمائے اور پس ماندگان کو صبر جمیل عطا کرے، آمین۔ (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی۔ مئی ۱۹۹۷ء)
Nowadays the entire world, particularly the Islamic countries, are suffering from a state of anxiety and insecurity due to terrorism. The terrorists are destroying peace of the world for the sake of their personal interests. They affiliate their terrorist activities with Islām, while Islām condemns not only terrorism, but also the violation of the country law. Islām is the religion of peace. Allāh, peace of title the with (صلى الله عليه وسلم) Muhammad Prophet His sent Almighty and granted him the name of religion as Islām. The Holy Prophet in harmony and peace of facade the build to life his all spent (صلى الله عليه وسلم) the society. His companions also exhibited human loving nature and. (صلى الله عليه وسلم) Prophet Holy the by them to provided roadmap the followed Ḥaḍrat Uthmān is one of those, who sacrificed themselves for the noble cause of peace. In this article, the remarkable efforts of Ḥaḍrat Uthmān for the maintainance of peace are highlighted. He was commited to peace even before Islām, and after accepting it, he played a vital role for the promotion and maintaince of peace. He the at (صلى الله عليه وسلم) prophet the of ambassador the as appointed was occasion of the Ḥudaybiyah Pact. Uthmān ruled a vast empire. Peace was a hallmark of his era. The evil plots against him surfaced only in the later years of his caliphate. These included objections regarding appointment and administration of the governers. He took every step to stop the disruption of peace, so much so, he did not allow the Muslims to fight for his defence, hence, sacrificed his life.
The news generation in the digital environment is no longer a periodic process with a fixed single output like printed newspaper. The news are instantly generated and updated online in a continuous fashion. However, because of different reasons like the short lifespan of digital information and speed of generation of information, it has become vital to preserve digital news for the long-term. Digital preservation includes various actions to ensure that digital information remains accessible and usable, as long as they are considered important. Libraries and archives preserve newspapers by carefully digitizing collections as newspapers are a good source of knowing history. The lifespan of news stories published online vary from one newspaper to another, that is, from one day to a month or even more. Though a newspaper may be backed up and archived by the news publisher or national archives, in the future it will be difficult to access particular information published in various newspapers about the same news. The issues become more complicated if a story is to be tracked through a multi-lingual archive of many online newspapers, which require different access technologies. Based on prior studies, a ten step systematic approach is introduced for web preservation, which lead to create an effective web archive and followed to create the intended digital news stories archive using digital news stories extractor. Initially, the archive is enriched with three English newspapers, enhanced to ten online newspaii pers and then upgraded to dual language (Urdu and English) news articles archive, extracted from fifteen online news sources. The news stories archive preserve about 360 Urdu and 850 English news articles, periodically crawled every second day using digital news stories extractor tool. The main goal of the dissertation was to link digital news stories duration preservation using text processing techniques. To achieve the goal, the formulated text processing similarity measures are applied for linking two types of news articles, that is, to link English news (English-to-English) and dual languages (Urdu-to-English) news articles in the archive. To linking English news articles in the archive, the study proposed five contentbased similarity measures that find similarity based upon news content features and link news articles during preservation. The measures compute similarity value among news articles based on features like number of terms, named entities, named entities position, title terms, and position of terms in the titles, etc. The measures are evaluated on to same news articles sets, of different size and compared with human based judgment in order to evaluate the accuracy and assess the effectiveness, worth and significance of designed similarity measures for linking English news articles. The results showed that the proposed measures presented are feasible for linking English news articles in the news stories archive. The selection of measure depends upon the performance of that measure in a specific category, for example, a measure can perform better on a category “Opinion”. All the proposed measures are evaluated for six categories of news articles and the results are mutually compared with two known text based similarity measures to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of proposed measure in the best fitted scenario. The pre-processing step in any web preservation project is of utmost importance because the intensions are to archive the targeted contents, especially, in a language which doesn’t have any sophisticated tools and techniques. To link dual languages news articles in the archive, Urdu news articles needs extensive pre-processing, which leads to create an Urdu bag of words and dictionary containing 50502 words and 78739 pairs of Urdu words with English meanings respectively. The study proposed five content-based similarity measures that find similarity based upon news content features and link Urdu-to-English news articles during preservation. The measures are applied to the same news articles sets, of different sizes and mutually compared. The results showed that three of the proposed measures presented appreciable results for linking dual-lingual news articles in the archive, which can be improved by improving the structure and contents of the Urdu dictionary. In summary, the performance of different measures has been evaluated individually for linking digital news articles in the digital news story archive to make sure the accessibility of these news articles in the future from this enormous collection.