والدہ ،مولانا سعیداحمد اکبرآبادی
قارئین برہان کویہ معلوم ہوکرصدمہ ہوگا کہ ۲۴؍نومبر کو برادر عزیز مولانا سعیداحمد ایم۔ اے کی والدۂ ماجدہ کاسانحۂ ارتحال پیش آگیا،بڑھاپے کے باوجود ابھی ایسے آثار نہیں پائے جاتے تھے کہ مرحومہ اس قدر جلد پیام اجل کو لبیک کہنے والی ہیں۔ ۱۹؍ نومبر(جمعہ) کی صبح تک بالکل تندرست تھیں۔معمول کے مطابق اپنے اکلوتے بیٹے کے کمرے میں ریڈیو پر کلام پاک سننے کے لیے تشریف لائیں۔قرآن مجید کے بعد نعت سنی، نعت شریف کے بعد مزامیر کے ساتھ سلام شروع ہواتو اسی وقت اٹھ کر اندر چلی گئیں ،بیٹا پکارتا رہا بوا! یہ بھی تو نعت ہی ہے اسے بھی سنتی جاؤ۔بولیں نہیں میاں اس کے ساتھ باجاہے۔ بس یہ آخری گفتگو تھی جو ماں بیٹے میں ہوئی، مولانا سعید احمد کالج چلے گئے۔مشکل سے چند منٹ ہوئے ہوں گے کہ مرحومہ کے جسم کے بائیں حصہ پرفالج کا نہایت خوفناک حملہ ہوا۔اسی وقت بے ہوشی طاری ہوگئی ،مکمل بے ہوشی کی یہ کیفیت آخر وقت تک قائم رہی ،یہاں تک کہ چھٹے روز ۲۴؍ نومبر (چہارشنبہ) کی صبح کوتقریباً ۴ بجے روح جسمِ خاکی سے پرواز کرگئی۔ اناﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون ۔
ان پانچ دنوں میں معالجہ کی بہتر سے بہتر تدبیریں کی گئیں لیکن ساعتِ معین آپہنچی تھی کوئی علاج کامیاب نہیں ہوا اوربالآخر ’’بوا‘‘ ہم سب سے ہمیشہ کے لیے جدا ہوگئیں۔
’’بوا‘‘ آج دنیا میں نہیں ہیں لیکن ان کے اوصاف ان کے چھوٹوں کوہمیشہ یاد رہیں گے، وہ اول درجہ کی کریم النفس، بااخلاق مرنجان و مرنج خاتون تھیں، عابدہ، معتکفہ، زہدواتقاکاپیکر، خاشعات، متصدقات، صائمات، حافظات، ذاکرات کی پہلی صف میں بیٹھنے والیں، جودوسخا اورشفقت ومودت کابے مثل نمونہ، اکلوتے بیٹے کی شادی اس وقت تک نہیں کی جب تک اپنے ساتھ لے جا کراس کوحج نہیں کرالیا،بیٹا ہونے پرمنت بھی مانی تو کیسی انوکھی۔...
We can divide human beings into two categories: Leaders and Followers. Leaders are a few, the rest of the overwhelming majority of the human beings are followers. They show an earnest tendency of following or obligingness towards their leaders. This capacity of the following is exploited and abused by the egoist and toxic leaders to bring destruction to their followers and the world. The author of the paper tries to explore and determine the motives of obligingness or complaisance of blind following. The author studies this phenomenon in the light of theories of the hierarchy of needs by Abraham Maslow, The Situational Factor by Philip Zimbardo, the Function of Labeling by Albert Bandura and Ego Depletion by Michael Cholbi. These theories have earned good acceptance from the experts. The theories are found helpful to understand the mentality of leaders and their followers as described by the Qur’ān. These theories are applied to some selected cases from the Qur’ān to reach a better understanding of the phenomenon. The Qur’ān at many places describes and discusses this human tendency. It presents dialogue between the leaders and their blind followers in the life hereafter, the person of Pharaoh, his maneuvering, his courtiers, the common people of Egypt, the followers of pagan chieftains and their opposition to the prophets give us ample description to know how blind following actually works under the influence of leadership. The author hopes that this study helps understand the mentality of the present day leaders and their blind or complaisant followers.
A significant problem in satellite imagery is geometric distortion. Accurate remote sensing and high resolution satellite images have made it necessary to revise the geometric correction techniques used for ortho-rectification. Conventional methods of photogrammetric modeling of remotely sensed images are insufficient for mapping purposes and need to be substituted with more rigorous approach to get a true orthophoto. FORMOSAT-2, a newly launched remote sensing Taiwanese satellite, has high spatial resolution sensor onboard for a daily revisit orbit. However, like any image acquisition system, it also produces geometric distortions in its raw images. Pixel Projection Model (PPM) was devised by National Space Program Office (NSPO) Taiwan, for processing of Level-1A (Raw) satellite images to Level-2 (radio metrically corrected) images. Being systematically corrected, Level-2 images still possess terrain elevation, rotation-translation and geometric distortions. There was a dire need for enhancement of this model to produce Level-3 (geometrically corrected) image products. A novel method for Level-3 correction of satellite images, especially suited for FORMOSAT-2, has been developed. The PPM has been enhanced to cater for geometric distortions caused by the attitude change in the satellite specifically in the pre-processing stage. The three attitude angles of the satellite are thus calculated and corrected as per the ground position or coordinates using least squares adjustments. The approach is based on non-systematic method in which physical modeling of the satellite imagery is considered. The mathematical model has been developed to calculate and correct instrument bias/ attitude angles. Ground Control Points have been integrated in the algorithm besides vertex matching iifor more precise results. Results were verified by computing MSE for image to image matching and point to point matching. An improvement of 86.3% was obtained for the new Level-3 correction technique over the existing Level-2 algorithm. Three conventional interpolation techniques for transformation of image pixels to earth coordinate system were also analyzed for improvement. The experimental results show that the cubic convolution based modeling is best suited for output pixel value transformation but it is computationally complex with a higher execution time. To improve this, a wavelet- transform based filter (Daubechies 4) was developed for image pixel transformation. The new method provides similar visual interpretation as cubic convolution but with much lower computational complexity and execution time. The proposed wavelet-transform based method is an order of magnitude faster than the cubic interpolation technique. Level-3 geometrically corrected FORMOSAT-2 images can be used for disaster investigation/ prediction, environmental monitoring, vegetation evaluation, and multi- temporal image matching. In our work, we have focused on the application of geometrically corrected imagery for disaster investigation.