نکلنا خلد سے آدم کا۔۔۔
آس کی خوشبو یاس کی بد بو پرہمیشہ غالب آتی ہے
یوں محسوس ہو رہا تھا
جیسے دل میں اِ ک آگ سی لگی ہو
اور سب کچھ اس بھٹی میں جھونک رہا ہوں
اس بھٹی کو صرف آنسو ہی ٹھنڈا کر سکتے تھے
لیکن !وہ بھی لب ِ مژگاں تک آتے آتے مر گئے
کتنی مشکل سے محبت کے تارو پود سے سنہری خواب بنے تھے
مگرایک تار کے نکل جانے سے
سب خواب نیند کی وادیوں میں کہیں کھو گئے ہیں
حیف!میرے دھندلے خواب
جو میں کسی کی آنکھوں سے دیکھ رہا تھا
یوں لگتا ہے جیسے
میرا بھی شمار اُن سوختہ سروںمیں ہوتا ہے
جو بحرِ محبت میں بنا کشتی اور پتوار کے اتر گئے تھے
مجھے اپنی عادتوں پردکھ ہے
جو پھر سے خراب ہو جائیں گی
جنہیں اک عرصہ بدلنے میں لگا تھا
یہ آدم اور آدم زاد کے نصیب میں لکھا جا چکا ہے
کہ اس کا کبھی ایک ٹھکانہ ہو ہی نہیں سکتا
کبھی یہ بہشت سے نکالا جاتا ہے
کبھی اپنے گھر سے دربدر ہوتا ہے تو کبھی شہر سے
کبھی کسی کی زندگی سے توکبھی کسی کے دل سے
یزداں نے بھی انسان کے ساتھ کیاخوب کھیل کھیلا ہے
اسے فاصلوں میںالجھائے رکھتا ہے
In view of the geo-politics of the twenty first century where despite the concerted efforts of the international community to maintain peace on the globe, the still is confronted with the wars and its worst consequences. One of the reasons for such unhappy developments is that religion is most of the time considered as war-mongering. This may be somewhat true in case of certain cases; however, the case of Islam is totally different. The very word Islam stands for peace. It was revealed on Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who remained an icon of peace and mercy for the whole Mankind. This paper was an attempt to highlight some of the guiding injunctions of Islam together with the peace-related overtures of the Last Prophet of Allah. The problem under study was to explore, “The Holy Prophet (SAW) as an embodiment of Peace—an analysis of extracts from the text of The Holy Quran and Sunnah”. The objectives were: 1, to highlight some of the commandments of Islam regarding peace; and 2, to pinpoint some of the peace-promoting instances from the life of the Holy Prophet (SAW). The methodology adopted was to highlight some of the peace-promoting text of the Holy Quran coupled with instances from the life of the Holy Prophet (SAW). It was found that Islam stands as religion for peace. The last messenger of Allah was a complete embodiment of peace in His disposition and practice. Hence the very text of the Holy Quran as ell as the life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) provide some very cherished ideals and norms for the establishment of a peaceful global community.
This research focuses on generating an in-depth understanding of social innovation process from the perspective of sectoral system of innovation (SSI). It addresses knowledge gaps derived from a systematic literature review and exhibits novelty by linking social innovation process with sectoral system of innovation as demonstrated in the conceptual framework. Moreover, four research objectives and twelve research questions have been formulated mainly focusing on the building blocks of social innovation process theory that is the six stages and the SSI theory particularly the elements and structure, along with important factors that influence the process. This study is empirically rooted in the context of public sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pakistan. Taking influence from pragmatism as its underlying research paradigm, case study strategy along with exploratory sequential mixed methods design has been used. Accordingly, the research questions dominated the researcher’s approach towards data collection and analysis including their design and implementation. Following a multiple case and holistic design, three separate but very important cases that is, social innovation projects have been selected. These include (a) Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU), (b) Sehat Ka Insaf (SKI) and (c) Mobile Court (MC). A case study protocol has been applied to increase reliability. Research findings reveal that social innovations take place in the form of new services addressing social needs and creating public value. The stages of social innovation process initially occur in a linear and later in a non-linear sequence, with overlapping spaces. However, these social innovations do not fully go through all stages of the process specifically sustainability (except in one case) and systemic change (in all the cases). The elements and structure of sectoral system including actors, knowledge base, technologies, learning processes, resources, demand, formal and informal institutions, and interactions facilitate the prompts, inspirations and diagnoses, proposals of ideas, prototyping and pilots, and scaling and diffusion of social innovation but interestingly do not facilitate it during the sustaining stage. Moreover, a comprehensive list of 44 important factors that influence the social innovation process has been developed through a rigorous process and presented in the form of a unique taxonomy that can prove to be very useful for policy makers when designing future interventions. This research also offers a number of other theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions along with recommendations.