مولانا سید محمد ہاشم ندوی
ہمارے لیے تیسرا حادثہ مولانا سید محمد ہاشم ندوی کی وفات کا ہے، وہ ندوہ کے لائق فرزند تھے، جس سال راقم ندوہ میں داخل ہوا ہے ، اسی سال وہ فارغ ہوئے تھے اور حضرت سید صاحب کی سفارش سے اسی زمانہ میں دائرۃ المعارف حیدرآباد میں ملازم ہوگئے تھے، جس سے ریٹائر ہونے تک وابستہ رہے، وہ اس کے اہم رکن تھے، بہت سے کتابیں ان کے اہتمام میں شائع ہوئیں، بعض کی انہوں نے تصحیح بھی کی اور بعض پر مقدمے لکھے، انہوں نے ایک مفید علمی خدمت یہ انجام دی کہ دنیا کے مختلف کتب خانوں میں عربی کی جو اہم اور نادر و نایاب کتابیں ہیں ان کی فن وار فہرست ’’تذکرۃ النوادر‘‘ کے نام سے مرتب کی جو دائرۃ المعارف سے شائع ہوگئی ہے، ملازمت سے سبکدوش ہونے کے بعد حیدرآباد ہی میں متوطن ہوگئے تھے، ان کی صحت عرصہ سے خراب تھی، گذشتہ مہینہ حیدرآباد کے ایک خط سے معلوم ہوا کہ ان کا انتقال ہوگیا، ستر سے کچھ اوپر عمر رہی ہوگی۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ اس خادم علم کی اپنی رحمت و مغفرت سے سرفراز فرمائے۔
(شاہ معین الدین ندوی، جولائی ۱۹۷۱ء)
Some Historians have blamed on Hadrat Hind (R.A) that she mutilated the corpse and chewed the liver of Hadrat Hamza (R.A), which is the cruelty of a specific group of the opponents of Companions. But the Text Book Board of KPK has included exactly these narrations in the curriculum of Urdu compulsory of fifth class. Firstly, this incident was happened before accepting Islam, and when she accepted Islam then there is no blame can be raised upon her on this incident. But definitely, these narrations impact the mind of children. It was necessary to test the authenticity of these narrations before including in curriculum. In this article, some Historical narrations regarding Hadrat Hind (R.A) have been chosen, and some authentic narrations from Ahadith Books have been presented in order to reject these Historical narrations in a scholarly manner.
Protean Power Structures and the Problematic Standing of Post 9/11 Pakistani Fiction in English This thesis engages Critical Discourse Analysis as a tool to explore and analyse the problematic standing of post-9/11 Pakistani Fiction in English. Taking on board the Foucaultian notions of discourse, along with assumptions from the socio-political domains, this study is an attempt to understand the influence of the fluctuant post-9/11 episteme on the aims of this genre of fiction as it negotiates with its dispositive. This study investigates whether post-9/11 Pakistani Fiction in English can engender a new discourse and a new subject identity in relation to global power structures within the contemporary liminal temporal space and whether it is a part of the dominating discourse, reinforcing domination, or if it is resisting the hegemonic discourse. My thesis also investigates how individual subject identities are constructed in the fluctuating global dispositive created after 9/11. In doing so, it analyses the semantic macrostructures present in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows and H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy in relation to the socio-political discourses and the varying epistemic paradigms that are shaping Muslim identity in the post-9/11 scenario. It then proceeds to explore the alteration in the subject identities of the major characters of these novels and the choices that they make not only in relation to the global dispositive that is governed by American interests, but also in relation to Islam and Muslims. In doing so, these novels do not only take Muslim characters within their purview, they also bring into focus American characters and the patterns of their orientation towards Muslims. Through an analysis of these elements, this thesis argues that while this genre of fiction cannot radically alter the post 9/11 global episteme, however, since it is a discoursal subject of two opposite ideological outlooks, it functions from within the dominant power structure to raise vital questions that can bring about a rapprochement between the antipodal Muslims and the West. In using English as a medium of expression, this genre is not merely the point of rupture within the existing socio-political discourses, it also offers an ideological detente between the hegemonic order and it’s Other, i.e., the Muslim world.