پروفیسر خورشید الاسلام
پروفیسر خورشید الاسلام ۱۸؍ جون کو علی گڑھ کی خاک کا پیوند ہوگئے، اناﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔
وہ جولائی ۱۹۱۹ء میں مراد آباد اور بجنور کی سرحد پر واقع ایک گاؤں امری میں پیدا ہوئے، یہ اور مشہور شاعر اختر الایمان گہرے دوست تھے اور فتح پوری ہائی اسکول میں ساتھ ہی پڑھتے تھے اور دونوں اسکول کے مشہور ڈبیٹر اور بہترین مقرر تھے، بی اے کرنے کے بعد خورشید الاسلام صاحب کچھ عرصے رسالہ ’’آج کل‘‘ کے سب اڈیٹر رہے اور ۱۹۴۳ء میں ایم اے کرنے کے لیے علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی آئے، یہاں پھر اختر الایمان کا ساتھ ہوا اور دونوں ۱۹۴۴ء میں یونیورسٹی کی نمائندگی کے لیے حیدر آباد گئے اور ہفت روزہ اردو کانگریس میں شریک ہوئے، خورشید الاسلام صاحب ۱۹۴۵ء میں ایم اے کرنے کے بعد علی گڑھ یونیورسٹی کے شعبہ اردو میں لکچرر ہوگئے اور ۱۹۷۳ء میں پروفیسر ہوئے،اور جب پروفیسر آل احمد سرور سبکدوش ہوئے تو یہ صدر شعبہ ہوئے۔
مضمون نگاری شروع کی تو مولانا شبلی پر ہاتھ صاف کیا، مولانا پر ان کا یہ مضمون ان کی کتاب ’’تنقیدیں‘‘ میں شامل ہے، اس کا آغاز اس طرح کیا ہے ’’شبلی پہلے یونانی تھے جو مسلمانوں میں پیدا ہوئے‘‘ بعض لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ یہ مضمون ان کی علمی شہرت کا باعث بنا اور مولانا ابوالکام آزاد نے اس کو بہت پسند کیا، ان کی سفارش پر خورشید صاحب کو لندن یونیورسٹی میں ملازمت مل گئی مگر راقم نے سنا ہے کہ مولانا نے ان کے نام ہی کو غلط قرار دیا کہ اس میں مضاف و مضاف الیہ دولسانی ہیں۔
بہرحال وہ لندن یونیورسٹی میں تدریسی خدمت پر مامور رہے اور آکسفورڈ یونیورسٹی سے شائع ہونے والی اردو انگریزی لغت کے اڈیٹر بھی مقرر ہوئے، انہوں نے یونیسکو پروجیکٹ کے تحت ’’غالبؔ۔ حیات اور...
Our current Islamic literature must adapt the post modem literary trends so as to make it more readable and reader-friendly. It is this optimizing and modernizing trendstylistically that would enhance the worth and readability of Islamic literature. The present article is an effort to review the reader friendly formats for Islamic literature so that it may become more inspiring.
The pollution of the soil and water due to accidental/anthropogenic release of complex hydrocarbons has been a serious environmental problem all over the world.Current study focused on preparation of biochar from fruit and vegetable waste and sewage sludge and its application for bioremediation of diesel polluted soil. Biochar prepared was physio chemically characterized by pH, CEC, FTIR, SEM, EDX, XRD, surface area and pore analysis, proximate analysis, elemental analysis, nutrient analysis and thermogravimetric analysis. Study was conducted at pilot scale. Both types of biochar was applied in diesel polluted soil in a pot experiment in combination with cow dung to evaluate their relative efficacy in bioremediation. Two set ups were run in parallel. In one set up amendments were applied on naturally contaminated soils while in second setup artificially contaminated soil was used. The diesel degradation was estimated by standard curve, FTIR and Gas chromatography.Physicochemical parameters like pH, EC, total carbon, total nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium in soil were analyzed during treatment.Microbiological analysis was performed by CFU count and dehydrogenase activity. Soil microbial diversity was analyzed by Illumina 16S RNA sequencing. Analytical characterization of biochar depicted its crystalline nature with presence of carbon nanotubes and circular pores. Both types of biochar were aromatic, nutrient rich and thermostable materials. Higher percentage yield and ash content was obtained for sludge biochar while high fraction of fixed carbon was recorded in fruit/vegetable waste biochar. Fruit/vegetable waste biochar exhibited larger BET surface area of 52.50m2/g as compared to sludge biochar having surface area of 46.85m2/g. Results of diesel bioremediation studies showed that soil amended with biochar not only increased the soil pH, EC, nutrients and carbon content but also promoted the degradation of hydrocarbons. In Set up 1 diesel oil degradation efficiency recorded was up to 72.27±0.50% for fruit/vegetable waste biochar and 75.63±0.351% for sludge biochar. Highest removal efficiency was for SDN treatment with 82.86±0.60% following VDN treatment with removal capacity of 78.51±0.38%. In Set up 2 having artificially contaminated soil removal efficiency was recorded higher in both VDA and SDA with 76.23±0.42% and 73.24±0.21% while in treatments VA and SA it was 65.28±0.44% and 68.89±0.63% respectively. Highest microbial count and dehydrogenase activity was recorded in treatments having sludge biochar along with cow dung in both Set up 1 and in Set up 2. Microbial study of SDN treatment showing highest bioremediation efficiency indicated the presence of 27 different phyla with predominance of Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria contributing 29% and 19% to total bacterial community. Biochar amendment into soil to degrade hydrocarbons is very important consideration for research purposes and land applications as well. Another study was conducted with application of biochar for soil fertility and crop productivity purposes. In modern agriculture practices, application of biochar for improving soil fertility, plant growth and agriculture output is gaining great deal of attention. Both fruit/vegetable waste biochar and sludge biochar were applied separately and in combination to analyze their effect on wheat growth. Results proved that wheat growth and biomass production was highest at 0.5% concentration of biochar mixture while highest microbial count was observed with 1% sludge biochar. Promising wheat growth and shift in relative abundance of microbial community could be resulted from improvement in soil parameters such EC, total nitrogen and carbon along with phosphorous and potassium content. Our results conclude that the biochar amendment in soil at optimum level improve soil properties and stimulate soil microflora which in turn improves the agricultural performance of soil.