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کہتے ہیں جب سقراط کو زہر کا پیالہ دیا گیا اور اس نے مسکراتے ہوئے اسے اپنے ہو نٹوں سے لگاناچاہا تو اس کے ایک شاگرد نے زار قطار روتے ہوئے کہا ’’استاد مجھے افسوس ہے کہ آپ بے گناہ مارے جائیں گے‘‘سقراط نے زہر کے پیالے کو ذرا اور مضبوطی سے پکڑتے ہوئے کہا میں بے گناہ ضرور مارا جائوں گا لیکن میری یہ بے گناہی مجھے تاریخ میں ہمیشہ زندہ رکھے گی ۔تم اپنا مشن جا ری رکھنا ‘‘حقیقت بھی یہی ہے کہ ابدی زندگی انہی کو نصیب ہو تی ہے جو بے گناہ مارے گئے یا جو کسی عظیم مقصد کی خاطر اپنے نظریے کی صداقت کا پرچم بلند رکھتے ہوئے اپنے خالقِ حقیقی سے جا ملے ،
یہ تاریخ کا فیصلہ ہے کہ آزاد منش لوگوں نے اپنی آزادی کے لیے ہمیشہ رسم دار کو زندہ رکھا ۔ہر زمانے میں کوئی نہ کوئی منصور ضرور پیدا ہو اجس نے اپنے عہدِ وفا کو نبھانے کے لیے اس رسم کو زندہ رکھنے کے لیے یہ علان کیا کہ :
ہم ہیں منصور اس زمانے کے
ہم سے ہی رسمِ دار زندہ ہے
انسانی تاریخ کا جائزہ لیا جائے تو یہ بات واضح ہو جاتی ہے کہ ہنسی خوشی زندگی قربان کرنے کا جذبہ اور سر فروشی کی رسم کے پس منظر میں دو محرکات بہت نمایاں رہے ایک تو مذہب اور دوسرا سیاسی فلسفہ ۔ انسانی وقار اور تقدیس کو زندہ رکھنے والی سوچ اور فکر کی آزادی ضمیر کی آواز کی سر بلندی کے لیے جن لو گوں نے کسی سیاسی پلیٹ فارم پر جد وجہد کی انسانی قدرو ں کی پاسداری اور حقیقی جمہوری معاشرے کے لیے جدو جہد کی بلا شبہ تاریخ انسانی میں ان کا نام ہمیشہ زندہ رہے گا ۔
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The concept of Secularism came to the Muslim world after Renaissance. Historically, the initial thoughts on the subject are found in the teachings of Greek Philosophers like Epicurus and Zeno. It was at first a discussion regarding the separation of religion and the state, the scientific advancements and the regime system in Modern Europe. Religion was considered as an obstacle by the West in their progress on the basis of reason and inquiry. Adaptation of secular approach helped the western countries to flourish in material fields. In Islamic world, secularism was not seen as a threat for religion before the twentieth century. Under colonization of many Muslim countries and particularly after the demise of Ottoman Empire which paved way to abolish Caliphate, the Muslim states adopted various western secular laws. Moreover, the Muslim countries went under heavy debts taken from European countries. They relied on foreign advisors and western education system for progress. The concept regarding the authority of Caliph changed. During the twentieth century, Muslim countries suffered politically and their geographical frontiers were changed. It created a kind of revolution in Muslim states. Revival of religious authority in modern political Muslim states is visible in central eastern countries during the last fifty years.
The Study of Learning Environment to Augment Adult Basic Education in the Domain of Basic Arithmetic Illiteracy is a dilemma. According to report of UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 2016, there are 758 million adults of the age of 15 years and above who can’t read or write a simple sentence. Serious efforts are, therefore, needed to overcome the matter. Apart from application of the traditional methods of education, innovative ways are required to be introduced to address the large scale illiteracy. One of the innovative ways of learning is learning with the aid of technology. Although technology is being used for mainstream education, yet very rare technologyassisted solutions are available for the learning of adult illiterates. The solutions designed for the learning of adult illiterates are targeting functional illiterates (persons who can read and write basic sentences) only. However, the efforts pertinent to the development of technology-assisted educational environment for the absolute illiterate adults (persons who cannot read and write basic sentences) have so far been insignificant. This research aims at achieving the objective of adult education based on technology-assisted solutions. For this objective, contents are designed in 3D environment to develop the numeracy skills in the absolute illiterates. The reason for choosing 3D learning platforms is to reduce the text dominant interfaces so that one of the main barriers to the use of technology in the learning of illiterate adults is addressed. In order to find out the effects of belongings and the usage of the objects of learners’ interest in learning environments, 3D learner-centered environments have been designed and evaluated. Learning environments are mainly divided into two different categories; one is the general environment (non learner-centered, without considering the interests and belongings of learners) and the other is learner-centered designed environment. For this purpose, separate learning environments are designed for each class of ix learners, taking into consideration their interests and belongings. To add the impact of mobile technology on the learning of illiterates, all the applications mentioned above have been designed for android system. Empirical studies have been conducted to find out the significance of the proposed 3D mobile based learning environments. The results of these studies demonstrate that higher learning efficiency is achieved due to incorporation of learners interests and belongings while designing the learning environments.