قرۃ العین حیدر
اردو کی مشہور ادیبہ اور رجحان ساز افسانہ و ناول نگار محترمہ قرۃالعین حیدر ۲۱؍ اگست ۲۰۰۷ء کو انتقال کرگئیں، ان کی پیدائش ۲۶؍ جنوری ۱۹۲۶ء کو علی گڑھ میں ہوئی تھی جہاں ان کے والد سید سجاد حیدر یلدرم مسلم یونیورسٹی میں رجسٹرار تھے، مگر ان کی تعلیم لکھنو کے کرامت حسین گرلس کالج، آئی۔ٹی کالج اور لکھنو یونیورسٹی میں ہوئی تھی۔
قرۃالعین کے والد اور والدہ نذر سجاد حیدر بھی اردو کے بڑے انشا پرداز تھے، جن کی روایت کو قرۃالعین نے بہت آگے بڑھایا، انہوں نے کم سنی ہی سے لکھنا شروع کیا تھا اور ناول، ناولٹ، افسانے، رپورتاژ، سفر نامے سب میں اپنے جوہر دکھائے، انہیں اردو ادب کی ورجینا وولف کہا جاتا ہے۔
ادبی دنیا میں ان کو جو شہرت و مقبولیت نصیب ہوئی وہ کم لوگوں کو ملی، بعض رسالوں نے ان کی زندگی ہی میں ان کے گوشے نکالے تھے، انہوں نے ایک اچھی اور کامیاب مترجم کی حیثیت سے بھی شہرت حاصل کی، کئی کتابوں کے اردو سے انگریزی میں اور انگریزی سے اردو میں ترجمے کئے، ہنری جیمز کے ناول ’’پورٹریٹ آف اے لیڈی‘‘ کا ترجمہ ’’ہمیں چراغ، ہمیں پروانے‘‘ کے نام سے کیا تھا، شروع میں ان کا تعلق انگریزی صحافت سے بھی رہا، انہوں نے بی بی سی سے براڈکاسٹ کے فرائض بھی انجام دیے۔
قرۃالعین کے ناولوں میں آگ کا دریا، آخر شب کے ہم سفر، کا رجہاں دراز ہے، میرے بھی صنم خانے، چاندنی بیگم، سفینہ غم دل، گردش رنگ چمن اور افسانوی مجموعوں میں پت جھڑ کی آواز، ستاروں سے آگے اور شیشے کا گھر وغیرہ ہیں، آگ کا دریا اور آخر شب کے ہم سفر کو اردو ادب کا شاہ کار خیال کیا جاتا ہے۔
تقسیم ہند کے بعد قرۃالعین اپنے خاندان کے ساتھ پاکستان چلی گئی تھیں...
In the status and degrees of spirituality, the highest ranking position is prophecy and apostleship in which a person gets free feeds and knowledge from the creator of the universe and then with this light and illumination brightens the hearts of other mankind. Indeed, it is an unusual claim that a prophet or a messenger does and in fact it requires strong evidences to prove. That’s why all prophets are awarded some qualities, discriminations, signs and evidences from Allah Almighty through which people clearly get awareness and acknowledgement. Such things are “Signs and Evidences of Prophecy” in which the greatest sign is “miracle”. The basic question of this article is that what are signs, evidences and arguments of prophecy in Sharaf-ul-Muṣṭafa and Al-Shifā? And what are their present implementation and importance? These books are famous for the dignity and rights of Prophet (S.A.W) and researched by scholars as a whole on their writers, contents, and methodology but not yet studied in this perspective. In this article few most important of them are selected and analyzed. Innocence and pure race, miraculous appearance, personality, debonairness, eloquence, stamp of prophet-hood, miracles and being illiterate etc. All are symptoms of prophecy of Muhammad (S.A.W). In contemporary situation the best way to prove truthfulness and greatness of Prophet (S.A.W) is to focus on better scientific, rational, logical and practical aspects of Muhammad’s (S.A.W) life and we have to apply it.
The demand of 21st century is to develop the learner’s potential to become critical thinkers, effective problem solvers and decision makers. This is possible when a teacher provides learning opportunities to the students to develop their data analysis skills. My study aimed to understand the data analysis skills of the science students who are engaged in inquiry in science. For this purpose, three inquiry activities were designed to teach three science concepts on the topic ‘Effects of Heat Energy”. A qualitative research design was used to respond to my research question in this study. Six student of Grade VIII from Leading Stars Private Secondary School (Pseudonym) Karachi participated in this study, among them two were girls and four were boys. The data was obtained through field notes and videos recordings. Later the data was analyzed by breaking videos into segments to find the themes and their meanings. After that video transcription of selected segments of the lesson was done by listening and writing every sentence or phrase of each individual student. Then the summary of the videotaped lesson was made. After transcribing the segments of the video and writing the summary of lessons, identified some themes that were emerged from the lessons and explained those themes in detail. The findings of my study reveal that majority of the students demonstrated analysis skills such as (identifying relevant science concepts from the activity being demonstrated, applying previously learnt concepts, identifying the procedure that is being followed and giving a reason for the phenomena at hand) well in all three inquiry activities. However, analysis skills such as (suggesting a solution for the problem at hand and articulating a conclusion) were less used in three inquiry activities and poorly developed in majority of the students. This study also indicates that students improve their analysis skills more in an interactive learning environment and the skills which are normally used by the students in their daily science classroom are found to be improved. So, it becomes very essential to improve data analysis skills of the students by employing creative teaching strategies to bring innovation in teaching and learning science.