اعجاز صدیقی
افسوس ہے ہمارے عزیز دوست اوربچپن کے ساتھی جناب اعجاز صدیقی کاپچھلے دنوں بمبئی میں اچانک انتقال ہوگیا۔اناﷲ واناالیہ راجعون۔
مرحوم مولانا سیماب اکبر آبادی کے فرزند ارجمند اوراُن کے خاص تربیت یافتہ تھے۔اردو کے بلندپایہ اورقادرالکلام شاعر توتھے ہی، بڑی بات یہ ہے کہ فن کے اصول وفروع اوراُس کے رموزونکات اورزبان کے قواعد اوراُس کے مصطلحات پر اُن کی نگاہ وسیع اوردقیق تھی، اس بناء پر وہ نقاد بھی بہت اچھے تھے۔نثر بھی شگفتہ لکھتے تھے۔تقسیم کے بعد آگرہ کے حالات ناقابل برداشت ہوئے اور وہاں رہنا دشوار ہوگیا توبمبئی منتقل ہوگئے۔یہاں اُن کوسخت پریشانیوں اوردشواریوں سے سابقہ پیش آیا لیکن انھوں نے بڑی ہمت اورجواں مردی سے ان سب کا مقابلہ کیا۔ ’’شاعر‘‘کو نہ صرف یہ کہ جاری رکھا، اُس کوبہتر سے بہتر بنانے کی کوششوں میں لگے رہے اورآخر کاربمبئی ایسے غدارشہر میں اپنا ایک خاص مرتبہ ومقام حاصل کرنے میں کامیاب ہوئے۔ اُن کو اردو سے عشق تھا، تقسیم کے نتیجہ میں اُس پر جو بپتا پڑی تھی، مرحوم عمر بھراُس کا ماتم کرتے اوراُس کی اصلاح کی جدوجہد کرتے رہے۔طبعاً بڑے خوش خلق،غیورو خوددار،باوضع اور نہایت محنتی اور جفاکش انسان تھے۔ اُن کی وفات سے اردو اپنی فوج کے ایک بہت بڑے مجاہد سے محروم ہوگئی۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ اُن کومغفرت وبخشش کی نعمتوں سے نوازے۔
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Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani is one of the leading Deoband Hanafi Islamic Scholars living today from Pakistan. He is the son of late Molana Muhammad Shafi, the grand mufti of Pakistan. He is the brother of Islamic scholars Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Muhammad Wali Razi, Muhammad Razi Usmani as well as of Urdu poet Muhammad Zaki Kaifi. He is regarded as an expert in the fields of Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Economics and Tasawwuf. He served as a judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1980 to 1982 and the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan between 1982 and 2002. He is generally known as one of the leading Shariah Scholars active in the field of Islamic finance. For more than a decade he has served as Chairman or Member of Shariah Supervisory boards of a dozen Islamic banks and prestigious financial institutions in various parts of the world. Allah Almighty has blessed him with the writing skill. He has written translations of the Holy Quran in both English and Urdu. He has been writing on various Islamic topics in Arabic, Urdu & English and is author of more than 70 books and numerous articles, published in a number of journals and magazines. In his books, Justice Taqi Usmani has discussed the solutions of individual, collective, social, political and economic problems in the light of Islamic principles. His books are very famous not only in Pakistan but also in India, Malaysia, Bangladesh and many other countries in the world. With this perspective, the present article deals with the introduction of important books of Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani.
Two hundred and sixty nine species of algae belonging to six phyla, two classes, fifteen orders, thirty three families and seventy five genera have been collected from various freshwater habitats of Pakistan from Gujranwala, Gujrat, Narowal and Sialkot in the province of Punjab, during March 2013 to August 2015. All species have been morphologically and cytologically investigated. All were taxonomically identified and described on the basis of their characteristics according to the recently proposed classification (Shameel, 2001, 2012). From the taxonomic studies of algae from North-east Punjab, Phylum Cyanophycota observed with twenty eight genera and 120 species in two orders that were found to be more prevalent in algal diversity (45.60%) than the phylum Bacillariophyota, which included eighteen genera and forty species in two orders and thus was smaller phylum (14.87%) in algal diversities than Cyanophycota diversity. The result of that Nostocophyceae (31.59%) observed most highly distributed class with single order Nostocales and 6 families with 19 genera and 85 species as compare to the other Cyanophyota class chroocophyceae (13.02%) with 09 genera and 35 species (Table 1). Phylum Volvocophycota revealed with thirteen genera and forty three species in three orders with 15.85% than the phylum Euglenophycota, which included four genera and twenty three species in one order with 8.55% taxonomic distribution in north-east, Punjab, Pakistan. Whereas Phylum Chlorophycota revealed with eleven genera and twenty six species in six orders with 13.38% than the Phylum Vaucheriophycota that included 2 genera and seven species in two orders (Table 2). Great proportion of Cyanophycota (45.60%) was made from north-east Punjab, Pakistan where Phylum Volvocophycota shown 15.98% of algal distribution. It was followed by phylum Bacillariophycota (14.87%), Phylum Chlorophycota (13.38%), Phylum Euglenophycota (8.55%) and Phylum Vaucheriophycota (2.60%) respectively.