آہ! جناب چودہری سبط محمد نقوی
۱۸؍ فروری ۲۰۰۵ء کو جناب چودہری سبط محمد نقوی بھی داغ مفارقت دے گئے، وہ ۷۹ برس کے تھے، انتقال سے چند ہفتے پہلے سڑک کے ایک حادثے میں شدید زخمی ہوگئے تھے، علاج کے لیے لکھنو میڈیکل کالج میں داخل ہوئے اور کسی قدر شفایاب ہوئے تو لکھنو میں اپنی رہایش گاہ پر آگئے، ایام عزا شروع ہونے سے پہلے عشرہ مجالس میں شرکت کے لیے اپنے آبائی وطن اکبر پور چلے آئے، ایک رات اچانک طبیعت زیادہ خراب ہوگئی اور دسویں محرم آنے سے پہلے ہی انتقال فرماگئے۔
مرحوم کی تعلیم و تربیت لکھنو میں فرقہ امامیہ کی درس گاہوں میں ہوئی تھی، وہ اس فرقہ کے اکثر معروف و ممتاز خاندانوں سے بہ خوبی واقف تھے، اکثر عماید و مشاہیر علما کے صحبت یافتہ تھے، لکھنو اور اودھ کے اکثر علمی، تعلیمی، دینی، ادبی اور سیاسی حلقوں میں وہ مقبول و متعارف تھے، اہل تسنن سے بھی ان کے تعلقات تھے اور ان کے اصحاب علم کے قدر شناس تھے، مرحوم کی نماز جنازہ دونوں فرقوں کے اماموں نے پڑھائی، مولانا شبلیؒ کے بڑے مداح اور عظمت شناس تھے، مولانا نے موازنہ انیس و دبیر لکھا تو شیعوں اور سنیوں کا بھی ایک طبقہ ان سے بہت برہم ہوا لیکن مرحوم سبط محمد صاحب مولانا کے ہم نوا تھے جس کا برملا اظہار اپنی تحریروں اور ملاقاتوں میں کرتے تھے، دارالمصنفین سے بھی والہانہ تعلق رکھتے تھے اور اس کے معتدل روش کو بہت پسند کرتے تھے، جناب سید صباح الدین عبدالرحمن مرحوم، مولوی حافظ عمیر الصدیق اور راقم سے بہت مخلصانہ تعلق رکھتے تھے، اپنے علمی و تحقیقی کاموں کے سلسلے میں یہاں تشریف بھی لاتے تھے، ۱۹۷۰ء کی دہائی میں غالباً پہلی بار یہاں تشریف لائے تو قریباً ایک ماہ قیام کیا اور جانے کے بعد...
The Holy Qur’an is miraculous in its words, methods, organization, statements, drawings and writing, as cited and agreed by all researchers, we aim through this research to: define the Ottoman drawing in Arabic language, terminologically, demonstrating its benefits, the rule of commitment to it, weighing between sayings, demonstrating its six rules, explaining and discussing the differences between the Quranic words drawings and mentioning several examples. The most important results of this research are: 1- The opinion which comforts one's self is the commitment to Ottoman drawing, and not to be written by modern spelling methods. 2- The Ottoman drawing has multiple benefits and advantages, which are not available in any other, so that it attracts commitment and reservation. 3- It has a very significant concurrence between the drawing and the meaning of the words and verses of Quran. 4- The Qura’nic word drawing strengthens the meaning and gives the full dimensions; achieving the honesty of Allah's saying: "and whose words can be truer than those of Allah?". 5- The letters' contiguity of Quranic word, knowing its characteristics embodies the meaning with the best picture. 6- The miracle of Ottoman drawing is a modern issue that Abdalaziz Ad-Dabbagh calls the most famous and the oldest one who declared this. The most important recommendations made in this article are: 1- Conducting more researches about the benefits of Ottoman drawing, where it still needs more studies to be conducted, and more thoughts and meditations. 2- The spread of Ottoman drawing commitment culture between Quran teachers and students. 3- Obligating all Quranic associations that adopts Quran writing to write in Ottoman drawing, and prevent any other forms of writing. 4- Obligating all students and researchers to depend on Ottoman drawing through their studies and researches; which establishes a promotion to spread its culture. 5- Guiding the researchers for more studies on this topic, throughout a focused studies and clear scientific plans.
The study aimed to explore the current status of library and information science education regarding program offerings, faculty, students, curriculum, and infrastructural resources. It further explored the challenges faced in imparting quality education and the future prospects. A mixed methods research design (convergent parallel strategy) combining quantitative and qualitative methods was used to achieve the objectives of the research. The quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire survey from nine universities where LIS departments were well established and regularly offering academic programs with a 100% response rate. The qualitative data were gathered through semi-structured interviews from 17 faculty members purposively selected to obtain their real perspective on various aspects related to the research questions. The findings of both strands have been converged and discussed along with the review of the existing literature in the ‗Discussion‘ chapter. The major drifts and concerns identified were a lack of planning, dearth of physical, financial and technological resources, inadequate curriculum contents, lack of faculty, intake of weak students, the absence of quality assurance system, scarcity of collaboration, and low social image and visibility of the departments. The expansion of academic programs to encompass a broader ‗information‘ landscape, inclusion of ICTs into the curriculum, imparting a balanced blend of subject, research, technological and generic skills, were the major challenges to prepare future professionals. Moreover, the availability of competent faculty with PhD degrees, increased competition from other disciplines (i.e., management, computer science, communication studies) and building employers‘ confidence were also discussed concerns. The development of a quality assurance mechanism through accreditation, rebranding the profession to uplift its social image and initiatives for national and international collaboration were the challenges to ensure future sustainability of academic programs in the country. Moving towards ‗information‘, a trend of obtaining a doctoral degree among the available faculty, increased research output, expansion in the academic programs level, focus on curriculum innovation and quality, expanding job sector other than library and above all positive attitude of faculty about the future of academic programs were the promising prospects of LIS education in the country. The study‘s recommendations primarily focused on moving towards information, redesigning and revising the curriculum to accommodate new trends and offering need based specializations to capture the job market. Enticing competent and diversified faculty by involving experts form related fields, attracting intake of good students by revising admission criteria, and accrediting academic offerings were considered vital for ensuring LIS education to remain relevant.