مولوی عبدالباری
افسوس ہے کہ دارالمصفین کے قدیم اور مخلص خدمت گذار مولوی عبدالباری صاحب ۳۰؍ جون کو وفات پاگئے، ان کی عمر ۹۰ سال سے متجاوز تھی، دارالمصنفین کے ابتدائی دور میں حضرت مولانا سید سلیمان ندویؒ نے انہیں تصحیح اور کتب خانہ کی نگرانی کے کام پر مامور کیا تھا جس کو دو برس پہلے تک وہ انجام دیتے رہے، دارالمصنفین کے عروج کا دور دیکھنے والے اب تنہا وہی رہ گئے تھے، ان کی تعلیم مدرسۃ الاصلاح سرائمیر میں ہوئی تھی اور وہ مولانا امین اصلاحی مدظلہ، کے ہم سبق تھے، دارالمصنفین سے وابستگی کی وجہ سے انہیں مضمون نگاری کا چسکہ لگ گیا تھا، ابو علی اثری اور ابو علی اعظمی کے نام سے مدۃالعمر اخباروں اور رسالوں میں مضامین لکھتے رہے، علامہ شبلیؒ کے بڑے مداح اور سیدصاحب کے نہایت عقیدت مند تھے، ان کا ذکر برابر لطف ولذت سے کرتے تھے ان پر اور مولانا ابو الکلام آزاد پر بے شمار مضامین لکھے، دونوں بزرگوں پر ان کے مضامین کے ایک ایک مجموعے ضیاء اﷲ کھوکھر صاحب (گوجرانوالہ، پاکستان) نے شایع کیا تھا، اپنی خودداری کی وجہ سے کسی کا منت کش ہونا گوارا نہیں کیا اور قناعت پسندی کی بنا پر ایک قلیل مشاہرہ پر پوری زندگی گذار دی، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی بشری لغزشوں کو معاف فرمائے اور جنت نعیم میں جگہ دے، آمین۔ (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، جولائی ۱۹۹۳ء)
The authors approach towards the text of some narrators is neither absolute acceptance nor absolute refusal to their texts regardless of whether they are authentic or unauthentic. Hence, it should be noted that even the authentic narrator’s text can be rejected on the basis of the context in which the text is narrated. Likewise, the unauthentic narrator’s text should not be rejected in context where the narrator is assumed to be authentic. The narrator might have been of weak memorisation, but his text may be accepted because of his long companionship to that particular Sheikh whereby he acquires strength. This research is limited to the unauthentic narrators whose text about a particular Bukhari, Muslim and Nisei. The objective is to extract these unauthentic narrators out of the men of Bukhari, Muslim and Nisei depending on the judgments of the critics that are related to the documentation of the unauthentic narrator and the acceptance of his text reported about a particular Sheikh, through the reviewing of reliable references. The study also aims to the extraction of the narrations of those narrators in Bukhari, Muslim and Nisei and its study in terms of text in order to know how the classifier quotes those narrators.
In this dissertation we propose to undertake a comparative analysis of the cosmological doctrines of Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> in order to show that in spite of belonging to different religious, historical and geographical contexts, their views show remarkable similarities on the concept of God, nature and man and their correlation. Their conceptions of totality and its division are similar, while Ibn ‘Arabi>’s picture is more comprehensive in view of his accommodating absolute not-being. Both connect ontology with intelligibility and present perspectival ontologies. Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> alike extend the term “God” to include “theophanies.” They are agreed on Divine unknowability, self-creation and they both synthesize negative and affirmative theologies. However, in view of their different conceptions of “knowledge” they disagree on the possibility of Divine Self-knowledge. Eriugena''s “primordial causes” which mediate God and creation, are shown to be functionally similar to Ibn ‘Arabi>’s “fixed entities” and the ontological status of both is similar. However, the former are contained within the Logos while the latter are not contained within the Perfect Man. We argue that the way Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> relate the world to God is similar by showing resonance between Eriugena’s notion of “participation” and the doctrine of “Divine roots” we reconstruct from scattered passages of Ibn ‘Arabi>’s magnum opus . We also show that Eriugena’s understanding of “theophany” is completely in line with Ibn ‘Arabi>’s view of the nature of al-tajalli> . Our exposition of the Divine roots theory also includes a discussion of Ibn ‘Arabi>’s views on the relationship between God and ten categories which he, unlike, Eriugena, connects ontologically to the Divine nature. Finally, we show how, on the one hand, Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> alike relate man to Godix via the notion of imago dei , on the other, they relate man to the created nature by viewing nature to be contained by man. It is shown that Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> agree not only on broader outlines but in certain important details as well, for instance, the way they understand the meaning of human deiformity is same. On the methodological side, the most prominent feature that is shared by these two philosophers is their keenness to relate philosophical doctrines and notions to their respective Scriptures. We observe, however, that whereas Eriugena’s interpretation of the Bible seems in most of the cases to be allegorical and arbitrary, when Ibn ‘Arabi> interprets the Qur’a>n he is extremely careful regarding its letter and offers his creative interpretation more often than not within the interpretational space allowed by the text itself. Another methodological insight that is common to both is that instead of aligning themselves with extreme positions on most of the important questions, they usually prefer midway house standpoints which enable us to see the pros and cons of all options. We conclude by making a case for the importance and practical relevance of the results of our comparative analysis. We argue that by considering the world to be a theophany and contained within man who is created upon Divine image Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi> give us the conceptual keys to reconstruct a worldview that is based on perfect harmony between God, man and created nature and it is this view that is really needed to come to terms with the environmental crisis our world is facing. Moreover, their tendency to take middle positions and indeed the way they situate the world between absolute goodness and absolute evil offers us a cosmology of tolerance. This cosmology requires that instead of having recourse to “either/or” logic of the sword we see everything as consisting of elements of goodness and imperfection.