ارضِ اقبال آفاقیت کے آئینے میں‘‘ڈاکٹر نصیر احمداسد کے مختلف تحقیقی و تنقیدی نوعیت کے مضامین پر مشتمل کتاب ہے۔بیشتر مضامین مختلف تحقیقی و تنقیدی رسائل کی زینت بن چکے ہیں۔ اُنھوں نے جن جن شخصیات پر قلم اٹھایا ہے،ان کے بارے میں معلومات کا ایک ذخیرہ جمع کر دیا ہے۔جہاں جہاں ضرورت محسوس کی ہے اپنی ناقدانہ رائے کا اظہار بھی بڑی خوب صورتی سے کیا ہے۔
مَیں نے ڈاکٹر نصیر احمد اسدکے مزاج میں ایک خاص بات محسوس کی ہے کہ وہ اپنے کام سے نہایت مخلص ہیں اور اپنی دُھن میں علمی خدمات میں ہمہ وقت مصروف نظر آتے ہیں۔ان کے اسلوب کی سادگی اور روانی بات کو بوجھل نہیں ہونے دیتی۔ ان مضامین کے مطالعہ سے قاری نہ صرف مختلف شخصیات سے متعارف ہوتا ہے بلکہ ان کی علمی خدمات سے بھی ایک حد تک مستفید ہوتا ہے۔
’’مولوی فیروز الدین ڈسکوی‘‘ اور’’مولوی ابراہیم میر سیالکوٹی‘‘ والے مضامین میں مذکورہ شخصیات سے متعلق عمدہ معلومات جمع کی گئی ہیں۔ان شخصیات کے تعارف کے ساتھ ساتھ ان کی علمی خدمات پر بھی روشنی ڈالی گئی ہے۔اسی طرح ’’سیالکوٹ میں اردو شاعری کا ارتقا‘‘ اور’’ریاض حسین چودھری ایک نعت گو شاعر‘‘ میں ناقدانہ انداز نظر سے کام لیا گیا ہے۔دیگر مضامین بھی اپنی نوعیت کے خوب صورت مضامین ہیں۔الغرض مذکورہ کتاب ان کی تحقیقی و تنقیدی بصیرت کی آئینہ دار ہے۔
ڈاکٹر محمد افضل صفی
صدر شعبہ اردو گورنمنٹ گریجوایٹ کالج ،کروڑ لعل عیسن، ضلع لیہ
In "Fath-ur-Rehman Fi Ithbāt-e-Madhab al-Naumān", Shaykh Abdul Haq Muhaddith Dehalvi collected Ahadith supporting the religion and sect of Imam Abu Hanifa (R.A) and described the differences of the jurists and gave preference to Hanafi School of thought. He has proved through this book that Imam’s sect is in accordance with the Sahih Ahadith and while removing the accusations leveled against Imam Abu Hanifa, he declared that these are the issues on which the contrariness of the hadith was accused but irony of the situation is that Abu Hanifa (R.A) is following the hadith while other jurists explicitly base their intellect and conjecture and the style of the book shows that Abu Hanifa (R.A) is the absolute doer of hadith and Imam Shafi (R.A) uses conjecture and opinion. Moreover, Author speaks on the authenticity of the hadiths which not only support him but also give comfort and consolation to the opposing party. This great book of Hazrat Shaykh Muhaddith (R.A) is unique and unique in its importance, infrequency, style of reasoning, research issues, preference of religion, and hadiths supporting Hazrat Imam Azam Abu Hanifa (R.A) which opens new chapters of coming research. In the said article, an analytical study of his book "Fath-ur-Rehman fi Asbat-e-Madhhab-e-Noman" will be presented which will expose the reality of Imam Abu Hanifa's accusation of being against the hadith and this great effort of Sheikh Abdul Haq will also be brought to light.
The grasses have acquired a sufficient scientific attention and belong to largest plant family (Poaceae). The world’s dry land is enclosed about one-third by the Poaceae members and a great number of people rely profoundly on cereal grasses. Moreover this is predominantly true for the grasses that they are the part of exclusive animal feed as well. Fertile plain of Central Punjab Pakistan is rich with fodder grasses and from centuries the local inhabitants of this area have been using their regional grasses for ruminant feeding. However little or no information was available about the nutritional potential of these ethnobotanically used grasses. Moreover grasses always faced difficulties in identification because of their more or less identical leaf shapes, indefinite variations in stem branching pattern and reduced floral parts. Hence this study took an initiative to establish a nutritive data bank of these ethnobotanically used fodder grasses along with provision of taxonomically viable tools for their identification.Data regarding ethnobotanically used grass fodder species was collected by using snowball technique to identify key informants, whereas semistructured questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and site visits were used for describing the fodder grasses. For taxonomic evaluation classical taxonomic parameters (morphological, anatomical and palynological) were employed. In order to develop a nutritional profile proximate analysis (moisture, dry matter, ash, organic matter, crude proteins, fats, neutral and acid detergent fibre, lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose) and anti-nutritional analysis (total phenols, total tannins, condensed tannins) in combination to mineral and digestibility analysis were determined. Besides their nutritional evaluation, the legitimacy of ethnobotanical knowledge of local inhabitants of Central Punjab Pakistan about these fodder grasses was also verified. Data analysis was done by using SPSS 22 software. This software was used for descriptive statistics and interpretation of associations among studied parameters. Microsoft Excel was used to present data as % values and graphs. Overall results reported 53 fodder grasses which were grouped into high (A), medium (B) and low priority (C) groups. Group A grasses were reported as not only the most abundant but also the most palatable forages to all types of ruminants. Taxonomic data provided some valuable identification tools whereas nutritional results suggested that majority (77%) of these fodder grasses can be regarded as good quality fodders because of their high protein (up to 169g/kg) and digestible nutrients with low fibre (≤ 601.65g/kg), lignin (≤ 50.24 g/kg) and anti-nutrients (total phenols ≤ 87.32 g/kg, total tannins ≤ 77.81 g/kg, condensed tannins ≤ 61.23 g/kg). A positive relationship was identified between ethnobotanical knowledge and nutritional results for certain fodder grasses. Spearman correlation showed that ranking of species based on ethnobotanical preferences was highly correlated with the laboratory results of individual grass species with ‘r’ values for CP (0.85), NDF (-0.76), ADF (-0.72) and ADL (-0.62). The resilient complementarities between ethnobotanical preferences and nutritive analysis suggested the incorporation of these ethnobotanically used fodders into modern ruminant feeding system. These findings are significant for appropriate fodder selection and development of supplements for the sustainable and economically viable livestock industry.