’’ارضِ اقبال آ فاقیت کے آ ئینے میں‘‘ڈاکٹر نصیر احمد اسد کے تحقیقی وتنقیدی مضامین کا اولین تخلیقی مجموعہ ہے ۔اسے ابتدائی کاوش کے نقطہء نظر ہی سے دیکھتے ہیں تو ان کی محنت و لگن اور ادبی ذوق و شوق کی داد دینی پڑتی ہے کہ انہوں نے جس تن دہی سے اس کام کو پایۂ تکمیل تک پہنچایا ہے اسے مدنظر رکھتے ہوئے یہ بات پورے وثوق سے کہی جاسکتی ہے کہ خوب سے خوب کرنے کی جستجو ان کی فطرتِ ثانیہ ہے۔
اس کام کے حوالے سے ایک بات خاص طور پر یہ محسوس ہوئی کہ ان میں سیکھنے کا رویّہ قابل رشک حد تک پایا جاتا ہے اور وہ اپنے آ پ کو بہت کچھ سمجھنے کے خبط سے پاک ہیں اوریہ صرف ادب ہی سے خاص نہیں بلکہ زندگی کا کوئی بھی شعبہ ہو ترقی کی بنیاد یہی رویہ ہے۔چنانچہ جس انداز سے وہ سفر شوق طے کر رہے ہیں امید ہے کہ ایک دن یہ نام ادبی حوالہ ہو گا۔
ان کے مقالات میں تنقیدی اور تقابلی مطالعہ اپنے تہذیبی و ثقافتی پس منظر سے اُبھرتا ہےاور وہ افراد اور رویّوں ہر دو میں اشتراکات اور اختلافات اور مستقبل کے امکانات کو اپنی روایت میں شناخت کرتے اور قدر کا تعیّن کرتے ہیں۔
ڈاکٹر سید عامر سہیل
چئیر مین شعبہ اردو ، اسلامیہ یونیورسٹی، بہاولپور
The advancement in science and technology has made the world peace and prosperity very important at this time in the human history. We find in the human history, since it was recorded, that almost all the civilizations were very intolerant, brutal to their opponents, especially, to the believers of other religions. On the other hand, the Islamic states were the most tolerant and accommodating to other religions. This fact is proved from the early history of Islām during the period of the Prophet Muḥammad (r) and his immediate successors. Similar is the case in the later history of the Muslims, during the period of the Abbasid, the Umayyids in Spain, the Turks, the Mughal era and in the Far East. Human and economic losses in wars were very huge during the first, the second world wars, and the current wars being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. The human and material losses are horrible. The author believes that the Prophet Muḥammad (r) ’s teachings and traditions of moderation, tolerance, human respect, freedom of religious practice are the only ways to peace and prosperity in the world.
Ubiquitous computing technologies automatically identify and respond to the context of user actions in new, undisruptive, user-friendly ways.An active application area of the ubiquitous computing research is the "Smart Home" technology and HCI researchers are increasingly getting interested in developing ubiquitous yet smart home environments.
Today, the ubiquitous smart home technology is at a phase just next to early adoption phase and still much far from the mass-market adoption stage.Pakistan is a boomer country when it comes to adoption of new technologies and the latest proof is spread of mobile and internet communication.In order to gain customers'' trust, researchers need to prove that the technology is ''really'' useful and that the smart homes are ''ubiquitously'' calm ''enough'' both in terms of use and maintenance.Same is the motive of this research.
This research proposes a framework which will serve as a guide to how we, in Pakistan, may attune smart home automation technology to our environment.MZALAB framework proposes a method to connect heterogeneous smart devices into a wireless sensor network in an almost plug and play style using open source resources.Same is being researched at facilities worldwide but very few take on an Asian perspective and none so far has tried it in Pakistan.MZALab houses a heterogeneous network of sensors and actuators, Wi-Fi switches, GSM modem, IP cameras and interactive user interface screens.This smart space is managed through software from within the home as well as from outside via trusted smartphone application.As a proof of concept, a "Live-In-Lab" strategy is deployed for testing whether it will work for an average home in Pakistan''s backdrop.MZALAB is a ''live-in'' studio-apartment-scale research laboratory, first of its kind in Pakistan.This lab naturalistically imitates a typical Pakistani home environment, to research about how well or otherwise we can adapt ubiquitous smart computing and networking capabilities, into a Pakistani human abode.This setup has successfully lent an insight into how well or otherwise the smart home automation technology may work in Pakistan.