ڈاکٹر سید فرید احمد برکاتی
ڈاکٹر سید فرید احمد برکاتی نے یکم جولائی ۲۰۰۷ء کو داعی اجل کو لبیک کہا، انا ﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔
ڈاکٹر صاحب کے جد امجد مولانا حکیم برکات احمد صاحب اپنے زمانے کے مشہور فاضل، یگانہ استاد اور علوم عقلیہ و حکمیہ میں سرآمد روزگار تھے، یہ بہار سے آکر ریاست ٹونک میں آباد ہوگئے تھے، ٹونک کے والی نے بڑی قدردانی کی اور اپنا خصوصی معالج مقرر کیا، علوم عقلیہ کی طرح طبابت بھی اس خانوادے کا امتیاز تھا، اس میں کئی نامور طبیب گزرے ہیں، ڈاکٹر فرید احمد کے والد بزرگوار شفاء الملک مولانا سید ظہیر احمد برکاتی بھی ایک حاذق طبیب اور ریاست کے نواب صاحب کے معالج خاص تھے۔
یادش بخیر حکیم محمد سعید بانی ہمدرد دواخانہ کراچی کے دست راست اور راقم کے مخلص کرم فرما جناب مسعود احمد برکاتی صاحب اسی خانوادے کے گوہر ناب ہیں، ڈاکٹر فرید احمد اپنی خاندانی ذہانت، علم و فضل، شرافت، ملنساری اور سخاوت کے حامل تھے، آٹھ برس کی عمر میں قرآن مجید حفظ کیا، دارالعلوم خلیلیہ نظامیہ ٹونک سے ابتدائی اور دینی تعلیم حاصل کی، علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی سے عربی میں ایم اے کیا اور اول پوزیشن حاصل کی، پھر راجستھان یونیورسٹی سے اردو میں ایم اے اور پی ایچ ڈی کیا اور یہیں تدریسی خدمات انجام دے کر ۲۰۰۲ء میں سبک دوش ہوئے۔
ان کا تحقیقی مقالہ ’’فرہنگ کلیات میر‘‘ ۱۹۸۸ء میں شائع ہوا تھا، اسی زمانے میں پورے ملک میں مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد صدی تقریبات منائی جارہی تھیں، راجستھان یونیورسٹی کے شعبہ اردو فارسی میں بھی مولانا پر سمینار ہوا تھا، اس میں شرکت کے لیے گیا تو ڈاکٹر فرید صاحب سے ملاقات ہوئی اور انہوں نے اپنی کتاب معارف میں تبصرے کے لیے عنایت کی، اس سے ان کی محنت اور لغت میں مہارت...
Despite being the torch bearers of the glorious tradition of Islamic learning and ethical training, the madāris have been the target of Western on slaught in modern times. As immense importance was given to the acquisition of knowledge in Islam, the early centers of Islamic knowledge were imparting education according to the letter and spirit of it, but with the passage of time that tradition could not be upheld. Though Qarawiyīn, Al-Azahar, Niẓāmiyah are a few classical madāris where religious and secular teachings were incorporated into one, the latter madāris separated the religious from the secular (worldly) education. Formation of colonial states made the condition worse. During the Afghan war, the madāris flourished in Pakistan but after 9/11 they were deemed responsible for the attack. The paper aims at producing a discourse on this transition of madrassa education from tradition to modernity and intends to suggest recommendations for the upgradation and revival of the educational system of madāris.
Global climate change has started affecting virtually all forms of life. It is now a well acceptable truth all over the world. Pakistan being an agrarian economy depends largely on the prosperity of agriculture and livestock sector. A good chunk of GDP is springing from this sector. Livestock contributes about 11.11 percent in the GDP of Pakistan. This sector is either explicitly or implicitly affected by the changing tendencies of the climatic variables i.e. temperature, rainfall and relative humidity. This study was conducted with the aim at observing the impact of climate change on the dairy production in Pakistan during 2001-02 and 2015-2016. Research followed quantitative as well as qualitative analytical tools. Ricardian analysis is operated to quantify the likely impact on dairy production. Data is of secondary nature and collected from Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES), Federal Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan. On the other hand, climatic variable data is collected from Pakistan Meteorology Department. The quantitative phase is followed by a qualitative phase by conducting Key Informant Interviews (KII‘s) of key stakeholders. Ricardian analysis shows that warming is going to impact dairy animals in Pakistan creating heat stress on animal thus lowering feed intake, imbalance in feed intake and health issues. The situation is worse in 2015-16 as compare to 2001-02. However, interesting findings are obtained for maximum and minimum temperature values of temperature where minimum temperature value is playing a compensating role to compensate the losses from maximum temperature. This is an important finding and needs to explore more. On the other hand rainfall has shown positive impact on livestock; however the positive impacts are so small that they will be offset by increase in temperature. As far as provinces are concerned, the situation has worsened between 2001-02 and 2015-16. Being the home of over 70 percent livestock and food basket of Pakistan, Punjab needs special attention to address the dairy issue. Experts have suggested few adaptation options and mitigation is somewhat not applicable in case of dairy due to more than 80 percent of small farmers involved in dairy farming. Government needs to device and suggest practical and innovative business model to dairy farmer to cope with climate change. Feed security policy is dire need of time. Reviving pure breeds and stop random crossing of dairy animals are also recommended. Like agro-climatic zones, dairy-climatic zoning is also needed so that effective policy can be devised.