مولوی عبدالحمید ندوی
یہ سطور ابھی پریس نہیں گئی تھیں کہ مولوی عبدالحمید ندوی کے انتقال کی خبر ملی، وہ بارہ بنکی کے ایک گاؤں جیسکھ پور کے رہنے والے تھے، بڑے مخلص، حق پسند اور بہی خواہ خلق تھے، ۱۹۱۹ء میں ندوہ میں داخل ہوئے، تحریک خلافت شباب پر تھی، حمید صاحب بھی اس سے متاثر ہوئے، اس کی وجہ سے سادگی طبیعت ثانیہ بن گئی، مولانا عبدالرحمن نگرامی کی صحبت نے ان کے اندر ندوہ کی محبت اور خاموش خدمت کا جذبہ پیدا کیا، تعلیم سے فراغت کے بعد قیام زیادہ تر وطن ہی میں رہا، لیکن ندوہ برابر آتے جاتے رہتے تھے، دوستوں کے اصرار کئی برس تک بھٹکل میں تعلیمی خدمت انجام دی، ان کے مخلص شاگردوں نے اس کام کو آگے بڑھایا اور ایک بڑا تعلیمی مرکز قائم ہوگیا، عرصہ سے دل کے مریض تھے، رمضان میں ندوہ آئے، مولانا ابوالحسن علی سے ملنے رائے بریلی جانے کا ارادہ تھا، دفعتہ دل کا دورہ پڑا اور تھوڑی دیر میں جان جان آفریں کے سپرد کردی، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی مغفرت فرمائے اور ان کے صاحبزادہ مولوی عبدالرشید ندوی اور دوسرے متعلقین کو صبر جمیل عطا فرمائے۔ (عبد السلام قدوائی، ستمبر ۱۹۷۸ء)
The leadership of nations is a role designated for prophets and messengers of Almighty Allah, they executed this duty with utmost excellence. Their distinctive leadership and skills were guided by divine revelation, complemented by inherent natural abilities crucial for guiding people. Following the era of prophets and messengers, scholars, reformers, and noble rulers who succeeded them drew from this pure source. They derived principles of governance and successful leadership methodologies from the divine revelations, administering their people adeptly and fostering the consolidation of Islam in their lands. However, in later eras, these foundational elements waned. Many leaders disregarded the noble Islamic values they inherited. Consequently, weaknesses seeped in, and successful, impactful leadership shifted to other groups.
I have compiled the principles of leadership advocated by the prophets and messengers, particularly the final messenger, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ,I gave some examples of the leaders among this Ummah, It showcase exemplary leaders from our glorious history and provide guidance on returning to that greatness by reverting to the landmarks of leadership illustrated by the Prophet ﷺ, It's in this return that the restoration of our former glory can be realized.
This research study aims at exploring narratives of experiences and practices of teachers of English in order to understand how these life stories shape and transform teachers’ personal and professional identities in the process of becoming teachers in the multilingual context of Karachi, Pakistan. Researching teachers’ personal and professional identity constructs is very crucial and significant in order to understand them as individuals and to see how they make sense of their experiences throughout their personal and professional lives and careers, which in turn guide their English language teaching and learning practices in their respective contexts. In order to understand the complex phenomenon of teachers’ identity construction, this study is conceptualized within a narrative framework, exploring teachers’ stories that develop over the passage of time, within their knowledge landscapes and contextual realities, shaping their storied identities of personal and professional selves. To facilitate this in-depth exploration, the study undertook narrative inquiry as its research design. It explored identity construction of two teachers of English; Faiza and Danish from private and public school systems in Karachi, with a gender balance perspective. The field data was collected in nine-month period using a variety of narrative inquiry tools (i.e. observations, storytelling, in-depth interviews, field notes and document analysis) and art-based research tools (i.e. autobiographical storylines, drawings, metaphors and pictures) in order to assist the exploration of teachers’ stories in a creative narrative form that further helped to situate the study within the ‘three dimensional inquiry space’ (Clandinin & Connelly, 2006). The research participants used autobiographical story-lines and metaphors to describe their identity construction. Faiza storied herself while running on her life’s race track and Danish un-revealed his multi-layered onion layered-self, describing his multiple roles wearing different hats. Through these storylines and metaphors, they presented their multiple identities that have developed with the passage of time, experience and situation, and shaped and evolved their personality into who they were, are and aspire to be. From the narratives of the two teachers, it was seen that the complexity of their identity construction lies in their creative portrayals of the way they perceive and represent themselves as persons and as professional teachers of English. This element of teachers’ creativity has facilitated in exploring the multifaceted phenomenon of teachers’ identities under study. Also, the metaphor of ‘creativeness’ has added value in characterizing and understanding the complexity of teachers’ identity construction in the existing literature. The study highlights