سر شیخ عبدالقادر
افسوس ہے کہ ہماری پرانی علمی و ادبی بزم کی ایک اور شمع گل ہوگئی اور گزشتہ ۹؍ فروری کو سر شیخ عبدالقادر مرحوم نے چھیتر سال کی عمر میں انتقال کیا، مرحوم کی ذات گوناگوں اوصاف کی جامع تھی، وہ اردو زبان کے مشہور ادیب اور اس کے پرانے محسن اور خدمت گزار تھے، ان کا مشہور رسالہ مخزن اپنے زمانہ کا اردو کا سب سے زیادہ ممتاز اور مقبول رسالہ تھا، اردو میں سنجیدہ نگاری اور اچھے اصحاب قلم پیدا کرنے میں اس کا بڑا حصہ تھا، مرحوم کا ادبی ذوق ہر زمانہ میں قائم رہا اور وہ کسی نہ کسی حیثیت سے برابر اردو کی خدمت کرتے رہے، مخزن کے جدید دور میں بھی وہ اس کے سر پرست تھے، پاکستان کے قیام سے پہلے تک وہ دارالمصنفین کے رکن تھے، ان علمی و ادبی کمالات کے ساتھ ان کو بڑے سے بڑے دنیاوی اعزاز بھی حاصل ہوئے اور وہ مختلف اوقات میں ہائی کورٹ کی ججی، وزارت تعلیم مرکزی پبلک سروس کمیشن کی رکنیت انڈیا کونسل کی ممبری وغیرہ جیسے مناسب جلیلہ پر فائز رہے، لیکن ان کی وضعداری میں کبھی فرق نہیں آیا، وہ نئی تعلیم کے ساتھ پرانی تہذیب و شرافت کا نمونہ اور ہر طبقہ و ہر فرقہ میں مقبول اور سب کے ساتھ ان کے یکساں تعلقات تھے، اب ایسی شخصیتیں مشکل ہی سے پیدا ہونگی، ایسی یادگاریں خواہ ہندوستان کی ہوں یا پاکستان کی کم از کم ایک دو نسلوں تک دونوں کی مشترک مِلک ہیں اور ان کی موت دونوں کا نقصان ہے، اﷲ تعالیٰ مرحوم کو اپنی رحمت و مغفرت سے سرفراز فرمائے۔ (شاہ معین الدین ندوی، مارچ ۱۹۵۰ء)
سر شیخ عبدالقادر
ہندوستان و پاکستان کی تقسیم نے اب ایسا کردیا ہے کہ ایک جگہ کا حال دوسری جگہ مشکل سے معلوم ہوتا...
Human is the combination of body and spirit, Islām pays attention to the balanced growth and construction of the human personality considering the health of both body and spirit. As Muslims, we believe that Islām is the perfect code of life, which provides guidance for the solutions of all individual and collective problems of human beings. Therefore, we believe that Islām has a complete system of instructions for the development and reformation of spirit on the one hand, and, on the other hand, it has prescribed guidelines for the upkeeping and maintenance of the body. Reproductive and sexual health is one of the major problems of human beings. Eastern societies are comparatively shy to discuss this problem, unless necessary, while the western societies have introduced sex education in their schools to teenagers. We being Muslims tend to look towards our religion to guide us in such a way, that it may educate us, on the one hand, and on the other, it may guide us to adopt the required attitude to avoid the negativity of its awareness. Although the issue of reproductive health is considered as the specialty of the modern age, however, Islamic instructions very obviously discuss them from the beginning. In this article, the author has explored and elaborated Islamic teachings regarding the reproductive health and sexual instructions and discussed them in order to prove that Islām has the full capacity to solve the current social problems of reproductive health and sexual health.
Introduction: Molecular characterisation of the breast cancer has allowed for targeted therapies that are improving outcomes. The gains achieved by these treatments have fuelled the search for other targets, including cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors such as p21. p21 expression in breast cancer has been shown to be variably associated with clinical and pathological parameters in different populations. It is possible that either methodological or biological differences underlie these variations.
Objective: The current study sought to determine the association of p21 expression and clinico-pathological parameters in breast cancer patients at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
Methods: Clinically annotated tissue samples were obtained in a consecutive fashion. Specimen were immunohistochemically stained for p21 expression with clinicopathological data extracted for corresponding cases. p21 expression was assessed against age, parity, menopausal status, body mass index, hormonal receptor status, tumour size and grade. Distribution of mean p21 score was assessed for normality and data were analysed using Kruskall-Wallis test, chi-square and Fisher's exact test at an alpha level of 0.05. They were presented in form of tables, charts and photomicrographs.
Results: Ninety-eight cases were included in the study. Mean age was 47.55 years with mean parity 2.96 live births. A slight majority of patients were pre-menopausal (56.3% versus 42.5%). Average body-mass index was 29.69 kilograms per square metre. Majority of patients had invasive ductal carcinoma (87.6%) that was moderate-to-high grade (92.7%), 2 centimetres or larger (95%), with lymphovascular invasion (70.4%), and vi hormone-receptor positive. Mean expression of p21 at 1:100 dilution was approximately 20% was statistically significant with tumour size.
Conclusion: The findings of the current study demonstrate a possible association of p21 expression with tumour size. The demonstration of a trend towards p21 loss with increasing body mass index may benefit from exploration with a larger dataset.