مزاجِ وقت دیکھو وقت کی رفتار تو دیکھو
لکھا ہے کیا سرِ دیوار تم دیوار تو دیکھو
مقدر میں یہی لکھا تھا یہ بھی ٹھیک ہے لیکن
سبب کچھ اور بھی ہو گا تم اپنی ہار تو دیکھو
اے حاکم تجھ پہ لازم ہے نگہ بانی رعایا کی
کہ اس کی مفلسی اور اس کا حالِ زار تو دیکھو
نہیں تیار خلقت کیوں تمھاری بات سننے کو
خدا کے واسطے اس خلق کا انکار تو دیکھو
اگر وہ باوفا ہوتا ، کبھی ایسا نہیں کرتا
صفِ دشمن میں جا بیٹھا ہے میرا یار تو دیکھو
خدا کا شکر کرتا ہے ادا دردِ محبت پر
ہُوا ہے محوِ سجدہ عشق کا بیمار تو دیکھو
تمھارا نام جپتا ہے فقط تائبؔ تمھارا ہے
تم اس کی چاہ تو دیکھو، تم اس کا پیار تو دیکھو
Islam is such a unique religion that commoner’s social welfare with its subdomains and conquered subjugated principalities. History of Islam is teemed with its practical instances of social welfare with subjugated states. Conquered nations are dealt with and interacted with i n a way, that their right might not be violated, instead governing power took such steps that helped them to become acquaintances of the conqueror that is why every Islamic government forbade Muslims to usurp the social rights of any minority the subsequent passage historical and analytical study of sociological dealing of Muslim state with non muslim nations is discussed.
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