ایم اسلم
برعظیم پاک وہند کے مشہور ناول نگار اورافسانہ نویس میاں ایم اسلم مورخہ ۲۳/ نومبر ۱۹۸۳ء کو۹۸ سال کی عمر میں لاہور میں انتقال کرگئے۔پاکستان ٹیلی ویژن کے ایک پروگرام میں ان کے دیرینہ ساتھی اور ان کی تصانیف کے ناشر خواجہ بدرالاسلام فروغی نے مرحوم کے والد میاں نظام الدین کے ایک رجسٹر کے حوالے سے ان کی تاریخ ولادت۶/اگست ۱۸۸۵ء بتائی ہے۔
میاں ایم اسلم لاہور کے ایک رئیس گھرانے کے فرد تھے۔ان کے والد میاں نظام الدین لاہور کی کشمیری برداری کے سربراہ اوروسیع جائدادکے مالک تھے۔میاں ایم اسلم نے زراعتی کالج لائل پور(حال زرعی یونیورسٹی فیصل آباد) میں تعلیم حاصل کی اورمحکمہ انہار میں ضلع دار کی حیثیت سے ملازمت کاآغاز کیا۔یہ ملازمت انھیں راس نہ آئی اس لیے استعفی دے کر لکھنے پڑھنے میں مشغول ہوگئے۔میاں صاحب اپنے والد کے اکلوتے فرزند تھے اس لیے گھر میں روپے پیسے کی کمی نہ تھی۔
انھوں نے اپنی زندگی میں ڈھائی صد کے لگ بھگ ناول اور سیکڑوں افسانے لکھے۔مرحوم اپنے احباب سے کہا کرتے تھے کہ انھوں نے ایک لاکھ سے زائد صفحات لکھے ہیں۔
برعظیم پاک وہند کے تمام اہل علم کے ساتھ ان کے دوستانہ مراسم تھے۔ جس کے ساتھ ایک بارتعلق پیداہوگیا اسے مرحوم نے تازیست نبھایا۔ایک افسانہ نگار اور ناول نویس ہونے کے باوجود ان کی زندگی بڑی پاکیزہ تھی۔ہفتہ وارچھٹی کے دن ان کے احباب علی الصبح ان کے ہاں پہنچ جاتے اور اکھٹے بیٹھ کر ناشتہ کرتے۔احباب کی یہ محفل دوپہر تک جاری رہتی۔راقم الحروف بھی اس محفل کاایک باقاعدہ رکن تھا۔
میاں ایم اسلم لاہور کی ایک پرانی تہذیب اورروایات کے صحیح نمائندے تھے۔انھوں نے اپنے ناولوں میں اسلامی تہذیب کے خدوخال نمایاں کرنے کی بھرپور کوشش کی ہے۔عبدالماجد دریابادی فرماتے تھے کہ ایم اسلم نے ناول کو عبادت بنادیاہے۔
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The emergence of human milk banks for premature and underweight babies in the early twentieth century raised many questions about the proscription of breastfeeding kinship as are in Islamic jurisprudence. Many Islamic scholars tries to find its solution in the light of Quran, Sunnah and the sayings of early Imams of Fiqh, but their opinion about this matter was different like the differences of sayings of some Imams, until Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences based in Kuwait and Islamic fiqh Academy Jeddah, called Summits on this issue and decided against the establishment of such banks in Islamic world. The issue seemed to be almost solved until European Council for Fatwa and Research launched an appeal in 2003 against their solution and demanded to legitimate the use of Human Milk from these banks for the children of Muslim families in Europe and USA using the public scourge canon (Umum al Balwa) of fiqh. This appeal once again opened the door of discussion on this matter. This article is an overview of the sayings of early and modern jurisprudents and pros and cons of human milk banks in the quest of solution of this modern problem in the light of Islamic shariah, so that a just and balanced opinion may be adopted in this matter as it is motto of Islamic Law. This discussion will also affect many new problems faced by Muslim communities in European countries as well as Islamic countries in modern era
Dengue virus (DENV) infection is a mosquito born infectious disease. Its diagnostic is utmost important for treatment, as the symptoms of disease are quite similar to other diseases. Current pathological diagnostics methods available are reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RT-PCR is used to detect the virus itself while ELISA is used to detect non-structural protein-1 (NS1) and antibodies like immunoglobulin-M (IgM) and immunoglobulin-G (IgG). Existing methods e.g. virus isolation, RT-PCR and ELISA have certain disadvantages like more time consuming, false-positive/false-negative results and expensive as compared to Raman spectroscopy. Raman spectroscopic technique provides molecular signatures, minimum running cost and online results. Raman spectra of biological samples combined with a suitable statistical data-mining technique like partial least squares (PLS) regression can be used to devise a new method for diagnosis of DENV infection in human blood sera. In present studies, this technique is successfully applied for the diagnostic of DENV infection based on three steps. A graphical user interface (GUI) was specially designed and its code was developed in MATLAB (Mathworks 2009a) programming language to implement PLS for the presented research work. First step: Raman spectra of ELISA confirmed NS1 positive and negative sera samples are discriminated by PLS regression. Analysis of regression coefficients, which differentiate these groups, shows an increasing trend for phosphatidylinositol, ceramide and amide-III, and a decreasing trend for thiocyanate in the DENV infected serum. Second step: Raman spectra of samples, with known value of ELISA based AI of IgM are discriminated by PLS regression. Analysis of regression coefficients revealed that concentration of asparagine, glutamate, galactosamine etc. were found to increase while concentration of fructose, cholesterol, cellobiose, and arabinose were found to decrease with increasing values of antibody index (AI) of IgM. Third step: Raman spectra of samples, with known value of ELISA based AI of IgG are discriminated by PLS regression. Analysis of regression coefficients revealed that myristic acid, coenzyme-A, alanine etc. were found to increase, while amide III, collagen, proteins, fatty acids, phospholipids and fucose were found to decrease with increasing values of AI of IgG. Raman spectroscopy provides not only the diagnosis of DENV infection, but it also enables the detailed insight of the abnormalities appearing in molecular composition of a sample. Importantly, Raman spectra @ 532 nm excitation were used to investigate the possible use of lactate as biomarker for DENV infection. It was found that spectral difference in healthy and infected samples is due to an elevated level of lactate in DENV infected group.