انور نعمانی مرحوم
علامہ شبلیؒ نعمانی نے اپنے بھائی مولوی محمد اسحاق مرحوم وکیل الہ آباد ہائی کورٹ کی موت پر اپنے ایک پر درد نوحہ میں یہ فرمایا تھا۔
مرنے والے کو نجات ابدی کی ہو نوید
خوش و خرم رہے چھوٹایہ مرا بھائی جنید
ان ہی جناب جنید نعمانی کے مرحوم کے اکلوتے بیٹے انور نعمانی مرحوم تھے، جنھوں نے لگ بھگ اسّی۸۰ سال کی عمر میں کراچی میں مئی ۱۹۸۶ء کے آخری ہفتہ میں وفات پائی، مرحوم اپنے والد بزرگوار کے سایۂ عا طفت میں بڑے لاڈ پیار اور ناز ونعمت سے پلے، تعلیم مسلم یو نیو رسٹی علی گڑھ میں پائی، گھر میں دولت تھی، اس لئے ان کو نوکری کرنے کی ضرورت نہیں پڑی، کچھ دنوں مرزا پور میں فارم کیا، چھوٹی موٹی تجارت بھی کی، پھر حضرت مولانا اشرف علی تھانویؒ کے خلیفہ مولانا عبدالغنی پھولپوری کے ایسے گرویدہ اور فریضتہ ہوئے کہ وہ نقل وطن کرکے کراچی چلے گئے تو یہ بھی اپنا گھربار سب کچھ چھوڑ کر ان ہی کے ساتھ وہاں رہنے لگے، جب تک اعظم گڑھ میں رہے دارالمصنفین والوں کے یار وفادار اور غم گسار بن کر ان کے لئے اپنی محبت کا دم بھرنا زندگی کا شعار بنائے رکھا۔ کراچی میں ان کے اکلوتے لڑکے سرکاری نوکر ہیں، اچھے حال میں ہیں ،پھر ان کے اور قریبی اعزہ بھی وہاں بہت خوش حال ہیں، مگر انھوں نے کسی کے یہاں رہنا پسند نہیں کیا، اپنے مرشد کی ایک پسند یدہ مسجد سے ملحق ایک کٹیا ان ہی کے نام پر ایک عبادت گاہ کے گوشے میں رہ کر اپنی بقیہ زندگی گذاردی، کراچی جب جب گیا، ان سے جاکر ضرور ملا، اور ان کی پرانی زندگی کی یادوں کی قندیل روشن کی، کسی زمانے میں صاحب کی طرح زندگی بسر کرنے والے کو ان...
Spirituality is usually understood as a way of being that flows from a certain profound experience of reality, which is known as ‘mystical’, ‘religious’, or ‘spiritual’ experience. There are numerous descriptions of this experience in the literature of the world’s religions, which tend to agree that it is a direct, non-intellectual experience of reality with some fundamental characteristics that are independent of cultural and historical contexts. Spiritual and scientific quests are two complementary inquiries into reality. Any feeling of antagonism between them is a product of a narrow vision. Science deals with what is measurable; religion is the quest for discovering and understanding the immeasurable. A scientist is not intelligent if he denies the existence of the immeasurable. There is nothing that is anti-science but there is a lot that is beyond science. The two quests have to go hand in hand. We not only need to have an understanding of the laws that govern the phenomena occurring in the external world around us but also we need to discover order and harmony in our consciousness. Human understanding is incomplete unless it covers both aspects of reality: matter as well as consciousness. Indeed the division between the scientific and spiritual quests is itself the creation of the human mind. Reality is one undivided whole which includes both matter and consciousness. Our thoughts, being limited by our experience, divide the external world from the inner world of our consciousness, in much the same way as our mind divides time from space though they are both two aspects of a single continuum۔
Design and development of power-aware, scalable and performance efficient routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an active area of research. In this dissertation, we show that insect colonies based intelligence – commonly referred to as Swarm Intelligence (SI) – provides an ideal metaphor for developing routing protocols for WSNs because they consist of minimalists, autonomous individuals that through local interactions self-organize to produce system-level behaviors that show life long adaptability to changes and perturbations in an external environment. In this context, we propose a new routing protocol for WSNs – BeeSensor – inspired by the foraging principles of honey bees. We follow a three phase novel protocol engineering cycle. In the first phase, we study the foraging principles of a bee colony and utilize the inspirational concepts to develop a distributed, simple and energy-efficient routing protocol for WSNs. We then evaluate and compare the performance of this protocol with existing classical and SI-based WSN protocols. The simulation results demonstrate that BeeSensor consistently outperforms the existing well-known protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio and energy efficiency. However, its performance degrades slightly as the network size is increased. To gain more insights into the parameters governing the behavior of BeeSensor in large-scale networks, in the second phase, we develop a generic mathematical evaluation framework to model two key performance metric of an ad hoc routing protocol: routing overhead and route optimality. We then develop specific routing overhead and route optimality models of the BeeSensor protocol. The metric models unfold several interesting insights about the performance of BeeSensor in large-scale networks. For instance, with an increase in the average hop length, route discovery probability of BeeSensor decays exponentially. We also model the reliability of packet delivery of the BeeSensor protocol. The model shows that the reliability of packet delivery is a concave function of the total number of paths. Therefore,maintenance of a set of paths beyond a certain threshold limit does not result in a proportional increase in the packet delivery ratio. Based on the insights inferred through the formal modeling, we revise the design of BeeSensor protocol in the third phase. To conclude this dissertation, we per- form simulation studies – using prowler simulator – to analyze and compare the performance of the final BeeSensor design with existing protocols. In the first set of experiments, we compare its performance with SI-based energy-efficient WSN protocols. The simulation results demonstrate that BeeSensor outperforms its com- petitors in all assumed scenarios and metrics. We then implement the BeeSensor protocol in NS-2 simulator to further investigate its performance in mobile networks and large-scale static sensor networks. The results clearly show that BeeSensor not only performs well in large-scale networks, but is equally good in MANETs as well. Therefore, BeeSensor is a viable protocol for hybrid ad hoc networks.