حافظ ضیاء الدین احمد
افسوس ہے پچھلے مہینہ حافظ ضیاء الدین احمد صاحب ایڈیٹر ندائے حرم کرانچی کاانتقال ہوگیا۔ مرحوم مدرسہ صولتیہ مکہ معظمہ کے صدر دفتر کے انچارج تھے۔ قرول باغ دہلی میں ان کا دفتر دفترِبرہان کے پڑوس میں تھا۔۱۹۴۷ء کے ہنگاموں میں ہم سے قرول باغ چھٹا تومرحوم اس ملک کو ہی خیرباد کہہ کر کراچی میں جابیٹھے۔ وہ اگرچہ ضابطہ کے عالم نہیں تھے لیکن بڑی اچھی سمجھ بوجھ اوراعلیٰ درجہ کی انتظامی قابلیت رکھتے تھے۔مہمان نوازی، تواضع اورفراغ حوصلگی و سیرچشمی ان کی طبیعت تھی۔ قرآن مجید کے صرف حافظ ہی نہیں تھے بلکہ اس کے عاشق بھی تھے۔ روزانہ خودپابندی کے ساتھ اس کاورد کرتے تھے اوراپنی اولاد کو بھی تلاوت قرآن کی تاکید کرتے رہتے تھے۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ آں مرحوم کوابراروصلحاء کامقام عطافرمائے اورمدرسہ صولتیہ کی اس شاخ کومرحوم جیسے منتظم کے اٹھ جانے کے باعث کسی قسم کاچشم زخم پہنچنے سے محفوظ رکھے۔آمین [مئی۱۹۵۲ء]
The status, empowerment and dignity of woman in Islam is the crucial topic in the modern times. According to Islamic point of view, men and women have been created from a one soul. The main difference between them lies in the physical structure. A woman has to bring up, train and look after kids, which is the complicated task to civilize a nation. The issue of woman`s activities in Islam, is misunderstood and distorted due to misreporting of western media and misbehavior of some Muslim families. There is a large number of women scholars in Islamic history, Dr. Akram Nadwi has compiled the biographies of ten thousand female scholars in his commendable book of forty volumes. In educational system of Islam, a woman is completely free to perform educational activities for development of her nation. In social system of Islam, a woman is honored as mother, as daughter, as sister and as wife. The first converter to Islam was a woman, “Hazrat Khadijah (R.A)”. Hazrat Ayesha (R.A) was great scholar who reported many traditions from Holy Prophet( SAW). Many female Companions of Holy prophet( SAW) have performed great deeds even in the field of battlefield. There is a strong basis in Islamic history for women`s participation in positiveand constructive activities in every walk of life. Muslim women are allowed to perform research, educational, national, religious, social, and financial and other constructive activities. In this research paper, Islamic overview has been described upon positive and constructive activities of women in the light of Islamic teachings.
Economic growth models have been extended to recognize the importance of health and to include it as a human capital input. Keeping in the view the importance of health in economic development, this study aims to calculate the socio economic determinants of knowledge and attitude towards hepatitis B and C which are the main sources of dismalness, mortality and genuine general wellbeing issue in Pakistan and are affecting approximately two billion people worldwide. So, this study also aims to calculate the willingness to pay (WTP) for vaccination and economic burden of this disease so policy suggestion can be given to competent authorities for decreasing the burden. Data from 600 respondents were collected for the study. Tobit model is used to calculate the determinants of knowledge and attitude towards hepatitis patients. Multinomial logistic model is used to calculate the WTP for vaccination. Direct and indirect annual costs are also calculated for hepatitis B and C. It is found that mostly people have no knowledge about the disease and mostly people had negative attitude toward patients. Income, urban areas and education have positive impact on knowledge and attitude. High income group and educated people are more willing to pay for vaccination and treatment for hepatitis. It is also found that hepatitis treatment cost is very high in Pakistan. It has great economic burden on people. The study shows that hepatitis disease has also significantly negative impact on agriculture production. It is recommended that Government should launch the awareness campaign to increase the knowledge about this disease especially in rural area so that attitude can also be shifted from negative to positive. People have low capacity to pay therefore a large scale vaccination program is suggested to overcome this menace. The average annual cost for treatment of hepatitis per patient is Rs. 152648.91 Per annum. Hepatitis patients spend 28 percent of their average annual income on treatment showing that people have not capacity to afford its treatment. WTP for treatment of hepatitis is also recorded and it endorses the notion above. Therefore, government should intervene in the channel to support the most vulnerable patient (poor) for their treatment.