علامہ غلام رسول سعيدى كى خدمات

Allama Ghulam Rasool Saeedi is a noted contemporary Islamic scholar knows for his brilliant style of writing and ……. The way he dealt with the differing ahadith by removing the objections through providing justifying explanations in his works such as “Tibyan al Quran”, Sharah Sahih Muslim” “Tibyan Al Quraan, Sharha Saheeh Muslim, Tibyan al Furqan, Ne’am Al Bari Sharha Saheeh al Bukhari” is a great display of his skills. This article deals with conflicts found in differing ahadith quoted in “ Sharah Sahih Muslim”. In his book Ghulam Rasool saeedi has claims that there is no confilict in Ahadith but it is considered as such due to limitations of human being mind in perceive his the meanings of Ahadith. In his works he presented ample proofs to remove conflicts among the differing narrations. Some examples of his contributions in this regard include the important topics such as taking the name of Allah during ablution. He has established conformity between Quran and the Sunnah by clarifying segregation between the obligatory steps of ablution according to Quraan and the sunnah of the prophet ﷺ. Further he has conformed conflicting narrations relating to valid and invalid marriage with and/or without the permission of the guardian of the woman. He also discuss approval and disapproval of marriage in the state of wearing “Ihram” and conformity in narrations dealing with establishing purity and cleanliness of leather by tanning. Conformity in narrations stating the sacredness of Makka Muazzima and Madina Munawwara through logical reasoning.

Biosystematics of Damselflies Zygoptera: Odonata of Pakistan

Damselflies or Zygoptera, an important group of predators and biodiversity indicator, has been neglected in Pakistan. Partially to redress this, damselflies were collected from various localities of Pakistan during 2004 – 2008. A total of 1061 damselflies collected, yielding 51 species in 26 genera and 5 families. Eight species, namely; Libellago lineata lineata, Libellago greeni, Protosticta hearseyi, Coeliccia vacca, Cylonolestes cyanea, Ellatoneura souteri, Ellatoneura campioni and Ellatoneura atkinsoni are recorded for the first time from Pakistan. A new species of Indocnemis ahmedi sp. nov. is described from Nouseri (AJK) and Dasu (N.W.F.P). All species incorporated into key are illustrated by their valid names, synonyms, measurement of body parts (abdomen, forewing and hindwing length), habitat description, sex ratio of collected specimens with their dates of collection, distribution range, differential characters from published description for new records to country and comprehensive characters description for new to science specimen has been provided. The known distribution of all the species is also updated. A map is provided of the distribution of each of them. Biodiversity indices study indicates that it was comparatively higher in AJ&K as compared to Punjab, N.W.F.P, Baluchistan, Sindh and Northern areas respectively. Comparison of all the collected damselflies was done on area basis as well as on time period basis. Results revealed significant diferences among 3 species and non-significant in 30 species on area basis. On time period basis, 33 species showed decreased length and 17 species showed increase in length. Sex ratio for whole collection was also calculated and it was found female biased.