سید ہاشم علی اختر صاحب
افسوس ہے کہ ۱۴؍ جون ۲۰۰۳ء کو جناب سید ہاشم علی اختر شکاگو میں وفات پاگئے، اناﷲ و انا الیہ راجعون۔
وہ جامعہ عثمانیہ کے مایہ ناز فرزند، حیدرآباد کے نام ور شخص اور ملک کے بڑے دانشور تھے، ان کو ملک کی دو شہرہ آفاق یونیورسٹیوں جامعہ عثمانیہ حیدرآباد اور علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کا وائس چانسلر ہونے کا فخر بھی حاصل ہوا۔
جناب ہاشم علی اختر کی پیدائش ۶؍ اکتوبر ۱۹۲۴ء کو حیدرآباد میں ہوئی تھی، شروع کی تعلیم مدرسوں میں ہوئی، ۱۹۳۸ء میں انہوں نے جامعہ عثمانیہ سے بی ایس سی اور ۱۹۴۴ء میں ایم ایس سی کیا، ان کی طبیعت کا رجحان علم و تعلیم کی طرف تھا، اس لیے شروع میں درس و تدریس ہی کے پیشے سے وابستہ ہوئے، پہلے سٹی ہائی اسکول میں مدرس ہوئے پھر سٹی کالج میں جونیئر لکچرر ہوئے، مگر ان میں نظم و نسق کی صلاحیت بھی بہ درجہ اتم تھی، اس لیے جلد ہی انتظامی شعبے سے ان کا تعلق ہوگیا اور ۱۹۴۶ء میں وہ حیدرآباد سیول سروس کے لیے منتخب ہوگئے، اس کے بعد آئی۔اے۔ایس کے لیے ان کا انتخاب ہوا اور ڈپٹی کلکٹر کے عہدے پر تقرر ہوا جس سے ترقی کرتے ہوئے پرنسپل سکریڑی کے عہدے پر فائز ہوئے۔
ہاشم صاحب کو نظم و نسق کا اچھا سلیقہ تھا، ایک کامیاب اور نیک نام آئی اے ایس آفیسر کی حیثیت سے ان کو بڑی عزت و شہرت ملی، سکریٹریٹ کی اچھی کارکردگی اور خوش انتطامی ہی کی وجہ سے سبکدوش ہونے کے بعد حکومت نے ۱۹۸۲ء میں انہیں جامعہ عثمانیہ حیدرآباد کا وائس چانسلر مقرر کردیا، ابھی اس کی میعاد مکمل نہیں ہوئی تھی کہ ۱۹۸۵ء میں علی گڑھ یونیورسٹی کے وائس چانسلر کے لیے ان کا انتخاب ہوگیا۔
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The Islamic Jurisprudence has given a great importance to the existence of family system of life. That is why the Qur‘ān has described the laws of family life with details in comparison with worship of Allah. In family system of life, marriage has a great importance but marriage is not only essential part of worship. Its purposes one the existence of human generation along with the survival society where there must be modesty and justice but it is only possible if the family system of life is established on everlasting principles. That is why our Islamic Jurisprudence has declared the willingness of both bridegroom and bride and their family more importance in the marriages. Such marriages are always durable and permanent. On the contrary, if there is no willingness of both the bridegroom and bride in marriages. Then such marriages are not durable and permanent. In marriage a girl is a party and the Islamic jurisprudence has given a great deal of importance to her willingness but in pusthoon society, sometimes such marriages are conducted in which the bride concerned has no approval rather she is forced to accept that bond of marriage such marriages are commonly called “Forced Marriages”. The article below is defining the different kinds of forced marriages in vogue and is trying to find out their religious and dogmatic status as well.
This dissertation, The Great Game in Kipling’s Works, argues that Rudyard Kipling thematically treats the Great Game in his masterpiece novel Kim (1901), in an attempt to romanticize British Imperial adventure in Central Asia. This term symbolizes Kipling’s philosophy, reinforced by a Eurocentric perspective of other races and cultures. The framework of this research situates Kipling’s political narrative and diction in his major works that loudly speak of an Imperial world-view. The Great Game of the 19th Century, which the Russians call Tournament of Shadows or Bolshya Igra, is about the diplomatic and intelligence warfare between England and Russia, for supremacy in Central Asia. During the period, daring men, spies and intelligence gatherers, crossed borders, at the risk of their own lives to help win the Game for their respective Empires. The tussle continued for almost a century, culminating in the 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention, as a result of which Afghanistan emerged as a buffer state between the two contending nations. Arthur Connolly (1907-1984) of the Bengal Light Cavalry is credited to have coined the term, Great Game, while Rudyard Kipling (1865-1937), the first Englishman and the youngest recipient of the Noble Prize for literature (1907), fictionalized it in his masterpiece novel, Kim. Though novelists, John Masters in The Lotus and the Wind and George Fraser in Flashman and the Great Game have also treated this theme, yet Kipling mainstreamed the power play. This dissertation consists of five chapters, an Introduction and a Conclusion, discussing how Kipling viewed the Great Game, attaching greatness and glory to it. Chapter One, Kim’s Game, explores the origin of the term, Great Game and its evolution to our times, in such euphuisms as the New Great Game or the New Energy Game, with specific focus on Kipling most celebrated work, Kim (1901). This part of the thesis discusses the novel in detail, giving its many aspects and summarizing how its main protagonist, ii Kimball’ O’ Hara, Kim for short, thwarts Russian designs to encroach on India, the Jewel in the English Crown. Other themes include Buddhism, the Indian social, cultural and religious spectacle, stereotyping and Russophobia, yet it is the very idea of the Great Game that dominates the story of Kim. This chapter also includes discussion on different Frontier Policies of the Raj, and a reference to the so-called Gilgit-Game. An important section covers information about more than a dozen local spies or what this work refers to as local Great Gamers, Gulab Khan and others, operating from Peshawar, Kashmir and other parts of British India. Like their British masters, namely Connolly, Stoddart, Burns, Pottinger, Younghusband and others, they had to face extreme circumstances in their endeavor to bring glory to England. British adventurism in Tibet and most importantly in Afghanistan, particularly the two Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1838, and 1878 respectively, has been dilated upon in detail. Peter Hopkirk’s works have also been reviewed, to highlight Kipling’s perspective on British policy towards Russia, Chapter Two, “Oh East is East”, is about Kipling’s view of the Orient and in this context, his famous poem; The Ballad of the East and West has been appreciated from the standpoint of Oriental studies. The Eurocentric world view held by the writer, explicit in the poems, Recessional-A Victorian Ode, The White Man’s Burden, and Fuzzy-Wuzzy beside the short story, The Enlightenment of Mr. Paget M.P have also been commented upon. Important works by mainstream scholars, particularly Edward Said, on the Orient, racism and cultural diffusion have also been discussed. Chapter Three, Kipling’s ‘Sea of Dreams’, is Kipling specific, focusing on his life and works, including a chronology of his literary career. His encyclopedic work, thematically ranging from Empire to science-fiction, Freemasonry, English history, jingoism, and democracy, has also been reviewed. It has been noted how his view of Empire, at times, overshadows iii his art and even in the children works, like The Jungle Books (1984-1895), a colonial construct is seen at work. Chapter-IV, Politics of Literature, is about Kipling’s politics which he liberally adds to his creative works, more so, his famous Ballads (1892). As a journalist, with the Civil and Military Gazette (CMG), The Pioneer and later on, with The Friend, Kipling passionately wrote to exalt the British Empire and insisted on bringing civilization to the world. Other works, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888), have been referred, highlighting the literature of Colonialism that Kipling so enthusiastically produced. Literature of Empire has been reviewed for comparative analysis, and Kipling’s own works have been critically assessed, to highlight the political content of his works. Chapter-V, Light, Twilight, is about Kipling’s disillusionment and fading of his vision of Imperialism and Empire-building. The bitterness of his later life is summed up through an assessment of his major works. The center point of this chapter establishes that Kipling’s light of Empire turned out to be the twilight of his dream. The review explores that his vision of empire faded, and doubt and cynicism defined the later life of Rudyard Kipling, with the passing of Empire. This research concludes that Kipling’s treatment of the Great Game notifies politics of literature and its imperial narrative is an attempt to apologies for British Empire. Imperialism is his ultimate source of inspiration. His major works contain a Eurocentric world view and an Orientalized perspective with a biased representation. His literature replicates a constructed reality; an idealized colonial order which faded with the passing of colonialism. His later works is defined by disillusionment and despondency with empire-building, becoming twilight of his vision.