روش صدیقی
افسوس ہے گزشتہ ماہ جناب روش صدیقی بھی رہ گزائے عالم جادوانی ہوگئے۔ مرحوم بلند پایہ اورصاحب فن شاعرتھے۔ان کی شہرت کا آغاز رومانی نظموں سے ہوا جو اس زمانہ کے مشہور ادبی رسالوں میں بڑے اہتمام سے چھپتی تھیں اورجنہیں وہ اپنی خاص پرجوش آواز میں لہرالہراکر پڑھتے تھے۔بعد میں ان کی شاعری حکمت وفلسفہ اورانسانی ووطنی مسائل وآلام کی ترجمان بن گئی لیکن ان کا کلام غامض اور دقیق ہوتاتھااورالفاظ اورتراکیب پرشکوہ وباوقار،طبیعت میں روانی اورجدت پسندی بلا کی تھی۔اخلاقی اعتبار سے بڑے باوضع،ملنسار اورمذہبی حیثیت سے صوم وصلوٰۃ کے اورارادو وظائف تک کے پابند تھے۔انتقال سے چھ سات روزپہلے(۱۴/جنوری)کوشام کے وقت نئی دہلی کے ریلوے اسٹیشن پر اچانک ملاقات ہوگئی توحسب معمول بڑے تپاک سے ملے اورمعانقہ کیا۔کافی ہشاش بشاش اورمگن تھے۔اس وقت اس کاوہم وگمان بھی نہیں ہو سکتا تھا کہ اس عالم آب وگل میں وہ بس اب چندروز کے اورمہمان ہیں اوران سے یہ آخری دید و شنید ہے۔شاہ جہاں پور کے ایک مشاعرے میں گئے تھے وہیں دل کادورہ ہوا اور جاں بحق ہوگئے۔اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی قبر کو ٹھنڈی رکھے اوران کے پسماندگان کا حامی وناصرہو۔آمین [فروری۱۹۷۱ء]
The opponents of Islam and its prophet, Muhammad (p) including some of the orientalists, have always tried their best to distort the real image of Islam and malign the person of the holy Prophet. They have produced many baseless stories and notions about the teachings of Islam and the person and life of the holy Prophet. They accused the Prophet (p) of having compiled the Qur’an out of the teachings of Christianity, Judaism and the customs of pre-Muhammadan Arabs. They maintain that Muhammad (p) was caught by epilepsy and trances, out of which he pretended to having received the Quranic revelation. They mention the incident of ‘Shaq al-Sadr’ (splitting up of the bosom of the prophet in his childhood) and the shivering condition of the holy Prophet(p) while receiving the revelations as hallucination of epileptic fits. But the history, medical science, the logical reasoning and the impartial orientalists have absolutely rejected their biased allegations on the personality of the holy Prophet. They certified that Muhammad (p) had never suffered from any type of such ailment like epileptic fits, seizers, trances or the falling sickness. The author is this paper refutes the allegation of epilepsy to the prophet with the help of impartial studies of the orientalists and evidences from the medical science, thus, highlighted the superficiality of the investigations of some orientalists about Islam and Its Prophet.
This study comprises Ph.D. work entitled: “Isolation and Analytical Characterization of Phytochemicals from Some Selected Indigenous Medicinal Plants”. In this regard, five plants species namely Abies pindrow, Salvadora oleiodes, Aerva javanica, Alhagi maurorum (Alhagi camelorum) and Calligonum polygonoides were selected. The work described in this thesis comprises of extraction, isolation and identification of phytochemicals constituents using chromatographic, spectroscopic and x-rays crystallographic techniques. In all, 106 compounds were identified from these selected plant species. From Abies pindrow leaves, maltol (3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4H-pyran-4-one) (1) was isolated, which is neutral, heterocyclic aroma compound; widely known as food additive, antioxidant and metal ions chelator. In another study, eleven fatty acids including eight saturated and three unsaturated fatty acids ranging from C14 to C24 and eleven hydrocarbons including nine saturated two unsaturated ranging from C17 to C24 were identified from the leaves of Abies pindrow. Chemical compositions of the essential oil of Salvadora oleiodes revealed the total 35 (94.0%) and 25 (91.1%) chemical constituents in oil of leaves and stem, respectively. The major chemical constituent of the leaves and stem oil was 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol. Chemical compositions of the essential oil of Aerva javanica revealed the total 16 (82.96%), 16 (78.92%) chemical constituents in oil of leaves and stem, respectively. The major chemical constituents of the leaves and stem oil were hentriacontane (21.48%) and nonacosane (23.26%), respectively. Aerva javanica seed essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation (HD) and dry steam distillation (SD) extracting methods. Total 20 (90.5%) and 18 (95.6%) chemical constituents were identified, using HD and SD, respectively. The major constituent identified from seed essential oil was heptacosane. Chemical compositions of the essential oil of Alhagi maurorum revealed the, total 16 (56.8%) and 21 (76.7%) chemical constituents in oil of leaves and stem respectively. Preliminary phytochemicals screening revealed that alkaloids, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, steroids, phenols, carbohydrates, proteins and terpenoids are present in the roots, stems, buds, flowers and seeds of Calligonum polygonoides, whereas amino acids, cardiac glycoside and phlobatannins are absent. Chemical compositions of the essential oil of C. polygonoides revealed the, total 23 (97.3%), 25 (92.2%), 27 (68.42%), and 10 (82.12%) chemical constituents in oil of fruit, stem, buds and root respectively. The major chemical constituents of the fruit, stem, buds and root oil were (Z,Z)-9,12-octadecadienoic acid (40.7%), hexadecanoic acid (42.9%), homovanillate (11.79%) and drimenol (29.42%), respectively. From C. polygonoides campesterol (102), stigmasterol (103), (3β,5α,24S)- stigmastan-3-ol (104), stigmast-4-en-3-one (105) and methandriol (106) were isolated. Extraction, isolation and identification of compounds were carried out by using latest sophisticated instrumental techniques. The chromatographic techniques were used to separate these compounds and the identities of these compounds were checked by physical and chemical methods. Finally the structures were elucidated by different spectroscopic methods including FTIR, UV, EIMS, 1H and 13 CNMR. The structures of these compounds were also further confirmed through x-ray crystallographic analysis.