وفاتِ عیسیٰ الٰہ آبادی
حضرت مولانا سید محمد عیسیٰ صاحب الہ آبادی نے جو حضرت مولانا تھانویؒ کے اولین خلفا میں تھے، ۲۵؍ ربیع الاول ۱۳۶۳ھ مطابق ۲۱؍ مارچ ۱۹۴۳ء کی سہ پہر کو جونپور میں جہاں وہ بغرض علاج آئے تھے ۶۳ برس کی عمر میں داعی اجل کو لبیک کہا، اِنَّا لِلّٰہِ وَ اِنَّا اِلَیْہِ رَاجِعُوْنَ۔ خیال تھا کہ مرشد رحمۃ اﷲ علیہ کے بعد ان کی ذات مرجع انام بنے گی، مگر اﷲ تعالیٰ اپنی مصلحتوں کو آپ جانتا ہے، ان کا وطن محی الدین پور ضلع الہ آباد تھا، نسبتاً سادات کرام میں تھے اور گھر کے خوش حال زمیندار تھے، غالباً ۱۳۰۱ھ کی پیدائش ہوگی، بچپن ہی سے وہ زاہد و متقی تھے، باپ کے حکم سے انگریزی شروع کی اور بی اے تک پڑھ کر چھوڑ دیا اور ایک اسکول میں انگریزی کے ماسٹر اور آخر میں گورنمنٹ کالج الہ آباد میں عربی کے پروفیسر ہوگئے۔
نوجوان ہی تھے کہ الہ آباد کانپور میں حضرت مولانا تھانویؒ کے مواعظ سننے کا اتفاق ہوا، جو بات سنی، دل میں گھر کرتی چلی گئی اور روز بروز یہ نشہ تیز سے تیز تر ہوتا چلا گیا، یہاں تک کہ بیعت و ارادت سے مشرف ہوکر مجاہدہ ریاضت میں مصروف ہوئے، آخر تکمیل طریق کے بعد خلافت و اجازت سے سرفراز ہوئے۔
اﷲ تعالیٰ کی شان بندہ نوازی نظر آتی ہے کہ ایک انڈر گریجویٹ میں جس نے صرف انگریزی ہی کی تعلیم پائی تھی چند روز میں یہ انقلاب پیدا ہوا کہ اس نے اس عمر میں آکر سرکاری ملازمت کے ساتھ عربی تعلیم پوری کی اور قرآن و حدیث کا علم حاصل کیا اور ساتھ ہی قرآن پاک حفظ کیا اور سیرت و صورت میں یہ رنگ پیدا کیا کہ کوئی دیکھ کر یہ بھی نہیں کہہ سکتا تھا کہ وہ انگریزی...
West generally blames the Muslim world on the grounds that it does not accede to freedom of expression. But in fact, Islam gave the right of freedom of expression for the first time in history. In Rome before Islam was introduced, the rulers used to enslave the masses. Greek ministers, Roman Catholic pastorates, Spanish Inquisitions and the ministerial experts used to rebuff the individuals who used to articulate unapproved religious perspectives. The British Parliament passed a Bill of Rights in 1689. This bill proclaimed the right to speak freely. It returned amid the French Revolution of 1789 which declared speaking freely as a natural right of each person. As indicated by Holy Quran there might be no impulse in acknowledgment of the religion which is also proved from Sunnah and through the actions of the companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Blasphemy law is a law related to blasphemy, or irreverence toward holy prophets, or beliefs or religious traditions. In the provisions of Article 18 and 19 of the U.N. Charter, no limitations were made for expression which has left the room open for the defamation on name of freedom of speech. According to Islam, maintaining the honor and respect of all people is essential for regional, national and universal peace. Any articulation which abuses peace, honor and pride of any individual, race, religious gathering or any minority assembly as a rule and so forth cannot be incorporated into the meaning of flexibility of articulation or freedom of speech.
The ongoing climatic changes and the global warming have intrigued researchers to explore the impact of different policies on the environmental quality. In this study, we focus on the question as to whether freer trade policy is compatible with environmental quality standards. There is no simple pattern of the association between the trade and environmental quality. The main objectives are to construct an index of Trade Liberalization Policy, to investigate the role of the trade liberalization in the environmental quality by decomposing the scale, composition and technique effect and to explore the additional social and institutional channels through which trade liberalization may cause environmental quality. The estimated empirical findings regarding the effects of the trade liberalization policy on imports and exports are strong and robust in different model specifications. Reductions in export and import duties have a significant positive effect on imports and exports of the panel countries with the overall impact on imports being greater than exports, while the liberalized trade regime has a significant positive influence on expanding trade volumes. The empirical findings reveal a mixed but moderate effect of the trade liberalization policy on the environmental quality. Trade liberalization policy appears to affect environmental quality differently through different channels. The net affect also varies across different pollutants. The trade liberalization policy has a detrimental effect on the environmental quality, through six out of ten channels. The channels which appear damaging to the environment include scale effect, energy use, manufacturing, democracy, poverty and xvii foreign direct investment. However, the trade policy liberalization benefits environment through four channels which include technique/income effect, physical capital, human capital and control over corruption. The net impact of liberalized trade policies is detrimental to the environment in case of carbon dioxide and composite index of emissions. However, in case of sulfur dioxide emissions, the overall net impact appears beneficial to the environment by lowering the SO2 emissions. This study has also examined the performance of the model by applying standard forecasting techniques such as within-sample and out-of-sample forecasts. The findings demonstrate that the model tracks data well and has very small mean prediction errors. The Theil’s Inequality Coefficient (TIC) also approaches zero in almost all cases. Thus the model can be used as a tool for carrying out structural analysis, forecasting and policy evaluation. Overall, in the trade-environment nexus, this study justifies the ambiguity regarding the impact of the freer trade on the environmental quality through different channels offering opposing effects. The findings of the present study necessitate the policy formulation to be multi-dimensional for dealing with simultaneously occurring positive and negative impacts.