اختر انیس
ناظرین معارف کو یہ خبر سن کر بہت رنج ہوگا کہ جناب اختر انیس سینئر جنرل منیجر بی۔سی۔سی۔آئی نے لندن میں انتقال کیا، ان کا وطن اعظم گڑھ تھا اور وہ دارالمصنفین کے سب سے زیادہ حاضر باش جناب امین الدین صاحب مرحوم کے خویش تھے، اختر انیس مرحوم بڑے متین و سنجیدہ شخص تھے، بڑے عہدہ پر ہونے کے باوجود ان میں غرور و تمکنت نام کو بھی نہ تھی۔ ان کی وفات سے دارالمصنفین اپنے ایک بہت مخلص ہواخواہ سے محروم ہوگیا، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کو جنت الفردوس عطا فرمائے، آمین۔
(ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، جولائی ۱۹۸۸ء)
Youth are the real asset of a nation, nation make progress by channelizing, the energy and effects of youth in the right direction. If youth of a nation go astray, the nation will be bound to fail. This short paper intends to look at the challenges faced by our youth for example, the political, religious and philosophical influence of anti-Islam powers, the use of all resources to attract youth to Islam, the attraction of Muslim youth to philosophy, to look into the influence of west through education which is leading the nation to financial and social way wardenss Indecency, Arabic language is replaced with other language for teaching and understanding of the Qur’ān and Unemployment, poverty and a sense of uselessness of youth is a huge challenge. This factor is leading the youth to stealing, robbery and other moral weaknesses. This short article will try to throw light on the challenges and responsibilities of youth. The history of mankind tells us that it is only the young people, who took the revolutionary measures to change the societies. Youth is the prime time of ones life. It is the time when all energies are at their peak. So one should get advantage of youth before getting old and helth before falling sick. As they say “new broom sweap clean”. Young people can bring great changes in cleaning socieities from evils. Muslim youth has great resficial to whole humanity. Today, youth is facing many challenges in their life. These challenges are in social, moral, educational, intellectual and political fields. To cope with them youth must have the knowledge and awareness. This short article tends to throw light on these challenges and gives ways and remedies to face them successfully.
Chlorinated organic compounds are released to the environment as a result of production, use and inefficient handling of these compounds. Such compounds are highly stable, toxic toward living organisms including humans and causes cancer and other disorders. Trichloroethylene (TCE), a representative of chlorinated organic compounds is largely used in various industries and its release impacts adversely on environment. To control its damaging effects, removal and decomposition of TCE is highly desirable. The current study is focused on synthesis of novel Iron loaded spherical mesoporous silica particles (SMSPs) and its application as adsorbent for dechlorination of TCE. The silica was synthesized using modified Stöber’s method at varying temperatures (20-70 °C) to study its effect on the size and porosity of the synthesized particles. Loading of iron into silica follows two routes to carry out pre and post modification of mesoporous silica particles through sol gel and reduction process. During the synthesis, ratio of silica to Iron is varied from 1:10 to 1:5 to study its impact on loaded iron and porosity of the Iron loaded spherical mesoporous silica particles (Fe-SMSPs). The synthesized particles were characterized using a range of techniques including fourier transformed Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), raman spectroscopy, Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), dcanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and BET surface area measurement. The results show that synthesized SMSPs have mean diameter of 627±140 nm at room temperature and decreases to 408±156 nm at 60 °C. SMSPs also exhibited high BET surface area (627 m2/g) that determines its high efficiency for uptake of iron into the mesoporous structure. However, loss of spherical structure is also witnessed on increasing silica to iron ratio (1:3) during synthesis. Series of batch experiments were carried out to test dechlorination efficiency of the synthesized Fe-SMSPs against TCE. HPLC data indicated rapid decrease and removal of 25 ppm TCE in two hours at room temperature. Mass spectrometry revealed formation of hydrocarbons as dechlorination products. The present research concludes that the synthesized Fe-SMSPs have a promising potential to be used for dechlorination of TCE contaminated water. This has special preference for underground water treatment. Future prospects determine applicability of these materials for dechlorination of other chlorinated organic compounds than TCE.