الف۔ اشخاص:
سیالکوٹ کی مٹی بڑی زرخیز اور مردم خیز ہے۔سر زمینِ سیالکوٹ نے علم و ادب اور فنونِ لطیفہ کے میدانوں میں گراں قدر خدمات سر انجام دی ہیں۔سیالکوٹ کی علمی و ادبی اہمیت مسلمہ ہے۔ہر دور میں خواہ وہ ہندو راج ہو یا مغلیہ راج یا انگریز راج سیالکوٹ نے ہر دور میں علمی و ادبی مرکز کے حوالے سے اپنی شناخت قائم رکھی ہے۔یہاں سے بہت سی نامور روحانی اور علمی و ادبی شخصیات نے جنم لیاہے اور بعض نے یہاں کی روحانی اور علمی وا دبی شخصیات سے فیض حاصل کیا ہے۔
اطہر سلیمی کی تحقیق کے مطابق سیالکوٹ قبل مسیح بھی ایک عظیم تعلیمی مرکز تھا وہ اس حوالے سے رقم طراز ہیں:
۷۰۰ق م سے ۶۰۰ ق م تک یہ اتنا عظیم تعلیمی مرکز بن چکا تھا کہ بنارس کے شہزادے بھی حصول علم کے لیے یہاں آتے تھے۔(۵۹)
مغلیہ عہد حکومت میں سیالکوٹ برصغیر پاک و ہند کے علمی مراکز میں سے ایک اہم علمی مرکز تھا۔خاص طور پر ملاّ کمال کشمیری(م ۱۰۱۷ھ) اورا ن کے شاگر د ملا عبدالحکیم سیالکوٹی کے مکاتیب نے بڑی شہرت پائی۔جہاں ملک اور بیرون ملک کے دور دراز گوشوں سے طالبان علم کھنچے چلے آتے تھے ۔اس زمانے میں سیالکوٹ میں نامی گرامی علما کا اجتماع رہا کرتا تھا۔(۶۰)
اکبر کے زمانے میں حضرت شاہ حمزہ غوث بڑے متقی بزرگ اور پرہیز گار گزرے ہیں ۔اکبر بادشاہ بھی سیالکوٹ آتا آپ کی صحبت میں ضرور حاضر ہوتا اور آپ کے کارناموں کی وجہ سے آپ کے لیے بہت بڑی جاگیر مقرر کی تھی۔حمزہ غوث آپ ہی کی جاگیر پر آباد ہے اس محلہ میں آپ کا مزار اور چلہ گاہ موجود ہے۔
Gog and Magog Interpretations by Modern Scholars and its Application on Contemporary Nations: An Analytical Study According to the Islamic point of view Gog and Magog (Ya’jūj Ma’jūj), are two such supernatural and aggressive powers that will reveal from some unknown place. According to Islamic sources the two disbelieving powers (tribes) are the children of Yāfith son of Noah. Humanity will affect badly at their severely harmful activities on the earth. In the beginning they were free into some unknown place. The famous king Dhulqarnayn imprisoned them behind an unknown thick wall in human history. There are many conjectures regarding the wall, and it is sometimes considered in any Norwegian country because of too long duration of sunrise in these countries. Their population will be 10 times more than the World’s populations. They will be so much trouble creating nation from the race of Noah (A.S) even Isa (Christ) will take refuge on the mountain of Toor and Muslims will pray Allah to get rid of them. Today some modern Islamic researchers have been claiming that they are in fact, Chines or Russians as we find their resemblance in prophet's traditions. In this article, an attempt has been made to unveil the disputed matter that either they exist in current age in form of living peoples or some hidden which will be revealed before the end of time. The purpose of this research is to revisit different speculations about Gog and Magog as we find them also into the Bible. Many Muslims research took effect from Bible’s concept ignoring the traditions of the prophet and find out many different solutions which, according to me are to be seen into the true and clear facts by Quran and Sunnah.
Critical Discourse Analysis of BA English Text Book: A Feminist Perspective. Critical Discourse Analysis [CDA] finds out power relation and hegemony in social relations. It identifies social injustices in social relations naturalized through social and discourse practices. Moreover, CDA examines, from feminist perspective, the unequal power relations based on gender disparities and gender inequalities. The feminist CDA investigates the portrayal of female gender in discourse practices in patriarchal roles. The gender biased curriculum has impact on the personalities and cogitative abilities of the students. The gender biased curriculum portrays women either in negative roles or in gender biased roles as housewives engaged in domestic chores. This study investigates whether English text books at BA level in Pakistan portray women in traditional roles as cooking and looking after children. This study examines the construction of female identity, assigning occupational roles on bases of gender, marginalizing female gender and uplifting male gender in English text books at BA level. These aspects are the focus of the present study in order to find out the gender disparities in the textbooks selected for the present study. Power relation is also exercised through language. The present study explores the use of language in constructing identities based on gender. The study focuses the selection of words in the depiction of male and female gender in the textbooks. The analysis takes account of the depiction of patriarchal roles with the help of language for each gender.