مولوی عبدالباری
افسوس ہے کہ دارالمصفین کے قدیم اور مخلص خدمت گذار مولوی عبدالباری صاحب ۳۰؍ جون کو وفات پاگئے، ان کی عمر ۹۰ سال سے متجاوز تھی، دارالمصنفین کے ابتدائی دور میں حضرت مولانا سید سلیمان ندویؒ نے انہیں تصحیح اور کتب خانہ کی نگرانی کے کام پر مامور کیا تھا جس کو دو برس پہلے تک وہ انجام دیتے رہے، دارالمصنفین کے عروج کا دور دیکھنے والے اب تنہا وہی رہ گئے تھے، ان کی تعلیم مدرسۃ الاصلاح سرائمیر میں ہوئی تھی اور وہ مولانا امین اصلاحی مدظلہ، کے ہم سبق تھے، دارالمصنفین سے وابستگی کی وجہ سے انہیں مضمون نگاری کا چسکہ لگ گیا تھا، ابو علی اثری اور ابو علی اعظمی کے نام سے مدۃالعمر اخباروں اور رسالوں میں مضامین لکھتے رہے، علامہ شبلیؒ کے بڑے مداح اور سیدصاحب کے نہایت عقیدت مند تھے، ان کا ذکر برابر لطف ولذت سے کرتے تھے ان پر اور مولانا ابو الکلام آزاد پر بے شمار مضامین لکھے، دونوں بزرگوں پر ان کے مضامین کے ایک ایک مجموعے ضیاء اﷲ کھوکھر صاحب (گوجرانوالہ، پاکستان) نے شایع کیا تھا، اپنی خودداری کی وجہ سے کسی کا منت کش ہونا گوارا نہیں کیا اور قناعت پسندی کی بنا پر ایک قلیل مشاہرہ پر پوری زندگی گذار دی، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی بشری لغزشوں کو معاف فرمائے اور جنت نعیم میں جگہ دے، آمین۔ (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، جولائی ۱۹۹۳ء)
The issue of the source and origin of Sufism in Islam is a complex one. A number of scholars, since the latter half of the nineteenth century have put forward conflicting claims. Earlier Orientalists thought that a Sufism developed from a single source while the latter scholars think a number of different sources should be considered as origin of Sufism. Both groups agree, however, in maintaining that Sufism is an addition to Islam and did not originally belong to Islam. Different opinions have been presented regarding the true source of Sufism, for example, Persian, Indian, Christian, Jewish and Neo-Platonic philosophies. The present paper intends to refute these charges of external influences on Islamic Sufism and attempts to show that the real origin of Islamic Sufism lies nowhere but in the teachings of the Holy Qur’an, Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and lives of the blessed companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
It is a mixed methods study, about investigating the roles of educational leaders for quality learning environment in the Public and Private sector universities at Lahore. The objective of this study was to identify the gaps in the roles being played and entrusted to educational leaders. It highlights the current picture by finding the practiced roles being compared with the quality and leadership of public and private universities, point out the quality indicators and relationship of leadership with learning environment in the selected universities. The study was restricted to the public and private universities of Lahore which are recognized by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. The population consisted of all the Deans, Directors, HODs, Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and lecturers of the universities at Lahore working in the four faculties like Natural Sciences, Management Sciences, Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences. This population was divided in two tiers viz tier one was comprised of Deans, Directors, HODs, Professors, Associate Professors second tier was stretched over Assistant Professors and lecturers of the universities at Lahore working in the four faculties. Census sampling was done for the first tier and for the second tier all were approached and those who gave their willingness were added in the sample. Researcher tried to get the complete picture of the educational leadership roles for quality learning environments of universities. A self-developed rating scale was prepared, got validated by experts and then pilot tested for which Cronbatch Alpha Cofficient came out to be (r= .873). The rating scale was stretched over the roles related to educational services and administrative services for students. The sample consisted of 349 respondents out of which 247 were from public and 102 were from private universities. Triangulation process was applied to make data converge. The retired directors, head of the departments and other faculty members were interviewed as a focus group. Other methods were adopted to get the picture of educational roles for physical learning environment of these universities selected. These methods included use of observation schedule and documentary analysis. SPSS 22 was used for the quantitative analysis of data. Crosstabs, factor analysis, factor loading and regression analysis was computed. Interviews, documentary analysis and observations were also analyzed. Researcher evaluated the roles of educational leaders for educational services for students, administrative services for students, quality indicators of both public and private universities and emerging models were also derived from this study. Findings showed that public universities‘ faculty are better in their academic and administrative roles than private universities. Further it is proved that physical learning environment of public universities is more attuned to quality standards of HEC Pakistan than private universities.