شیخ عبدالعزیز بن باز
گزشتہ ماہ علامہ شیح عبدالعزیز بن عبدﷲ بن باز نے ۸۸ برس کی عمر میں داعی اجل کو لبیک کہا، انا ﷲوانا الیہ راجعون۔ وہ مملکت سعودیہ کے جلیل القدر عالم، مفتی اعظم، علمائے کبار کی سپریم کونسل نیز دارالافتاء اور مجلس بحوث علمیہ کے سربراہ رابطہ عالم اسلامی، الجمع الفقہی الاسلامی اور اس نوع کی متعدد عالمی سطح کی علمی و تحقیقی، دعوتی اور فلاحی انجمنوں اور اداروں کے اساسی رکن تھے۔ دارالمصنفین میں شیخ کی وفات کی خبر بڑے رنج و غم سے سنی گئی اور تغریت کے لیے برقیہ بھی بھیجا گیا۔
شیخ عبدالعزیز بن باز کتاب و سنت کے متبحر عالم، تقویٰ و طہارت، ﷲیت اور سادگی اور خلوص و خدمت کا مجسم پیکر تھے، ان کی وفات دنیائے اسلام کا بڑا سانحہ ہے اس سے پیدا ہونے والا خلا پُر نہیں ہوسکتا۔ ولکنہ بنیان قوم تھدما۔
شیخ ابن باز نہایت کم عمری میں آنکھوں کی بصارت سے محروم ہوگئے، مگر اپنی غیر معمولی علمی و فقہی بصیرت کی بنا پر مملکت سعودیہ کے اہم مذہبی مناصب پر فائز ہوئے الجامعتہ الاسلامیہ ( مدینہ یونیورسٹی) کے پہلے وائس چانسلر کی حیثیت سے ان کا انتخاب ہوا۔ مملکت کے مفتی عالم شیخ محمد ابراہیم کے انتقال کے بعد ان کے جانشین مقرر ہوئے۔
مملکت سعودیہ میں ان کو غیر معمولی عزت و احترام حاصل تھا، سربراہان مملکت بھی ان کے ساتھ نہایت عزت و تکریم کے ساتھ پیش آتے۔ ان کے جنازہ میں فرماں روائے مملکت شاہ فہد، اعیان مملکت اور شاہی خانوادہ کے علاوہ لاکھوں افراد نے شرکت کی۔
غرباء پروری اور مہمان نوازی ان کی گھٹی میں تھی، ان کی قیام گاہ پر ہمیشہ مہمانوں اور ضرورت مندوں کا جمگھٹ لگا رہتا اور وہ نہایت بشاشت کے ساتھ ان کی میزبانی کرتے اور حاجت روائی کرتے...
His distinction was that he reflected over the Islamic system and applied it upon the modem age. He proved that the teachings of Islam cover not only faith, beliefs and rituals of worship but also rule all the aspects of social and moral values of a Muslim. He proved with profound arguments that these fundamental principles prevail and govern the Muslim society and its ethics. Shah Waliullah had a broad vision and a versatile approach towards the different aspects of political, moral and social behaviors. The most important thing about his contributions is that his views are widely accepted and welcomed by the scholars who came after him.
Corpus-Based Genre Analysis: Computer Science Research Article Introductions Conventional definitions of genres, based on the notions of specific conventions such as of content (theme, setting etc.) and form (structure and style) have been disputed. Some scholars do not believe in the rigid rules of inclusion and exclusion of texts in a particular genre as they can be recognized intutively as instances of repetition and difference because of their 'family resemblences' among texts. Swales (1990) prefers the psycholinguistic concept of `prototypicality'. Genres usually go through phases or cycles of popularity as the crucial ideological concerns of the time in which they are popular are embodied in the generic conventions. The popular genre of research article, amongst the research and academic community, is undergoing a continuous evolution. Many scholars have attempted to explore this complex process of writing research article. The list is long, to name some: Berkenkotter and Huckin (1995); Montgomery (1996); Salager-Meyer (1998); Atkinson (1999); Valle (1999); Gross et al. (2002). The work of these scholars includes research articles from different disciplines. However, such scholarly work in the field of Computer science is limited. Cooper (1985), Posteguille (1999) and Anthony (1999) studies are either too broad or too narrow. As compared to these works, the present study addresses the issue at a greater length and is more in depth. The increasing use of computer led text corpora containing millions of words inspired the utilization of the corpus-based techniques for the present research. A corpus of 56 Research articles was created electronically. These articles were taken from five different journals of IEEE, the leading Computer society of the world. Wordsmith tools such as word frequency list, key word, collocation and concordance were applied to the corpus. Secondly, Swales (2004) CARS model was applied for the rhetorical analysis. Lexico-erammaticl analysis was done in terms of the rhetorical objectives of writing Introductions. The findings of the research as discussed in Chapter four focus on the syntactic and lexical patterns evident in the data. Theses include interesting N-grams (three and four word clusters); voice of the author (very different from the authors of other disciplines) and passivization of verbs. These stylistic excursions make an initial contribution to our understanding of Computer science research articles Introductions. The last three chapters of the dissertation constitute the heart of the discoursal analysis of the 56 Introductions in the corpus. These examine the structural-rhetorical features of the moves and steps involved, and the possible linkages between form and function. A revised CARS model has been suggested for writing Introductions of computer science research articles. Some recommendations have been put forward. The dissertation concludes with a note on the pedagogical relevance of the study.