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شری لال بہادر شاستری

لال بہادر شاستری
پنڈت جواہر لال نہرو کا غم ابھی فراموش نہ ہوا تھا کہ ملک نے ایک اور لعل بے بہا کھودیا، شری لال بہادر شاستری کی موت ہندوستان کا عظیم ترین حادثہ ہے۔ ان کی موت سے ہندوستان ایک ایسے فرزند سے محروم ہوگیا جس کی تلافی مدتوں نہ ہوسکے گی، انھوں نے ملک و قوم کی خاطر غریب الوطنی میں جان دی اور مرنے سے پہلے ایک ایسا کارنامہ انجام دے گئے جو ہند و پاک کی تاریخ میں یادگار رہے گا، مگر افسوس کہ اس کے خوشگوار نتائج اپنی آنکھوں سے نہ دیکھ سکے، پنڈت جواہر لال نہرو کی زندگی ہی میں یہ سوال پیدا ہوگیا تھا کہ ان کے بعد کوئی ایسی شخصیت نظر نہیں آتی جو وزارت عظمیٰ کے بارگراں کو سنبھال سکے، لیکن شاستری جی نے اٹھارہ مہینہ کی مختصر مدت میں یہ ثابت کردیا کہ وہ پنڈت جی کے صحیح جانشین تھے۔ اس قلیل مدت میں بڑے پیچیدہ اور نازک معاملات پیش آئے، لیکن شاستری جی نے اپنے فہم و تدبر اور ہمت و پامردی سے ان کا پورا مقابلہ کیا، معاہدہ تاشقند تو ان کے اور جنرل ایوب کے تدبر کا شاہکار ہے، گو اس سے سب مختلف فیہ مسائل حل نہیں ہوگئے، لیکن ہندوستان اور پاکستان کی ہلاکت خیز جنگ کا خاتمہ ہوگیا، اور صلح و مسالمت کی ایسی فضا پیدا ہوگئی ہے کہ اگر فریقین نے ہوشمندی سے کام لیا تو ہندوستان و پاکستان کے درمیان مصالحت اور دوستی کا خوشگوار دور شروع ہوسکتا ہے۔
شاستری جی بڑے ٹھنڈے دل و دماغ کے اور طبعاً نرم مزاج، صلح جو اور امن پسند انسان تھے، لیکن سختی کے موقع پر سخت اور ہمت و استقلال کا پیکر بن جاتے تھے، انھوں ے اپنی سلامت روی اور ہوشمندی سے ملک کو بڑے نازک حالات سے نکالا، افسوس ہے...

Impact of Holy Quran Recitation on Psychological Wellbeing Among Muslim Youth

The present study is aimed to examine the relation of Holy Qur’ān recitation and psychological wellbeing among the Muslim Youth. People find no time for offering prayers and reciting Holy Qur’ān because they are very busy in their daily routines and if they do so, they do it for short period of time when they are in some trouble. The objectives include firstly the exploration of the relationship of Holy Qur’ān recitation and psychological wellbeing. Second objective of the study is to explore the correlation of the Holy Qur’ān recitation with depression, anxiety and stress among young Muslims. Study sample comprises of 100 young Muslims (43 males and 57 females) falling between 17 and 25 years from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Instruments used for data collection include psychological wellbeing scale by Kamman and Flett (1983) and DASS (depression anxiety stress scale) by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995) and a demographic sheet. Results of the study showed that significant positive relationship exists between Holy Qur’ān recitation and psychological wellbeing among young Muslims and Holy Qur’ān recitation negatively relates with depression, anxiety and stress. The present study findings support that those young Muslims who had more rate of Holy Qur’ān recitation were psychologically more stable as compared to non-frequent reciters. In the light of findings of current study, it can be declared as a quintessence that Holy Qur’ān Recitation can serve as an influential element in ensuring the positive mental health of youth. Educators and Policy makers can play a crucial role in promotion of Holy Qur’ān familiarity which will make certain the psychological and mental health of youth and of the society at large.

Conflict Between State and Society in Pakistan: An Analysis of Psychosocial Dimensions

The state and society emerged simultaneously on 14th of August 1947. Before that day, Pakistani society had no shared existence and was only an “imagined community” in the literal sense of the phrase. The state of Pakistan became an administrative arrangement put in place by the British rulers to ensure their hold through a coercive dispensation. The change of regime did not immediately and fundamentally alter the nature or structure of the state. The psychosocial dimensions of values, attitudes and behaviour of the central authority and its structures remained colonial. The state, its institutions and officials were not “Pakistanized”; and the basic paradigm of relationship between state and the people has remained that of the “rulers and the ruled”. The state has manifested anti-people behaviour and shown proclivity to use coercion against the society. Judiciary, civil and military bureaucracy and police along with the co-opted clergyhave become deeply interwoven in maintaining their hold over the society. On the other hand, the institutions of society have not been able to develop values, attitudes, and behaviours that could create a caring, progressive, and pluralistic national state. This conflict in incompatible values, hostile attitudes and behaviours between state and society institutions and individuals is continuing. Consequently, the state has become fragile and the society has become more fragmented. The resolution of this conflict requires psychosocial transformation in individuals and institutions of the state and society.
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