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گُن اُنؐ کے ہی گاتا ہے اپنا کہ بیگانہ ہے


گُن اُنؐ کے ہی گاتا ہے اپنا کہ بیگانہ ہے
’’اِک میں ہی نہیں اُن پر قربان زمانہ ہے‘‘

حامدؐ بھی وہ احمدؐ بھی ‘ محمودؐ و محمد ﷺ بھی
’’جو ربِ دو عالم کا محبوب یگانہ ہے‘‘

صد کیف کا عالم ہے اِک پل تیری مدحت کا
صد رشکِ گہر اُس پل آنکھوں کا بھر آنا ہے

بچپن سے ہی ہونٹوں پر سرکارؐ کی مدحت ہے
ٹوٹے نہ الٰہی یہ بندھن جو پُرانا ہے

جس ذاتؐ کی آمد پر کعبے پہ لگا جھنڈا
اُس ذاتؐ کی آمد پر راہوں کو سجانا ہے

مدحِ شہِؐ خوباں سے عرفاںؔ کی زباں تر ہے
شاہوں کے قصائد نہ گفتارِ زمانہ ہے

The Issue of Human Cloning: A Review in Semitic Religions’ Context

Human cloning has emerged as a new and innovative technology in the reproductive and therapeutic science in the recent past. So far it has not been practiced over human beings but owing to its huge potential and possible scope, it has attracted the attention of not only the masses (particularly the infertile couples and LGBTQs etc) but the other stakeholders including the religious scholars from worlds’ prominent religions have given their views on this technology in order to guide their followers. This paper examines and reviews the religious points of view on human cloning. For this purpose, three Semitic religions in the world i-e Judaism, Christianity, and Islām have been examined. As far as Islam is concerned, this portion has been divided into two broad sections elaborating the Shī‘ah and Sunnī schools’ opinions. Being an innovative topic, the religious teachings do not address it directly hence the injunctions related to the reproduction are most relevant to it. Three Semitic religions have been examined from the perspective of admissibility or non-admissibility of human cloning, the rationale behind the verdict on human cloning and the possible solutions to the issues and problems faced by the followers in the case of acceptance or rejection of this biomedical technology. Most of the religions emphasize over adaptability of the natural mode of reproduction only, where male and female genders contribute to the reproductive cycle. The Semitic religions reject the reproductive cloning generally. The religious experts need to conduct more focused and updated research before coming to any conclusion about the permissibility or non-permissibility of this technique.

Multivariate Mutual Information for Audio Video Fusion

Information fusion is an essential part of distributed wireless sensor networks as well as perceptual user interfaces. Irrelevant and redundant data severely affect the performance of the information fusion framework. The work presented in this thesis addresses the problem of acceptability of data from multiple sources. A uni-modal information-theoretic framework for face recognition is first developed. Performance of the proposed method is compared with existing principal component analysis based face recognition algorithms. The uni-modal framework is extended to develop a multi-modal algorithm. The algorithm uses multivariate mutual information to validate the acceptability of data from two sources. Unlike the preceding algorithms, the framework does not require any preprocessing, such as automatic face recognition, etc. Moreover, it also does not condition any statistical modeling or feature extraction and learning algorithms to extract the maximum information regions. The various cases containing a single speaker as well as a group of speakers are analyzed. The applicability of the algorithm is tested by incorporating it with Haar like features of Voila and Jones for lip activity detection.
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