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مولانا عبدالرحمن پروازؔ اصلاحی

آہ ! مولانا عبدالرحمن پروازؔ اصلاحی
’’مولانا عبدالرحمن پرواز مرحوم دارالمصنفین آئے اورتقریباً ساڑھے تین سال کے بعد یہاں کے لوگوں کے دلوں میں اپنی سیرت کی نیکی اور پاکیزگی، اخلاق کی طہارت و شرافت کی جوت جگا کر اچانک دائمی جدائی اختیار کرلی، وہ ہم لوگوں کے درمیان آکر بیٹھتے تو ان کے خوبصورت چہرے سے عیاں ہوتا کہ لوگوں کی دلآزاری اور ایذارسانی کیا بلکہ ان کی دل شکنی کا دسوسہ بھی ان کے دل میں پیدا نہ ہوتا ہوگا، ان کی نورانی داڑھی سے ان کا علم و فضل ظاہر ہوتا رہتا تھا، انھوں نے راہ طریقت کے ایک سچے سالک کی طرح اس دنیا میں باہمہ و بے ہمہ کا مسلک اختیار کر کے پوری زندگی گذار دی، ان کا بڑا وصف یہ رہا کہ وہ اپنے نفس کو دبا کر بلکہ اپنے اوپر تکلیف اٹھا کر اپنے گھر والوں اور ملنے جلنے والوں کو آرام پہنچانے ہی میں اپنی راحت و مسرت محسوس کرتے تھے، انھوں نے ممبئی کے قیام میں مخدوم علی مہائمی اور مفتی صدر الدین آزردہ کے نام سے دو کتابیں لکھی، جو علمی حلقوں میں بڑے شوق سے پڑھی گئیں، وہ دارالمصنفین آئے تو انھوں نے خود مفسرین ہند پر ایک کتاب لکھنے کی خوہش ظاہر کی، خیال تھا کہ یہ کتاب تیار ہوگی تو ان کی مذکورۂ بالا دونوں کتابوں کی طرح علمی حلقے میں شوق سے پڑھی جائے گی، مگر مصلحت خداوندی سے یہ ادھوری رہ گئی، ان کی اچانک وفات سے یہاں جو سوگواری اور غمناکی کی فضا پیداہوئی ہے، اس سے یہ خاکسار متاثر ہوکر ان پر خود مضمون لکھنا چاہتا تھا، لیکن مولوی ضیاء الدین اصلاحی ان کے ہم وطن ہیں اور ایک ہی درسگاہ کے پڑھے ہوئے ہیں یہ ان کی زندگی سے بہت قریب تر رہے، اس لیے خیال ہوا کہ...

Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilization

Colonialism has impacted on Islamic Law as well as Islamic civilization. Islam has a dissonant relationship with modernity in that it agrees with central aspects of this epochal phenomenon and parts ways with others. The compatibility issues were raised by the Muslim thinkers. Many Muslim scholars have contributed to give an original understanding of message of Islam detached from sectarian influences. Traditions are considered to be the vehicle for the transference of factors to modernity with a strong role in determining power and culture of a civilization. Thus, they pave the way for the power tools of a civilization. The theories of Muslim scholars from Asia and Egypt are discussed to elaborate the Muslim understanding of facing the challenges of modernity. The contemporary scholars’ views are also added with an analysis of their observation on compatibility of Islam with modern era challenges and the criticism on it due to their modernity conception.

Online Urdu Character Recognition in Unconstrained Environment

Computer, the humongous giant of technology, has brought innovative changes in every aspect of life, especially in applications imitating humans. Currently, it is used in every field of life to facilitate human endeavor. One such application is character recognition. Character recognition is an important offshoot of pattern recognition problems. It imitates a human’s ability to read, using a machine. It has been a field of intensive, if exotic, research since the early days of the computer. This task becomes more complex and demanding in case of handwritten and cursive text. Arabic script-based languages, which are used by almost a quarter of the world’s population [Belaid et. al, 2010], are cursive, rich in diacritical marks and variety of writing styles present a challenging task for the researchers. Urdu is an Arabic script based languages however the Urdu character set is the superset of all Arabic script-based languages. Character recognition has been performed either through segmentation free or segmentation based approaches. There are numerous issues with a segmentation free approach, and it is very difficult to train using a large dataset. On the other hand in Urdu, a segmentation based approach has a large overhead and has less accuracy for cursive script as compared to segmentation free methods. In terms of classification, this thesis presents two approaches for Urdu character recognition: segmentation free method based on a hybrid approach (HMM and fuzzy logic), and bio-inspired character recognition system that uses fuzzy logics. Fuzzy is used as inner and outer shells for preprocessing and post processing of HMM. Biologically inspired multilayered fuzzy rules based system has been presented. Using the human visual concept, a layered approach has been suggested where the diacritical marks are separated from the ghost characters and mapped onto the primary ligature in the final layer. The proposed technique also caters to Multilanguage character recognition system for all Arabic script-based languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi etc. The presented multilayered bio-inspired approach recognizes the ligature by extracting the features and combining them to find new premises in a bottom up fashion and it provided accuracy of 87.4%.
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