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عبدالرحمن اطہر سلیمیؔ

عبدالرحمن اطہر سلیمیؔ(۱۹۴۲ء۔۱۹۹۴ء) سلیمیؔ تخلص کیا کرتے تھے۔ آپ سیالکوٹ میں پیدا ہوئے۔ ۱۹۸۵ء میں گورنمنٹ ڈگری کالج ناروال میں لیکچرار کی حیثیت سے آ پ کی تعیناتی ہوئی۔ پھر گورنمنٹ مرے کالج سیالکوٹ میں تبادلہ ہوا۔ پھر ۱۹۸۸ء میں جناح اسلامیہ کالج سیالکوٹ میں تبدیل کر دئیے گئے۔ (۹۷۷) اطہر سلیمی ؔ اپنا شعری کلام اپنی زندگی میں شائع نہیں کروا سکے۔ البتہ ان کے کلام کے مسودے ان کے ورثا کے پاس موجود ہیں۔ ایک مسودہ نعتوں پر مشتمل ہے جس کا نام حمٰ ہے اسے سلیمیؔ کے بیٹے شمیل اجود نے ترتیب دیا ہے۔

اطہر سلیمیؔ بنیادی طورپر غزل گو شاعر ہیں لیکن انھوں نے نظم بھی لکھی ہے۔ وہ غزل میں روایت اور جدیدیت کو ساتھ لے کر چلتے ہیں۔ اطہرلفظ کے حسن اور اس کے استعمال سے باخبر ہیں۔ان کی ڈکشن ان کی غزل کو جدید شاعری میں شامل کرتی ہے۔ آپ نے اپنی شاعری میں خوبصورت تتلیوں، جگنوؤں ،چناروں ،آنگنوں ،چاندنی اور رنگوں کا ـذکر کیا ہے۔ اس طرح ان کی غزل فکری نکھار کے ساتھ لفظیاتی فن سے سجی ہوئی ہے۔ اس حوالے سے چند اشعار ملاحظہ ہوں:

دھوئیں میں ڈوبے ہیں پھول تارے چراغ جگنو چنار کیسے

 

نئی رتوں کے اُڑن کھٹولوں پہ آرہے ہیں سوار کیسے

 

تہوں کی کالی چٹائیوں پہ سسکتی لہروں کو کیا خبر ہے

 

کیے ہیں تتلی نے چاندنی میں کنول سے قول و قرار کیسے

(۹۷۸)

_اطہر اپنی شاعری میں منظر نگاری بھی کرتے ہیں۔مناظر کے علاوہ وہ انسان کے گردو نواح میں پائی جانے والی پریشانیوں ،دکھوں ا ور ظلم و ستم کی لفظوں سے تصویر کشی کرتے ہیں۔ اطہر کی شاعری میں ہمیں گہرا سماجی...

Revival of Complementary and Alternative Herbal Medicines

Herbal medicines, complementary or alternative medicines is a wide term for the therapies that are not part of standard care but it has many theories regarding efficacy based on personal experiences, history and common knowledge. It has long been used since ancient times since the beginning of human civilization. Its use had caught much attention in the early 1800s, with the development in the science of chemistry, a new era in pharmacotherapeutics and the use of active chemical ingredients in plants which were known to produce favorable therapeutic effects, were explored, active compounds were extracted, purified and their structure was revealed. This advancement paved the way towards modern pharmaceutical therapy. The modern drugs are based on these herbal medicines, after extracting the active and pure chemical compounds. Pharmacokinetics and physicochemical properties of the active ingredients was explored. It lead to the better understanding of efficacy and safety profile of these drugs and first choice for treatment of various diseases. At the same time, the herbal medicines were considered as secondarily important. After approximately two centuries, the use of herbal medicines have seen a revival globally both in developing as well as developed countries. In the past few years, the practice of using herbal medicines as an alternative and complementary health medicine has gained more importance. Herbal medicines are common for treatment of various ailments including cancer, digestive disorders, pain related disorders, neuropathic ailments and cardiac arrhythmias etc. Even it has been used by pregnant females and mostly perceived as safe. Its use has gained more attraction due to its ‘natural’ approach and lesser side effects. Their use if often overlooked but physicians should pay attention to these medicines. There is lack of familiarity, standardization of the drug components, unproven therapeutic effects in various diseases, unexplored toxicology, pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions, and compatibility in patients with varying medical, genetic and demographic history. There are serious concerns regarding the safety, efficacy and quality of herbal products and nutraceuticals. Accidental contamination and deliberate adulteration are assumed to be the main cause of the side effects. Much of the herbal medical knowledge is scattered in different regions of the world and mostly available at family, community and local level and mostly in any native languages. There is need of coherent sources, knowledge, and exploration of these medicines across the world. The herbal medicine has varying diversity in different geological regions and they should be investigated. There should be a regional or national body to control and approve the herbal medicines. Proper documentations on these medicines and food supplements should also be done.

Teaching Industrial Chemistry Concepts, Through Activity Theory Approach for Relevance at Secondary School in Karachi

This study examined how Chemistry as a subject could be made more relevant to real world of the learners. The motivation for the study was that chemistry has been seen as an unpopular and irrelevant subject in the eyes of many school students. This is, basically, due to the complications generated by Chemistry courses and textbooks in Pakistani context that are, only in name, designed to develop students' conceptual understanding of the subject. The courses require students to learn a large volume of non-contextual scientific vocabulary and process skills, without much appreciation of, how they will apply acquired knowledge in their personal or future professional lives. The society demands to see the products of Chemistry education beyond scores and grades in the daily life of students. As a result, students are often demotivated to succeed in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to present Chemistry as a relevant subject to the student's person, profession and society. The only way to create relevance between Chemistry and contextual needs was through developing relevant curriculum with contextual needs and teaching students in such a way that they could transfer scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired in their daily life practice. This study is an action research to improve upon teaching concepts of industrial Chemistry at grade IX (age 14-15 years) through activity theory (AT) approach in one of private schools of Karachi. Action research methodology is based on Aalsvoort (2004) activity theory model. The study is carried out in three cycles: each cycle consists of planning, action, operations, and reflection on products. Data are collected through interview tool, classroom observations, reflections and developing relevant curriculum with activity theory approach, stimulating the environment for actions and operations through video clips and factory model and reflecting on the results and products. Various teaching strategies and classroom organizations were used to promote students' conceptual understanding and motivation towards learning concepts of industrial Chemistry. The result of this study confirms lack of curriculum relevancy especially in contents that are usually drowned in a sea of dull and abstract in which even good students/swimmers may lose sight of the underpinning Chemistry concepts. Furthermore, this study found activity theory integrated model for relevancy of teaching concepts of industrial chemistry.
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