Jumbo Editorial Team
May 28, 2012 became a Red Letter day as the National Language Authority launched as many as five books at its headquarters in Islamabad. The books covered a wide academic spectrum from the importance and decay of the Urdu language to socio-political dynamics of Pakistan.
The books to be launched were Urdu as a Secondary Language by Dr Suleman Athar, Liberalism in Urdu Literature by Dr Riffat Iqbal, Dr Abdul Salam Khursheed by Dr Mohammad Shahzad, Urdu Novel and Decline of Human Nature by Bazgha Qandeel and Hewanat ki Alamti Haesiat by Saeed Ahmed.
The intellectuals present on the occasion expressed their concern over the decline in the number of people speaking native languages and dialects.
They pointed out that every year the world witnessed about 2,500 languages reach extinction as native speakers did not work for the continuation of their mother tongue from generation to generation adding that the fast-paced and homogenous technological world of today was not conducive to verbal and literary diversity.
Federal Secretary of National Heritage and Integration, Asif Ghafoor, pointed out that there were about 6,000 languages in the world out of which every year 2,500 vanish from the face of earth, emphasizing on the need to make sure that our local languages remained alive. He urged the literary persons to take steps to secure the local languages so that they would carry on.
Author Dr Suleman Athar said that in his book he had tried to convey the message that all the languages were very important and they should be protected.
Author Dr Mohammad Shahzad said he had chosen Dr Abdul Salam as the subject of his book because he had really done well in the field of education and journalism.
Author Riffat Iqbal said that he had discussed the liberalism of new era in his book and tried to relate it with the past.
Author Bazgha Qandeel said that she had tried to show the downfall of the human beings.
Dr Hanif Khalil of Quaid-i-Azam University while commenting on the book of Dr Suleman Athar said the local languages should be protected and the only way to protect them is that those languages should be introduced in the syllabus at provincial level.
He gave the example of Sindhi and said that it had become the language of courts and the official language of the province.
Manzar Naqvi while talking about the book of Riffat Iqbal said that the author had discussed different cultures and liberalism in them. In that book even freedom movements and their impacts had been discussed in detail, he added.
Dr Roshan Aara while talking about the book of Dr Mohammad Shahzad said, “Although, usually there is a difference between personality of author and his writing but the book about Dr Abdul Salam reflects his true self.”
Abid Sial while giving his expert opinion on the book of Bazgha Qandeel said that most of the quotes in the book had been taken from the Holy Quran.
Hameed Shahid while discussing about the book of Saeed Ahmed said the book showed the difference between human beings and animals besides telling the history of story-telling in the Indian Subcontinent.
IMMINENT THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
ReplyDeleteSir
Last but not the least is a universal peril towards which I want to bring your kind attention; that is the imminent threat of Nuclear War to devastate this beautiful universe of ours. The circumstances reveal now that to mankind is left no alternative but either to vanish under the hails of atomic bombs suddenly, or to perish slowly, lingeringly and painfully under the stings of the radiation of atomic energy. For your kind information Sir , all the conceptions , causes and characteristics of the appearance of atomic bombs and also remedial measures to be taken to save this mankind and world from the nuclear doomsday, have been revealed in the QURAN fourteen hundred years ago just in 36 words of chapter ALHOMAZA -(104).
I know a learned Scholar who is well-versed in this specific topic. He has lead anonymous life and have forty years of long and continuous research on this topic of the Quran. He has written 14-Volumes , all in English , to save this world from nuclear doomsday in the light of this warning and prophecy of the Quran about atomic hell. But unfortunately this unfortunate scholar was lacking financial resources to publish this remarkable work of Quran in Europe to warn the people about the hazards of atomic energy. I think, being Muslims and the followers of the Quran, this responsibility lies on our shoulders to publish in Europe, this prophecy, warning and remedies given by the Quran. We should enter 21st century with this message and warning of the Quran about atomic hell, in our hands, not necessarily on political grounds but on social, literary and religious grounds. Publishing this missionary series named as the “GABRIEL’S EXTINGUISHING THE ATOMIC-HELL SERIES” of 14-volumes about 3000 pages , in Europe, we can make the people of atomic powers aware about the hazards of atomic bombs.
He claimed that he had been assigned this great mission of saving mankind from nuclear doomsday with the help of this warning and prophecy of the Quran , by HAZRAT IBRAHEEM alaihis salam in 1942 near BAGHDAD SHARIF. I am sure that you will certainly bestow upon this great spiritual personality some minutes from your precious time to hear the explanation of this warning of the Quran with your ears. It will be interesting for you that in 1963, this person, in a debate with MISS ANNE MARIE SCHIMEL (a well-known German scholar) at Lahore, made her admit this truth of the same prophecy of the Quran. Then she turned to the teachings of Islam, Iqbal and mysticism. She had at that time said that she should be buried in the grave-yard of MACKLY in Sind which shows that at heart she has become Muslim.
I will be anxiously waiting for your kind reply in this concern from every body . May God help us in our mission to lead the Pakistan and Pakistanis on the right path towards their destination.
Yours Sincerely,
Khalid Mehmood Malik,
Malakabad, Nawababad Wah Cantt Distt Rawapindi
Pakistan
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