Archive for 'Faith and Religion'

Why I Accepted Islam

Posted on01. Apr, 2011 by .

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By Michael Wolfe:
Most of the educated Westerners I knew around this time regarded any strong religious climate with suspicion. They classified religion as political manipulation, or they dismissed it as a medieval concept, projecting upon it notions from their European past.

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WHEN I SAY I AM A MUSLIM!

Posted on20. Mar, 2011 by .

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By Col Bakhtiar Hakeem:
I want to conclude here. The significance of any right up does not lie in its length. Making things simple may not be easy, or spectacular; for this would not be an achievement for a majority. Can these odd six hundred words ask the prudent reader to review being a ‘Muslim’, the implications this identity has, or find a new definition of the religion of Islam?

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Secularism: Legitimizing the Illegitimate

Posted on19. Feb, 2011 by .

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By Tarik Jan:
In the last leg of the Umayyad when the zanadiqah (atheists and secular) mounted their assault on the moral core of the Muslim society by spreading licentious living, free sex, liquor, gambling and above all atheism, the Abbasid caliphs al-Mahdi and al-Mansur decided to crush them. They not only killed them but also engaged eminent scholars to write books for the eradication of the then secular threat.

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Quantum Note: The Qur’an in the Contemporary World

Posted on07. Jan, 2011 by .

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By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal:
Despite this sociological and linguistic diversity, however, Islam and Islamic civilization could only survive insofar as the Noble Qur’an preserved its centrality and they did survive and, in fact, flourished. Someone in Sumatra hearing a verse of the Qur’an would weep as much as someone in Fez or Cairo, and their physical location and the language they first grew up in were irrelevant to their piety.

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JESUS IN ISLAM

Posted on25. Dec, 2010 by .

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By Anwar Ul Haque:
It is the time to follow the path of Jesus and his mother who were true Muslims like Moses, Aaron (Haroon) and Ibrahim (Abraham).Their religion was Islam. We as Muslims have no discrimination against any of them. We love all of them, we respect all and do not believe in lip service. We love then and we follow them. Muhammad (PBUH) is the final and the last prophet and we see no difference between his teaching and that of earlier prophets. Quran is the final and eternally preserved book in its original language.

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Hussain is our alls

Posted on19. Dec, 2010 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
A staunch Hindu associate, with impeccable personal integrity and genuine intensions, has been trying with humble modesty for years to grasp the moral, spiritual and worldly significance of the tragedy of Karbala. But he has failed in understanding the entire sociology and religious-cultural conceptualization of the over 1300 year old historical episode. When the subject came up again for an intellectual discourse at the start of the month of Muharram ten days ago, I put it straight to him: Hinduism is a religious doctrine that is based on a strict caste system.

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Beards and Hijabs—yet again!

Posted on19. Nov, 2010 by .

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Dr Muzaffar Iqbal:
In beards and hijabs, there is nothing to be ashamed of; in them one finds an outward expression of one’s religious affiliation and one’s commitment to a way of life anchored in a revealed text and in the tradition of the Noble Messenger upon him blessings and peace.

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Hope for Muslims circa 1431

Posted on12. Nov, 2010 by .

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By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal:
These young Albanians, who have rediscovered the beauty of their religion, are unlike young men and women one finds in the traditional lands of Islam. These are assertive, serious, pious men and women who know what they believe and why they believe.

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Islam’s New Faces Part – II

Posted on29. Oct, 2010 by .

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By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal:
And when the political leadership—a Tony Blair, an Angela Merkel—also suffers from the same disease, it becomes plausible that this leadership will try to enact laws, which will violate even the most basic human rights, in order to “protect” what it deems to be “their way of life”, as opposed to Muslims’ way of life.

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Islam’s New Faces

Posted on22. Oct, 2010 by .

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By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal
There has never been so many faces of Islam; there has never been so many Muslims in the world, and there has never been such a confusion about matters of faith both within the community of believers and outside. This change has been brought about by a number of rapid historical reconstructions of the Ummah, the body of believers that is joined by a common thread—the Book.

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