Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise By Azhar Ahmed Hussain: a Juris Doctor candidate at Hofstra University School of Law. Islamic law and western countries have a unique relationship that spans nearly 900 years, a relationship that, due to misconception and manufactured hysteria, is undergoing an era of tension. Many of […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We can read John Makdisi’s magnum opus by ordering the North Carlina Law Review article from a Library or […]
Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise By Lubna Roohi Malik The Holy Qur’an lays out three basic states of man. These three states separate man from animals and spiritual men from moral men. These three states are: the natural state, the moral state, and the spiritual state. Man begins in the […]
Source: Dawn Author: Faiza Mirza Amidst the clouds of political and economic turmoil looming over Pakistan, including fiascoes as big as “memogate scandal” and “President Zardari’s departure to UAE”, Pakistanis, […]
Source: Qantara The environmental organization Friends of the Earth Middle East is planning to set up a peace park on the banks of the River Jordan in the hope of […]
Source: The Local A tech expert has figured out a way that hackers could take control of mobile phones and make calls or send out unlimited numbers of text messages. More here…
This year was the hottest in France since the start of the 20th century, Meteo France said on Tuesday, with average national temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the norm. […]
Metal theft has reached “epidemic” proportions in Britain with more than 1,000 offences taking place every week, according to official figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph. The number of […]
CTV: A study presented earlier this year by Canadian researchers has created a bit of a buzz in the fertility world. The team reported that a supplement found in most […]
The International Association of Ahmadi Architects and Engineers (IAAAE) is working to provide water and sustainable power to the poor regions of Africa. IAAAE has worked with world renowned organisations such as Water Aid and has helped over 600,000 people across Africa. IAAAE has initiated a new project across five […]
Albert Einstein said, “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” “I do not feel […]
A speech by Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah, Vice President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA at annual gathering of the community, West Coast USA Jalsa 2011. To watch other speeches in this […]
Confidence among U.S. consumers rose in December to the highest level in eight months as an improving job market helped regain all the ground lost following the mid-year government budget battle and credit-rating downgrade. The Conference Board’s index increased to 64.5, exceeding all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey and […]
Indispensable Israeli inventions are being displayed and demonstrated at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem. Israel’s top inventions highlighted at the exhibition include: Netafim smart drip micro-irrigation, Ormat geothermal power […]
I read an opinion article published recently in Jakarta Globe and was compelled to write this blog in response to the survey that showed only 19 percent of respondents believed […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Faisal Shakeel Published: December 27, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, while hearing the Memogate case on Tuesday, said that the […]
By Zia H Shah MD If one tries to genuinely understand or conceptualize the dual or hybrid nature of Jesus rationally, one is likely to be led to the truth, away from Trinitarian faith to Unitarianism, be it Christianity, Judaism or Islam. Jesus is a man and God the father […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Abstract In logical terms Jesus cannot be man and God at the same time. Like a man cannot […]
Source: NY Times. Hulton Archive/Getty Images A Victorian family circa 1860. If you’re like many Americans, you have just spent a few days in close quarters with your parents, grandchildren, siblings, etc. You’re ready to go home, or ready for them to go home. But for a growing number of […]