Epigraph:
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money for love of Him, on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives; and who observes Prayer and pays the Zakat; and those who fulfill their promise when they have made one, and the patient in poverty and afflictions and the steadfast in time of war; it is these who have proved truthful and it is these who are the God-fearing. (Al Quran 2:178)
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A letter to an unborn child
Source: Dawn Author: Vaqar Ahmed Unfortunately, I will not be celebrating your birth since I have already attended your funeral. I would never know how much pain you felt when…
Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of…
No Place for ‘Honour Killing’ in Islam -Ahmadiyya Muslim Point of View
PR News Wire: The gruesome murder of 25-year old pregnant Farzana Parveen on 27th May in Pakistan, by some 20 of her own close relations, including her two brothers and…
eDigest: U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Blasphemy Laws and Discrimination in Pakistan Must Go
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has…
Windsurfing for four days from Cuba to a new life in US
Source: BBC 2 June 2014 Last updated at 00:25 BST For decades, Cubans fleeing their island home in search of a new life in the US have crossed the shark-infested waters…
Learning second language ‘slows brain ageing’
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Whose Sharia Is It?
Huff Post: by Kecia Ali — Whose sharia is this? It is certainly not mine. I cannot believe that it is God’s. It has been a lousy month for Islamic…
Does marriage makes a man dizzy?
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Iran must deliver
Story Summary Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned neighbors Monday of the “high price” they would pay for continuing to support Sunni extremists in Syria. The threat posed by…
Umrah pilgrims flock to Madinah’s historical sites
MADINAH: YUSUF MUHAMMAD Published — Tuesday 3 June 2014 Thousands of Umrah pilgrims are flocking to Madinah these days to visit the Prophet’s Mosque, other houses of worship, and the…
Imam Shafie: An outstanding scholar of fiqh
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 30 May 2014 The Shafie school of thought is the second largest followed by Muslims worldwide. Muhammad Al-Shafie born in Gaza, Palestine is…
Allah, not chance, created the universe
Harun Yahya ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 30 May 2014 The universe was created in a moment by Almighty Allah telling it “Be!” Created in such a short time, the universe…
Broken consciences: The Pakistani woman
The Express Tribune: by Asad Rahim Khan — It’s not stoning to death. Not exactly, if we’re to follow the police’s line. A woman wasn’t stoned to death in broad…
Australia Documentary Defends Islam
ABNA — The documentary offered a window to many Australian Muslims to share their own experiences of facing discrimination. A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of…
UN Rights Experts Urge Pakistan To Protect Ahmadiyya Muslim Minorities
Rttnews.com: Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions have called on Pakistan to adopt urgent measures to stop faith-based killings and ensure the security…
The Human Rights Abuses Must Stop – It’s Time for Love For All and Hatred For None
Huff Post: The past few weeks have unveiled some horrific stories of human rights abuse. The world was first shocked by the death sentence handed to Meriam Ibrahim, the then…
Pakistan Army: All Together but not Quite
By Brig® Mehboob Qadir | Email: clay.potter@hotmail.com Armies are peculiar reflections of their national history, culture and mother society. Within each army there are sub structures which correspond to the functional…
Viewpoint: Why Arab Spring has not delivered real democracy
On the face of it, one might conclude that democracy is thriving in the Arab world. On Tuesday millions of Syrians are voting in presidential elections. Egyptians have just chosen…
Preacher at Ian Paisley’s former church denounces Islam as a ‘wicked religion’
Just a week after a scandal was sparked by a preacher slating Islam as “satanic”, a second preacher has launched a broadside against the faith. The minister at Lord Bannside’s…
Don’t blame Islam for Meriam’s awful fate
Source: The Telegraph By Rob Crilly, who is Pakistan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. Before that he spent five years writing about Africa for The Times, The Irish Times, The…
Abbas swears in Palestinian unity government
Source: Yahoo News RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a Palestinian unity government Monday, taking a major step toward ending a crippling split with his Hamas…
Editorial: Loudest Voice Not Always the Right One
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UN Rights Experts Urge Pakistan To Protect Ahmadiyya Muslim Minorities
rrtnews: Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions have called on Pakistan to adopt urgent measures to stop faith-based killings and ensure the security…
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