He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returned? (Al Quran 3:84) Lead article is by Ijaz A. Rauf, Ph.D. from Canada. Email: irauf@solargridenergy.ca Homosexuality: Nature or Choice? […]
On Thursday 16th of October 2014 hundreds of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia welcomed their newly appointed Amir (National President) and missionary in-charge, Imam Inam-ul-Haq Kauser, at ‘Bait-ul-Huda’ […]
Epigraph: An apple cannot be a rock and a monkey at the same time. Likewise, a man or a dove cannot be God, simultaneously. Concept of God of Islam and […]
Source: New York Times OCT. 24, 2014 By Pankaj Mishra, who is the author of “From the Ruins of Empire,” among other books. India, V.S. Naipaul declared in 1976, is “a wounded […]
Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After more than eleven years of fighting, thousands of American casualties and more than half a million Iraqi […]
Source: Review of Religions, September 2014 Collected from the writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) The founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. In 1891, he […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
(RNS) Responding to a real or perceived gap between science and faith, 10 U.S. seminaries will receive a combined $1.5 million in grants to include science in their curricula, the […]
Source: New York Times By Hanna Kozlowska October 21, 2014 Some say that when the deadly Ebola virus traveled from West Africa to the United States, it brought out worrying […]
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed […]
By Rebecca Morelle, Science Correspondent, BBC News Scientists believe they have discovered the origin of copulation. An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dickiis the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in […]
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:21/22) Written […]
Epigraph: And good and evil are not alike. Repel evil with kindness. And lo, he between whom and thyself was enmity will become as though he were a warm friend. (Al Quran 41:35) And […]
Source: The Huffington Post Many critics of the Islamic State — President Obama included — have argued that the militant group cannot claim to be Muslim in the way it has wreaked havoc on Iraq and Syria. Religion scholar Reza Aslan takes issue with this argument. Aslan joined HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill to discuss […]
By Dan Vergano National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 15, 2013 War and occupation directly and indirectly claimed the lives of about a half-million Iraqis from 2003 to 2011, according to a […]
Source: BBC Critics of the rule said women wearing niqabs or burkas were not an additional security threat Related Stories Australia PM urges burka ban rethink Australia’s home-grown terror threat […]
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:22) Written […]