Civilians are dying, Campaigners are being kidnapped
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The world cannot turn a blind eye to America’s drone attacks in Pakistan – Why was Karim Khan prevented from speaking out against drone warfare? […]
Why Salafist-takfiris should worry us
By Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) Several months ago when I wrote about the looming danger of the growing strength of Salafist-takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria, I focused on the threats that thousands of their fighters, bombers and terrorists posed to those countries and also to […]
Halima: The foster mother of Prophet Muhammad
Halima: The foster mother of Prophet Muhammad The place where once Halima Saadia’s house existed. Abu Tariq Hijazi Islam develops cohesion in society for the general benefit of the mankind. It promotes strong bonds between parents and the children. It expands relationship to even the wet nurses, serving the […]
Very Unfortunate but Very Much True, Pakistan a Lost Cause?
Source: Guardianlv.com via Wasim Sr. It is very unfortunate but very much true that Pakistan is a lost cause. On 14, August 1947 at the stroke of mid-night , a new independent state appeared on the map of the world. Pakistan with meager resources and defunct treasury did not have […]
Is Islam better practiced in the West?
Express Tribune: by Faiza Iqbal — Most people are very quick to point out the flaws and imperfections of Western lifestyle, citing promiscuity, free flowing alcohol, homosexuality, gay marriage and a free mixing of sexes as the main ingredients in its destruction and thus its aberration from Islam. However, I personally […]
Freedom of expression in India
ET: Another book has been bullied into suppression in India, this time, Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An alternative history. Though it is a collection of 25 essays, Doniger’s is not a casual work. It comes from decades of immersion in the subject. She is a scholar of high calibre focused on […]
Bilawal slams efforts of pushing Pakistan back to ‘stone-age’
Credit: TheExpressTribune THATTA: Patron in chief of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday accused the Taliban of trying to drag the Pakistan back to the “stone-age.” Addressing a gathering in Makli Stadium during […]
Syria: The Chaos of War
Syria: The Chaos of War Damascus Will the walls fall? By Anne Barnard Photograph by Andrea Bruce In the rectangular courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, the heart of Old Damascus, women swathed in black sit and chat on the cream-colored stone floor, polished smooth by the comings and goings of […]
Inside story of govt-TTP talks
Source: The International News By Hamid Mir Saturday, February 15, 2014 ISLAMABAD: It was for the first time that a Taliban leader participated in the government-TTP negotiations on Friday through a phone call and promised that the Taliban will seriously consider a ceasefire. But sources in the government committee fear that […]
Pray to thy Lord, and offer sacrifice
[108:3] So pray to thy Lord, and offer sacrifice. [46:16] And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him and his weaning takes thirty months, till, when he attains his full maturity […]
Mediator Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people after negotiations end with impasse on issue of political transition.
SOURCE: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/syria-peace-talks-end-deadlock-2014215112455622202.html A Syrian activist group says the death toll in Syria’s three-year-old civil war has reached 140,000 [Reuters] Syria’s government and opposition have agreed on an agenda for a third round of peace talks in Geneva, but there has been no date set for the resumption of negotiations, […]
Women investments in Kingdom exceed SR60 billion
RIYADH: SHARIF M. TAHA Published — Saturday 15 February 2014 Saudi businesswomen retain SR100 billion in savings, or 75 percent of total bank savings Kingdomwide, a Saudi woman speaker […]
Power struggles in Muslim States: Prayer – need of the hour.
Source: lankaweb.com | by A. Abdul Aziz A number of Muslim states are facing varying degrees of insurgencies and violent attacks against state institutions, officials and ordinary people. The leading examples are Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Somalia. The Iraq government faces a militant challenge in Ambar Province where extremist and […]
Indonesia: New CSW report warns of growing religious intolerance
Source: indcatholicnews.com CSW’s new report on Indonesia, which will be launched on 25 February in the UK Parliament, warns that ‘Religious intolerance is no longer confined to areas such as West […]
Polygamy in Pakistan
Dailytimes: If husbands are able to care for them rather equally — financially as well as emotionally — and the first wife does agree to the second wife, then why do some people make such a fuss about it? The interpretation of the sacred Quran varies quite significantly within the Muslim […]
Rumi’s Love Quotes Capture The Sufi Mystic’s Divine Passion
By Yasmine Hafiz When it comes to searingly passionate poetry, 13th-century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi has no equal. The Sufi mystic’s declarations of love speak across the centuries to strike […]
Youth in Islam — culture, faith and generation gap
by Khalid Baig, ARABNEWS.com Youth is a period of high energy and great enthusiasm, coupled with an air of invincibility and perpetuity. Like the driver of a fast car, […]
39. Be grateful
39. Be grateful [34:14] …….. ‘Work ye, O House of David gratefully;’ but few of My servants are grateful. [16:79] And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers while you knew nothing, and gave you ears and eyes and hearts, that you might be grateful. [34:16] There was indeed a […]
40. Glorify thy Lord, with His praise, and seek forgiveness of Him
40. Glorify thy Lord, with His praise, and seek forgiveness of Him [110:4] Glorify thy Lord, with His praise, and seek forgiveness of Him. Surely He is Oft-Returning with compassion. [29:64] And if thou ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky and therewith gives life to the earth after its death?’, they will surely say, […]
Mass evacuation in Indonesia as Java volcano erupts
Source: BBC Two people have been killed after their home collapsed from the weight of volcanic ash as Alice Budisatrijo reports. Continue reading the main story and watch a video […]