Qur’an lesson for today: 265. Commandment to yield not to any mean swearer
265. Commandment to yield not to any mean swearer [68:11] And yield not to any mean swearer, [68:12] Backbiter, one who goes about slandering,
The Muslim Times’ collection about Hijab
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent […]
Too little too late …
The international coalition that was assembled to confront ISIS has certainly made its mark, but as an example of tragi-comedy. Following weeks of airstrikes and related anti-jihadist efforts in Iraq and Syria, ISIS militants are moving steadily closer to Baghdad, and to the Syrian-Turkish border in Ain al-Arab. Nearly 200,000 […]
Pakistan’s Original Sin
THE SOUTH ASIA CHANNEL Pakistan’s Original Sin BY USMAN AHMAD OCTOBER 13, 2014 The fields of Hampshire are usually associated with blazing crops of rapeseed and fragrant lavender. But on the final weekend of August, over 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world converged on Oakland Farm in East […]
India: Eid Milan & Peace Symposium Organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hyderabad – A Report
On the evening of 11th October 2014, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hyderabad organised Eid Millan and Peace Symposium at The Marigold (Green Park) Hotel. The event included about 200 members from […]
Khamenei blames United States, ‘wicked’ Britain, for creating Islamic State
By Michelle Moghtader | Reuters – Mon, Oct 13, 2014 DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran‘s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday blamed the United States and the “wicked” British government for creating the Islamic State in his first speech since undergoing prostate surgery last month. The sharp remarks were a reminder of Iranian suspicions […]
Why Emperor Akbar haunts Hindutva
Dawn: IT was Dussehra the other day, and now it will be Diwali. Both occasions, like other Hindu festivals, are celebrated in different ways in different regions of India and are also known by different names. Dussehra in north India more or less coincides with Durga Puja in Bengal. Many […]
Pakistani Women: Nobel, Oscar, Emmy and what not?
pakteahouse: Malik Malala Yousufzai was given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 on her championing the cause of Children’s right for education, especially for girls. This is the young girl who was brave enough to ask for her right of education despite the ban from Taliban in Swat on Girls’ […]
Pakistan: Hilarious Urdu Bill Boards
Funny Signboards (in Urdu)……….. you won’t stop laughing June 10, 2012 by Editor 119 Comments ‘Funny signboards in Urdu’ is a large collection of carefully selected funny signboards. These extremely funny signboards in Urdu depict a true picture of Pakistan in a humorous way. It will hopefully provide good enjoyment to the fun […]
The Nobel winner Pakistan won’t celebrate
Source: The Hindustan Times, Courtesy of Basharat Ahmed, Banglore, India Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan TimesLondon, October 11, 2014 The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai has been officially welcomed in […]
Anti-IS war being led by a woman
BEIRUT: A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State militants in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani, a monitoring group and activists said Sunday. “Mayssa Abdo, known […]
The Nobel winner Pakistan won’t celebrate
Hindustan Times: The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai has been officially welcomed in Pakistan, but there is one Pakistani Nobel Prize winner the country continues to ignore and scorn: Abdus Salam, an Ahmadiya Muslim, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. The Ahmadiya community reportedly […]
Both Pakistan’s Nobel winners are united by the tragedy of forced exile
Scroll In: There is no escaping the irony that the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 has gone jointly to two child rights advocates from Pakistan and India – 17-year old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year old Kailash Satyarthi – while the armies of their countries trade bullets and kill innocents across […]
Malaysia: “Islamic conservatism spells bad news for Muslims” says banned Indonesian scholar
Source: themalaymailonline.com He has spoken out against the religious edicts issued by Indonesia’s top Islamic council of clerics, including a prohibition for Muslims to offer Christmas greetings to Christians, and his […]
A letter from Dr Abdus Salam to Malala
Dawn.com: by Faraz Talat — You were mocked and alienated by your countrymen, when you did nothing wrong. I know something of that. Disclaimer: the blog post below is an imagining of what Dr Abdus Salam would convey to Malala today Dear Malala, Despite all that occurred, I’d always lugged […]
SWISS PRESS REVIEW: Is education the answer? Swiss look to Nobel winners
OCT 11, 2014 – 13:30 Newspapers in Switzerland took their lead from Friday’s announcement of the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi, […]
Neither with the Islamophobes, Nor with the Islamists or the Islamomaniacs
The Muslim Times Promoting Hijab rather than Burqa after Boris Johnson’s ‘Burqa Storm’ Boris Johnson, a ‘Burqa Storm’ and Perhaps Some Populist Calculations Source: The New York Time By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura […]
Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation
Editorial Reviews of this book From Publishers Weekly Conventional wisdom says that Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot get along and have never gotten along; the Crusades, the Inquisition and September […]
Arafat cemetery opens to relatives of deceased Hajis
Some pilgrims returned to Arafat on Wednesday to visit their loved ones who died during the Haj over the past few years. The undated cemetery is only open one day […]