195. The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider [29:42] The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider, who makes for herself a house; and surely the frailest of all houses is […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times By the Grace of Allah, I joined Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, from a Sunni family, in 1984, while I was […]
Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The sky was as azure as the sea and the trees never looked so verdant. Summer was just around the corner, […]
ET: LAHORE: Last week an elderly woman and her two minor grand daughters were burnt alive in Gujranwala by a charged mob. A week of silence has passed since then. No suo motu notice of the mob attack was taken, no joint investigation team was formed to investigate the incident, no […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — Given that religious scholars are nothing but shopkeepers of religiosity whose livelihood depends on such hatemongering, it is hardly surprising that Ashrafi resorts to such incitement to violence. The deadly attack on Ahmedis, killing one unborn child, two little girls and one old grandmother, […]
Source: The International News Islamabad diary By Ayaz AmirPakistani democracy has done things to itself which it now finds impossible to get rid of. We can take it as an axiom […]
BEIJING – The murder of a state-backed imam in China’s Xinjiang region underscores an escalation in 18 months of violence and could be part of a bid by extremists to persuade moderate Muslim Uighurs to turn against Beijing’s controlled current of Islam. The targeting of Uighur officials or religious leaders has […]
Source: Daily Times By Zara Ahmad, July 29, 2014 Do we take morbid pride in calling ourselves Muslims and butchering the innocent people of our own country in the name of religion? Who gave us the authority to play God? Is it just illiteracy or did our hearts really turn as […]
Source: NY Times: As in most countries, surrogacy is illegal in China. But a combination of rising infertility, a recent relaxation of the one-child-per-family policy and a cultural imperative to have children has given rise to a booming black market in surrogacy that experts say produces well over 10,000 births […]
Daily Times: by Aisha Fayyaza Sarwari — It is savagery at its worst, with everyone as an accomplice because there is a disagreement about your religious beliefs, under which many are unsure what kind of punishment is required. Yet there is no disagreement about random extremists acting out the judge, […]
Source: Wasim Sroya Note by Editor: A must read as very bravely and openly separation of state and religion along with Ahmadiyya matter has been highlighted in most circulated Urdu news paper. LINK
ET: Murder is commonplace and so is mass murder. It is a news item, and news items change too quickly to keep count, to mourn properly, to be disturbed over for very long. Yet, even now, occasionally the soul is bruised. It will not last, however, it does linger. Death […]
‘By the heaven having mansions of stars, And by the Promised Day By the testifier and the one who is testified Cursed be the people of the trenches – The fire fed with fuel – […]
Israel has rebuffed attempts to negotiate an end to the Gaza conflict amid signs that it may be moving towards unilaterally declaring a halt to fighting without an agreement that would involve concessions to Hamas. The decision to spurn fresh talks in Cairo aimed at forging a ceasefire deal came as the Israeli […]
Source: Democracy Now By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has entered its fourth week. This military attack, waged by […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to Encyclopedia Britannica: Baptism is a sacrament of admission to the Christian Church. The forms and […]
Summary The Palestinian tunnels show a determination to fight Israeli rule In turn, I am stunned that the Israelis were stunned, because they seem unable to grasp the nature of the conflict they are engaged in against all Palestinians. Anyone who uses traditional political, diplomatic or military criteria to analyze […]
Abu Jamal ARABNEWS.COM When the blessed month of Ramadan ends we leave behind the month emphasizing mercy, forgiveness, and freedom from the hellfire. But what do we take with us? We challenged our nafs (desires) and made progress. Now is the time to continue that progress, not fall back. How […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them […]
Three suspected Islamist militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same region. MORE…