79% in India Believe God is Necessary for Morality
% who say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral: 🇮🇩Indonesia 96% 🇵🇭Philippines 96% 🇳🇬Nigeria 93% 🇧🇷Brazil 84% 🇮🇳India 79% 🇹🇷Turkey 75% 🇲🇽Mexico 55% 🇺🇸U.S. 44% 🇷🇺Russia […]
India’s crazy-rich temples get wealthier by the day
Source: Arab News NEW DELHI: Vinod Tawde donates a kilogram of gold each time he visits the Tirupati Temple, located in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, every year. […]
Indian PM lays foundation stone of new temple at razed mosque site
Modi Founds Temple on Mosque’s Ruins, in Triumphal Moment for Hindu Base Source: New York Times By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar In a ceremony in Ayodhya, a past flash point for sectarian […]
India’s PM to attend temple groundbreaking at disputed site
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next […]
German president thanks Muslims for Ramadan lockdown conduct
Source: DW German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Muslims on Friday for adhering to the country’s lockdown measures during Ramadam, while also calling for an end to the hatred directed towards the religious minority. In a message on the eve of the end of the month of fasting and reflection, Steinmeier wrote […]
Bradford mosque leader’s legal bid over lockdown prayer ban
Source: BBC A mosque leader in Bradford has taken legal action against the government over lockdown restrictions on Friday prayers due to coronavirus. Under the rules, places of worship must remain shut, with a few exceptions. Tabassum Hussain, from the Jamiyat Tabligh-ul-Islam Mosque, argued the ban was “unlawful” and has […]
Coronavirus: French court orders ban on worship to end
Source: BBC France’s administrative court has ruled that the government must lift a blanket ban on meetings at places of worship within eight days. The ban was put in place […]
13 holy sites you can visit on a virtual tour during Ramadan
Source: Daily Sabah In the last week of Ramadan, a different experience for Muslims this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can pay a virtual visit to many sacred […]
Muslims must perform Eid al-Fitr prayers at home: Al-Azhar
Source: Egypt Independent Al-Azhar’s Senior Scholar Authority on Sunday has decreed that, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, all Muslims must perform the Eid al-Fitr prayers at home either alone or […]
Compulsory cremation: A nightmare for Sri Lanka’s Muslims
Source: TRT World Lukman Harees The meme ‘Dying While Muslim’ may not be as familiar as ‘Flying While Muslim’ – which came into prominence in the post-9/11 years when Muslims began to experience Islamophobia after being singled out at airports and airlines. But this meme has now gained popularity in […]
A brief history of Islam in China – including a moment of prominence
Reflections by Wee Kek Koon The religion is believed to have arrived in the 600s, brought in by traders from the Middle East and Central Asia Although Muslims settled in […]
Muslim contributions to the Soviet and allied victory over Nazi Germany
Source: TRT World By Salahuddin Mazhary Lack of or belated official recognition marked Muslim contribution to the Soviet war effort, even though it was an ethnic Kazakh soldier, Rakhimzhan Qoshkarbaev who was the first to raise former USSR’s flag at the German parliament building. The 9th of May is a […]
The call to prayer is a prayer for the future, a call to those in times of despair
Source: The Star By Mustafa Farooq “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.” The delivery room at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton is dark, but on May 5, 2015, at 6 a.m., […]
Cambridge council allows mosque to broadcast call to prayer during Ramadan
Source: The Record By Anam Latif The Muslim call to prayer will be heard echoing from the Islamic Centre of Cambridge after council passed a temporary noise exemption bylaw at […]
India’s Hindus on fasting during Ramadan
Source: Arab News By Sanjay Kumar Gesture by a Hindu doctor expresses solidarity amid rising Islamophobia NEW DELH: He wakes up before sunrise for sahoor and abstains from food and […]
Science, statistics and society – The story of a modern coup d’état
Source: Al Hakam By Asif M Basit In the last few weeks – now slowly turning into months – everyone around the world has had a set of words and […]
Modi Denies India Is Targeting Muslims. We Found a Different Reality.
By Karan Deep Singh, Emma Cott, Natalie Reneau and Suhasini Raj April 4, 2020 How can someone who’s lived for years as a citizen of India suddenly be declared illegal? […]
Pandemic Has Helped Religious Faith: Atheists Are Appalled
Few Americans say their house of worship is open, but a quarter say their faith has grown amid pandemic Source: Pew Research Center BY CLAIRE GECEWICZ Americans are much more likely […]
Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It
Source: Aeon Social scientists predicted that belief in the supernatural would drift away as modern science advanced. They were wrong. By Peter Harrison, who is an Australian Laureate Fellow and […]
Baba Guru Nanak: A Saintly Bridge Between Hinduism and Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Guru Nanak ([gʊɾuː naːnəkᵊ], pronunciation, IAST: Gurū Nānak) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539), also referred to as Baba Nanak[1] (‘father Nanak’), was […]