By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed will sponsor on Tuesday the graduation ceremony of the 47th batch of graduates from the Islamic University in Madinah, rector Muhamamd bin Ali Al-Oukala has announced. He said the graduates came from 160 countries around the […]
Banda Aceh. Acehnese clerics have criticized Amnesty International’s call for the Indonesian government to repeal a bylaw that allowed caning, arguing that the practice did not violate any regulation in the world. In a statement released on Sunday, Amnesty said that caning violated the UN Convention Against Torture, which Indonesia […]
Filmmaker Terrence Malick’s latest, “The Tree of Life,” has been alternately described as a “tone poem” delving into issues about faith, family and forgiveness and a “coming of age story about the universe,” so it’s understandable that Monday’s Cannes press event got a little heavy. The movie tells the story […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS Published: May 23, 2011 01:00 Updated: May 23, 2011 01:00 MADINAH: Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Dawah, Call and Guidance Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al-Shaikh will launch on Monday a special website for the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah. The function will be at the location […]
The Holy Quran says about the Judgment Day, “Men ask thee concerning the Hour. Say, “The knowledge of it is with Allah alone.’ And what would make thee know that the hour may be nigh?” (Al Quran 33:64) But Mr. Fitzpatrick predicts the doomsday, not in 1000 years, or in 30 […]
The National Education Ministry’s plan to reconstruct the curriculum of religious education for students calls for the attention of all stakeholders, particularly because religious education has played and always plays an important role in the creation of an Indonesian identity. As we live in a diverse country, students should learn […]
I have come about to write this article after much thought and prayer and not without spiritual and psychological anguish, even at this very instant that I write. Over the last few months leading to the referendum, as an official minister of the Catholic Church I have been involuntarily made […]
I am going to vote yes and I am entirely comfortable with my choice because we are not voting on whether the Catholic Church’s take on divorce is correct or not or on whether divorce is a morally acceptable choice or not but simply about whether civil society should have […]
The emergence of secularism is often attributed to the Age of Enlightenment when, in the 18th century, major advances in philosophy, intellect, science and culture led to major changes in one’s reasoning. This resulted in a gradual consistent separation between state rule and Church teachings. I still remember in my […]
Laws are meant to discipline and protect. In Pakistan, not all laws do either. Recently, especially after the cold-blooded murders of Salmaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti, a good part of the Pakistani blogosphere voiced opinions against the abuse of the Blasphemy Law. Much has been said – a stronger part […]
We were stunned to read Jonathan Kay’s column describing Geert Wilders’ extreme polemics against Islam and Muslims (“Geert Wilders’ problem with Islam,” May 9). It contained unsupported hyperbole from the Dutch politician, such as “if you would strip the Koran of all the negative, hateful, anti-Semitic material, you would end […]
In the past, the word family referred exclusively and solely to a married man and woman who preferably had a couple of children. Today, the word family carries with it far more connotations; a single parent and his or her child is a family; two people of the same gender […]
By Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah and Dr. Zia H Shah Baitul Futuh Mosque, London With the political turmoil spreading from one Arab country to the next, during the last few weeks, several fears and demons have been reawakened. Could these changes herald development of a theocracy or establishment of Caliphate in some […]
CIREBON, INDONESIA — Before he strapped on his suicide vest, walked into a crowded police station mosque and blew himself up last month, Muhammad Syarif was typical of the scores of angry young men who pass their days at fundamentalist mosques in this coastal Javanese city. Enlarge This Image The authorities […]
It is being e-mailed to 40,000 subscribers! Friday sermon: Obedience to the State Delivered by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (ata) Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on April 1, 2011: Hudhur said the Qur’an states, and this part of the verse is recited every Friday: ‘Allah…forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and transgression.’ (Al Surah […]
KULIM: Mini mar-ket operator Tan Jai Wei (pic), 46, is not your everyday Buddhist. He donates to mosques and suraus and believes this has made his business flourish. Tan, who is married and has two children, said he held a vegetable carnival to collect donations for the construction of a […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) announced Wednesday that the Islamic Foundation, UK, is declared the winner of the IDB Prize in Islamic Economics for the year 2011 in recognition of its substantial contribution to the promotion of Islamic economics. The Prize will be awarded to the […]
By Mohammad Ghazal AMMAN – CEOs and senior executives from several private sector companies will mop floors and serve food to people at restaurants in Amman for a day as part of a campaign to start at the end of this month. The Mish 3aib (It is no shame) campaign […]