People who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder Written by Elizabeth Drescher British psychiatry researchers recently stirred the […]
Aisha Stacey ARABNEWS Friday 1 February 2013 God created human beings to worship Him and a practicing Muslim, in essence, should be able to worship God in every second, every […]
Gandhi, Islam and more The HinduNEW ARRIVAL: Vice-President Hamid Ansari (second from left) releasing a book titled “Faith and Freedom: Gandhi in History” authored by Professor Mushirul Hasan (left) along with former West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi (second from right) and renowned author Ashis Nandy (right) on the 65th […]
Source: Twitter: Shakil Mirza Mazar-e-Quaid- mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Karachi, Pakistan
Clashes between TTP, Ansarul Islam enter day four DAWN.COM and Zahir Shah Sherazi | 8 hours ago 0 The image shows militants. — Photo by Reuters/File LANDI KOTAL: The clashes between Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Ansarul Islam (AI) militant groups in Khyber tribal region’s Tirah valley area entered their fourth day as the […]
Religious affairs office tells schools to close for refusing to provide Islamic teaching to their Muslim children Blitar, NU Online: The Religious Affairs Ministry’s office in Blitar, East Java, has […]
Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” — that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the dark story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break […]
Source: The Register Programmers often talk about writing “beautiful code,” but computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has taken that idea to new lengths by developing the first programming language that uses Arabic script for its source code. The language is called قلب – roughly pronounced “alb,” after the Arabic word for […]
Indonesian Ulema in favour of female circumcision: a “human right” The practice is “recommended” and according to “tradition”, although it can not be made compulsory. For the head of the […]
(THE JAKARTA POST) — Six Catholic schools in Blitar municipality, East Java, have finally given in to a local ordinance and will provide Islamic lessons for their Muslim students. The […]
Expecting the unexpected: Rabbis, Islam, and the End of Days [ by Charles Cameron — strange intersections between Islamic, Judaic and Christian teachers around the end times, also Yehuda Etzion of the […]
Epigraph: “O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear […]
“To be a Muslim is not a child’s play. It requires complete submission in every thing to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Do not take it cursorily. It is a matter worth deep consideration. Do not feel complacent until you obey the Holy Prophet […]
Epigraph: “And remember when Jesus, son of Mary, said, ‘O children of Israel, surely I am Allah’s Messenger unto you, fulfilling that which is before me of the Torah, and […]
January, 2012 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jan. 20th — Presidential Inauguration Day, for President Barack Obama — is a Sunday, so […]
UC Irvine’s ‘Islam Awareness Week’: A CAIR Convention The latest example of the Muslim Brotherhood’s unsettling influence on U.S. campuses. By Arnold Ahlert · January 16, 2013 5 Comments The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is holding its 2013 “Islam Awareness Week 2013” from January […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since the collapse of USSR, the President of USA, may be considered to be the most powerful person […]
Source: India Today Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed had a major role in the recent attack on Indian Army’s patrolling team in Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir. According to sources, days before the January 8 ambush, the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks’ mastermind had announced a reward of Rs.5 lakh for […]