By Zubair Khan Since 1993, loving and informal relations existed between me and late Dr A Wahab Adam, Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission (AMM) Ghana. Every year we used to meet on the eve of either UK or German Jalsa. There was something very special in his personality which always attracted me towards him where ever […]
(CNN) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has made a renewed call for Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to cease violence towards the countries’ Muslim minorities, in an […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Epigraph: The prescribed fasting is for a fixed number of days, but whoso among you is sick or is on a journey shall fast the same number of other days; and for those who are able to fast only with great difficulty is an expiation — the feeding of a […]
Source: NDTV The Supreme Court today ruled that Shariat courts have no legal sanction and no one is bound to accept a fatwa or diktat pronounced by them.The court decided […]
Almost all Deobandi religious leaders and all Barelvi ulema were on the payroll of the empire. This is how they sustained a living and ample proof can be found in their own books Canadian activist and polemicist Tarek Fatah, responding to my article ‘Shorish Kashmiri, Azad and partition’ last week […]
kashifmd.com: Ahmadiyya Islam: Status of non-Ahmadi Muslims? Can non-Ahmadi Muslims identify themselves as Muslims according to Ahmadiyya Islam? The simple and ONLY answer is: YES! Everyone has the right to self-identity. Do Ahmadi Muslims identify non-Ahmadi Muslims as Muslims? Another YES! Recently, I have come across some critics of Islam who […]
AL-MADINAH: NADIM AL-HAMID The holy month of Ramadan is not only a month of fasting and feasting but also one of miracles. “If it wasn’t for my neighbors and friends, […]
The Huffington Post | By Antonia Blumberg Poverty, disease and broken hearts — can religion be the answer to these and other problems in today’s world? According to a recent Gallup […]
The Huffington Post | By Antonia Blumberg Poverty, disease and broken hearts — can religion be the answer to these and other problems in today’s world? According to a recent Gallup […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 7 July 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the payment of SR1.39 billion in emergency assistance to poor families in the Kingdom. “Families subscribed to the social insurance scheme will benefit from the royal gesture,” said an official statement. […]
Huff Post: by Michelle Cove — I started to see it happen last year when my daughter was in third grade. She and her friends lost all ability to accept a compliment. If you told one, “Hey, congratulations on your science project,” she’d respond, “Thanks, but did you see Christine’s? […]
By Robert Fisk, in the Independent newspaper Dumping blame for the Holocaust on the wretched figure of the Grand Mufti is an insult to the six million victims of an evil regime A highly incriminating story, if true – but “possible” is hardly the stuff of history And so – […]
theguardian — Michael Gove has called for a “robust” defence of liberal values in the face of the challenge from Islamist extremists. The education secretary said it was essential that extremists were denied a platform in schools and other public institutions to push their agenda. Speaking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr […]
IPSnews: by Azza Suleiman — CAIRO, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Although indicators relating to women have improved over the years, they still remain large differences between men and women in literacy and schooling, the labor force and unemployment, and political participation. In Egypt, as in most other countries, there are […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: For a genuine understanding of Separation of Mosque-Church and State, let me suggest the reading of paragraph numbered 55, in this Papal publication from 1907. How glaringly wrong it was in terms of response to modernity and freedom of speech? This reading should be particularly efficacious […]
Occupied Jerusalem: Like many residents of the prosperous Occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Waleed Abu Khudair lives a life in two cultures: His neighbours are predominantly Palestinian, but his boss and customers at a popular West Jerusalem bakery are Jewish. It’s a dualism that has worked for years. But […]
By Shamim Masih We learnt the story from The Bible, when Abram heard that his brother (Lot) was taken captive, He brought back all the goods, and also brought again […]
When the Iranian revolution of 1979 took place, Nadia Shahram was a student in Buffalo, New York, far away from her family in Iran. But her mother and sisters were […]