Message in Arabic with Urdu subtitles: To mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, its World Head, the Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has delivered […]
Epigraph Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful women, and men steadfast in their faith and steadfast women, and men who are humble and women who are humble, […]
Weatherwise: by Ed Darack — Splintering gale force winds, stabbing cold, blistering heat, blinding fog, pitiless rain … the sky can foul our lives in endless ways to all degrees, from the mild sting of an icy breeze on our ears to the lethal crush of a hurricane’s storm surge. […]
Alislam.org: He it is Who has raised among the unlettered people a Messenger from among themselves who recites unto them His Signs, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book […]
Huff Post — While Saudi Arabia is well-known for its “religious police” that enforce government-approved religious moral codes, from gender-segregation and the ban of alcohol to rules against women driving, a Pew Research Center analysishas found that similar religious police exist in nearly one-in-ten countries. Pew’s findings on religious police, part […]
Khaled Ahmed | March 21, 2014 9:53 am, Indian Express CII has become aggressive with Talibanisation and the capacity of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to target-kill people supporting modern or “liberal” views. (Reuters) Summary In Pakistan, the Council of Islamic Ideology has been in overdrive. It could be a portent. […]
Telegraph: Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under guidelines for solicitors on drawing up “Sharia compliant” wills. Under ground-breaking guidance, […]
Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming Biblical drama “Noah” may be “the least biblical biblical film ever made,” as the director said, but it turns out quite a few Christian leaders enjoy the […]
ET: If you can’t win the game, change the rules. This has been the cornerstone of the political ideology of religious groups from Egypt to Pakistan. It all started from Syed Qutb in Egypt and his mentor Maulana Maududi in Pakistan. Qutb, upon his return from the United States, became increasingly disturbed […]
Suppressed Histories: by Max Dashu I would like to offer an alternative to the locked-in polarity between some of the more uninformed Wiccan takes on history and the denial by many academic historians that repression of social and cultural groups played any role in the witch hunts. Of course, the […]
National Post: by Sarah Boesveld — AUCKLAND, New Zealand — It was a meeting Principal Bruce McLachlan awaited with dread. One of the 500 students at Swanson School in a northwest borough of Auckland had just broken his arm on the playground, and surely the boy’s parent, who had requested […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Comment: I hope President Obama openly acknowledges some of his Islamic background, to the Pope and presents him a new book by Prof. Bart Ehrman, coming […]
He lived by example Khushwant Singh | May 17, 2011, 12.00 AM IST READ MORE Sikh|Mughals|guru Guru Gobind Singh lived by example RELATED The eternal guru Guru Cool Lord of the seven hills Dialogue with Lord of Death What kind of man was Guru Gobind Singh? I will draw your […]
The Clinton Family, Bill Clinton in the center, Hilary Clinton on his right and Chelsea on his left Lead post collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Bill Clinton on Leadership Source: CNN Money What does leadership mean to you? Leadership means bringing people together in […]
Sermon Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Source: alislam.org Also available in the below translations: Urdu Bengali Bulgarian German Swahili Turkish Audio translations: Urdu: Play | download […]
Adnan Virk is Joan Rivers to Keith Olbermann’s Johnny Carson By Jeff Hale | Eh Game – 13 hours ago http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/adnan-virk-joan-rivers-keith-olbermann-johnny-carson-221953291.html Adnan Virk, left, co-hosting ESPN’s Mike and Mike radio show with Mike Golic. Ask Adnan Virk if he is a rising star at ESPN and he will refer to the assessment […]
Epigraph: And if you fear that you will not be fair in dealing with the orphans, then marry of women as may be agreeable to you, two, or three, or […]
Source: BBC By Emmanuel Igunza, Ethiopia Ethiopia is pressing ahead with construction of a major new dam on the River Nile, despite stiff opposition from Egypt. BBC correspondents in both […]
Onislam.net: MADRID – Spain’s Catholic Church bids to annex the centuries-old Cordoba mosque has been vehemently criticized by rights groups demanding the recognition of the Islamic rich history in Spain. […]
Newsweek Pak: As Pakistan faces off its darkest moment of terrorist challenge, citizens are asking how long they will have to wait for a consistent policy response from the state and government. The drumbeat and din are growing; the pressure to act is also upped by gunship helicopters and Air […]