Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar ‘It is a tragedy and a blow to the basic pride of Arab Islamic civilisation’ Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the […]
By Tufail Ahmad New Indian Express During the 1930s through the forties, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the toast of Muslim politics in India, but it was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who had a substantive vision for human progress. Azad’s real name was Abul […]
National Editorial THE NATIONAL February 24, 2014 Updated: February 24, 2014 18:11:00 It is difficult to form a clear picture of the dynamics of the Syrian conflict on the ground, especially when it comes to the different jihadi groups that are fighting the regime and, more recently, each other. […]
Religious News Service | by Lauren Markoe Posted: 02/20/2014 4:54 pm EST Updated: 02/20/2014 5:59 pm EST WASHINGTON (RNS) Some of the brightest pro-business minds in the nation prodded the Dalai Lama on Thursday (Feb. 20) to offer a warm endorsement of capitalism. But during an appearance by the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism at […]
The largest global economies have pledged to install policies that will add $2 trillion to the world economy over the next five years. The G20 — the world’s 19 richest nations and the European Union — said the reforms aim to lift collective GDP by more than 2%. The group […]
Source: CNN Money By Maya Itah For starters, it admits highly ambitious students, pits them against each other with little attempt to level the financial playing field, and releases them into a market that can’t absorb them. You know law schools are deeply troubled when you ask a dean what […]
Epigraph: Do they not then look at the camel, how it is created? And at the heaven, how it is raised high? And at the mountains, how they are set […]
Epigraph: Do they not then look at the camel, how it is created? (Al Quran 88:18) Opinion by Joel Baden, special to CNN (CNN) – It’s been a rough 2014 for […]
Credit: TheXpressTribune By AFP Published: February 24, 2014 MIRAMSHAH: Unidentified gunmen on Monday killed a senior commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who had a government bounty on his head, officials and family […]
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Epigraph: Such is Allah, your Lord. There is no God but He, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He is Guardian over everything. Eyes cannot reach Him but […]
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By Shah N. Khan Secularism is the view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education. The word secular means worldly rather than spiritual and not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body such as secular music and secular government. Most of the 57 […]
July 12, 2013 08:37 PMBy Serene Assir STORY SUMMARY Simmering hostility between Syria’s mainstream rebels and jihadists has erupted into naked violence, with a Free Syrian Army commander in the coastal province of Latakia being shot dead by an Al-Qaeda front group. Kamal Hamami — better known by his nom-de-guerre Abu […]
By Will SmaleBusiness reporter, BBC News Continue reading the main story Shazia Saleem jokes that she started her food company simply because she was hungry. The bigger story is that she spotted both a gap in the market and a way to celebrate the two parts of her cultural […]
[29:18] ‘You only worship idols beside Allah, and you forge a lie. Those whom you worship beside Allah have no power to provide sustenance for you. Then seek sustenance from Allah, and worship Him, and be grateful to Him. Unto Him will you be brought back. [34:25] Say, ‘Who gives you sustenance from […]
Global Post: Egypt’s prime minister Hazem al-Beblawi said his government submitted its resignation to interim president Adly Mansour on Monday, state media reported. The announcement comes ahead of a presidential election due to be held by mid-April and as defence minister and army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is […]