Editor's Desk
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A Warner to all and the blessings for the entire world as he was, the Prophet Mohammed’s message had a bearing of universality. He called for the general well being of all mankind, for the emancipation of man from man-made shekels. Islam then appeared to many as a liberating force, a gate wide open on all those seeking solace irrespective of their caste, creed, colour or race. The message of Islam coming from the mouth…
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Leaders
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Digression from Iqra
The much publicised notion that the Prophet Mohammed was an unlettered person had a far-reaching impact on the Muslim mind. It not only discouraged attitude of scientific enquiry among muslims,…
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Clinging to false Hopes
The dismissal of the Muslim nation from world leadership and her subsequent decline since then have made the common Muslim cling to false hopes, at times amounting to Shirk. Today…
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Insight
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Religious Human Rights and the Qur’an
Given the centrality of the Qur’an to the lives of the majority of the more than one billion Muslims of the world, the critical question is: What, if anything, does…
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Enlightenment as an Islamic Concept
Terminology: It would be more appropriate to elucidate the issue of enlightenment before we tackle it from an Islamic point of view. Enlightenment as a linguistic term: In Lissan EI…
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The Nature Of The Environmental Crisis
Ours is a period when the human community is in search of new and sustaining relationships to the earth amidst an environmental crisis that threatens the very existence of all…
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Prelude to Reconstruction: Shedding Complexes and Avoiding Violence
Only some may know the reality about Islam and Muslims, but the image that is everywhere is not good. Islam and Muslims are being projected as a threat to peace.…
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Removing the Dichotomy of Sciences: A Necessity for the Growth of Muslims
Introduction. In the Muslim scholarship, during the last few centuries, a dichotomy of sciences has developed, that is, deeni (“religious”) sciences and dunyawi (worldly) sciences. Muhammad Muhsin Khan[1] in his…
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