Ramazan is a blessed month. It is a month for fasting and doing good to one’s self by indulging in religious devotions and to one’s fellow beings by engaging in charity, hence earning Almighty Allah’s Pleasure. The holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) has stated: “When the month of Ramazan begins the gates of heaven are opened and the …

The Muslim Heritage of Eastern Sri Lanka edited by S.H.M.Jameel and Asiff Hussein is a record of the traditional society, lifestyle and culture of the Muslims of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The Muslims of Sri Lanka have a rich heritage and this is no better seen than in the Eastern Province which has the highest concentration of Muslims …

An inquiring Journalist shares his thoughts after a nearly three-week sojourn in the United States, telling us what America is and what it is not, and that looking at it in black or white is certainly not the answer to our problems. Asiff Hussein, though a layman, was fortunate to be part of a group of Sri Lankan religious scholars …

We in the modern world often tend to look at the hadd punishments prescribed in the Shari’ah as something really harsh. Beheading for murder, stoning to death for adultery and amputating hands for theft sometimes strike us as punishments that belong to another age and unsuited for the times we live in. However little do we stop to think that …

Why the Unholy Alliance between American Christian Fundamentalists and Jewish Zionists poses a threat to World Peace and what the Muslim World can do about it Little do we realize that events unfolding in the West today are bound to have serious implications for the Muslim world and indeed the world at large. One of these is of course the …