What made Khadījah raḍyAllāhu ‘anha (may Allāh be pleased with her) great? She was declared by the Prophet ﷺ to be of the greatest women of all time and given glad tidings of a house in Jannah, making her an exemplar of īmān.[1] She is often mentioned in our times as an icon of female empowerment, who knew what she …
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” … So what is wrong with these people that they fail to understand any word?” The Arabic word Fiqh means to understand something, to know something[i] or to understand the intended meaning of the speaker. After the codification of many of the sciences of Islām, the meaning of Fiqh took a very specific turn in referring to the science …
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Unique sentencing from Christian judge in Lebanon, where insulting religion can be punishable by up to three years in prison, praised as message of coexistence Three Lebanese teenagers who were hauled before a court on charges of insulting Christianity have been handed the unusual sentence of studying the references to the Virgin Mary found in the Quran. Christian judge Joceline Matta found …
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From Parliamentarians of intellectual giants To those accused of corruption, crime, fraud and hooliganism By Latheef Farook During the second half of 1960s when I started my journalistic career with the now defunct Independent Newspapers, I was sent to cover parliamentary proceedings. Within weeks I realized that here was a place where one could learn a lot. Those were the …
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