My friend and brother in Islam, Hameed Abdul Karim is no more. He died in Makkah, Saudi Arabia due to a heart attack after completing his Hajj on Saturday the 26th of September 2015. A death immediately after Hajj is what most Muslims dream of, yet the loss of Hameed Abdul Karim is a great blow to Muslim Civil Society …

  Istanbul and Antalya have featured in a list of the world’s top shopping destinations for Muslim tourists in a report which provides detailed insights into their spending behavior while travelling.  The MasterCard-CrescentRating Muslim Shopping Travel Index 2015 (MTSI 2015) has revealed Muslim travelers spent a total of $62 billion globally in shopping and dining.  Istanbul was fifth while the …

Islamic Finance Today, the exclusive Islamic Banking and Finance Magazine has released its latest September 2015 issue.  The magazine which is available for free downloading features leading Islamic Finance writer Paul Mc.Namara, Start-Up Specialists, Muhammad Ikram Thowfeek and Mansoor Durrani and three special female contributors, Dr.Marjan Muhammad of ISRA, Nazeefa Fawzer of APIIT and Raja Teh Maimunah of Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad. You …

Two weeks ago when our dear friend Hamid Abdul Kareem came home in the night to tell me that he  had decided to go on  the Hajj pilgrimage together with his wife, I was pleased that he  has planned to  get closer to the Almighty Creator Allah. However seldom neither Hamid nor I realized that Allah was waiting to take …

It should be noted from the beginning that the very term Islam implies that peace is the basis and the norm of Muslim/non-Muslim relations. Islam is derived from the Arabic root S-L-M, whose generic meaning includes the concepts of peace and submission. From a spiritual perspective, Islam may be defined as attaining peace through submission to Allah or the state …