Quran

God’s love in the Quran My wife related an interesting incident she couldn’t help observing whilst travelling in the subway. An apparently Muslim lady wearinga hijab was standing  next to her seat holding on to the vertical steel support with one hand and reading sotto voce from a little book she held in the other.It did not take long for …

To the well-informed this staggering statistic should come as no surprise: Fifty-eight percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam. And with that comes a laundry list of misinformation about the faith's holy text, the Quran.  But a recent project by data analyst and research marketer Tom Anderson turns one common misconception on its head: that the Quran is …

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 …

Always Compassionate {It is by Allah's grace that you have dealt gently with them. Had you been harsh and hard- hearted, they would surely have broken away from you. Therefore pardon them and pray for forgiveness for them and consult with them in the conduct of public affairs. When you have resolved about a course of action, put your trust …

Given the centrality of theQur'anin the lives of the majority of more than one billion Muslims worldwide, the critical question is,"What, if there's anything, does theQur'ansay about human rights?"In Part One and Two we discussed the rights of life, respect, justice, freedom, privacy, protection from slander, backbite, and ridicule and acquiring knowledge.This part continues the discussion on human rights in …