Muslim Issues

THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED The Times (London) Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage. Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches. The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly …

Sandwiched between US, European, Israeli and Indian designs and Pakistani Quislings! Will Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, survive the present Western conspiracies or will be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the   fear expressed   in view of the combined forces of United States, Europe and Israel which destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan have now extended their designs …

Appendix A Excerpted from “Human Rights in Islam” by ‘Allamah Abu Al-‘A’la Mawdudi. Chapter 3, subsection 5 – Al Tawhid Journal, vol. IV. No. 3 Rajab-Ramadan 1407. 5. Individual’s Right to Freedom: Islam has clearly and categorically forbidden the primitive practice of capturing a free man, to make him a slave or to sell him into slavery. On this point …

Definition: Supplicating Allah by means of an intermediary, whether it be a living  person, dead person, or a name or attribute of Allah Most High. Yusuf Rifa’i: I here want to convey the position, attested to by compelling legal evidence, of the orthodox majority of Sunni Muslim on the subject of supplicating Allah through an intermidiary (tawassul), and so I …

EXCERPTS FROM KAREN AMSTRONG: “I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s about what you do. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.” She points out that religious fundamentalism is not just a response to but, paradoxically, a product of contemporary culture. “We need to create …