Articles in Community
By Shaykh Mohammed Amin Kholwadia
People often question whether Islam is a tolerant religion, whether it tolerates diversity of thought among its adherents and in its interaction with different worldviews. This question is easily answered …
By Mawlana Taha Karaan
This paper was written in response to Amina Wadud’s controversial Friday prayer congregation in March 2005.
The appropriation of the Hadith of Umm Waraqah as proof for the permissibility and validity of …
By Sohaib Baig
In a society which trains its citizens in the art and philosophy of achieving instant self-gratification, of becoming thoroughly submerged in one’s own bubble of pleasure, it becomes dangerously difficult for one to …
By Shaykh ‘Abul Hasan ‘Ali Nadwi
The body of Din which has reached us can be divided into two kinds. One kind is that which has reached us in a particular state and form; it is …
By Khalid Baig
Hajj is obligatory once in a lifetime on those who can afford it, but it benefits the entire Ummah. Islam’s acts of worship have multiple dimensions and they are organized at multiple layers. …
By Khalid Baig
The promoters of nude body scanners have used one argument that they consider to be bullet-proof. It is all about saving lives, they assure us. The news reports that …
By Khalid Baig
“My own feeling is that we’ve pushed women too far,” says Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, the 80 year old Harvard University doctor who is frequently called “America’s Pediatrician,” in a recent interview in …
By Shehu Abdulqadr
Colonialism is one fettered wound that time has failed to heal. And what can heal a wound which has defied the soothing balm of time except the sustained efforts of …
By Abdus Shakur Brooks
Imam Muhammad Zahid al-Kauthari (1371 A.H; Cairo), formerly the Deputy Grand Mufti of the Ottoman Empire, explained in his article on “Hijab al-Mar’ah” ( “Women’s Hijab”, meaning to cover her …
By Shaykh Abu ‘l-Hasan ‘Ali al-Nadwi
(From the prologue of Saviours of Islamic Spirit)
We find extremely few persons who have revived and renovated other religions. The absence of such teachers for hundreds or …
