CO-EXISTENCE
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After 9/11 I had more questions about Islam, but I thought that people who converted to Islam were misguided. When I was 51 I went back to college to finally finish my bachelor’s degree. To satisfy a requirement, I decided to take a course in Islamic history. I was born and raised in the… Read more
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“O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most pious of you. Indeed God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.”—(Quran 49:13) The reason I decided to use this verse… Read more
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There are so many instances in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah, where Allah Almighty stresses the interconnectedness between the two- with Dunya (life) representing the platform through which humankind practice their Deen; the law they abide by and adhere to in their living. The inherited misconception of a seeming “split” between Deen “religion”, and… Read more
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It’s not befitting us Muslims to live in the shades of darkness of perception as to where our freedoms start and where they end.. It is equally not befitting us to murmur just what recurs in the media. Common sense dictates that we learn, understand about our position in the societies we’re living in, and… Read more
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The glaring achievements of Muslim scientists in developing science and methods of scientific research are made known as a matter of fact. The analysis of Islamic scientific legacy may allow one to conclude that “Experimentation” is an essential step in the scientific research which is based on induction, deduction and “qias” (analogy). Making use of… Read more
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Jizyah as a section of the Islamic Shariah, or Islamic law, has long been a source of great controversy and largely misinterpreted by those of poor Islamic knowledge or no knowledge at all … Jizyah is a tax prescribed and levied on non-Muslim citizens in an Islamic State, those who meet certain criteria set and… Read more
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In this series of articles, I will discuss the origins of Shi’ism from the perspectives of politics, creed and extremism. It is a study that shows that Shi’ism originated as a sheer political faction which, however, almost immediately started to assume an ideological complexion as well, meant for its philosophical and actual buttressing and… Read more
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Islamophobic attacks and negative attitude towards Muslims or any brown-skinned people have been on the rise in recent years, primarily in European and American societies- The question is does this signal the failure of Muslims to present their true potential and integrate into the West, or the insistence of those societies to not accept the… Read more
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It’s not a question of whether Muslims are capable of warding off the rampant anti-Islamic attitude they face in Non-Islamic communities- For Muslims are indeed equipped with all the tools required for that. They just need to decode the morals and lessons inherent in their Deen. Nothing’s becoming more intriguing in our modern times than… Read more
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Semitic is a word derived from “Shem”, son of Prophet Noh, the progenitor of the Semitic people among whom sprouted the three monotheistic legislations, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Thus, limiting the meaning of “Anti-Semitism” to anything politically damaging to Israel is plain hypocrisy. When people express their disapproval of Israel’s policy and atrocities it commits… Read more