Shaheed Benazirabad Police has claimed to have arrest the main suspect involved in the desecration of the Holy Quran within 24 hours of the incident. According to police on Sunday, the incident occurred in a mosque located in village Golo Dahri within the jurisdiction of Qazi Ahmed Police Station, where the reported desecration caused widespread […]
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The need for minimalism in the times we are living in!
Is there really any happiness in collecting things? Well if there were; happiness wouldn’t have been such a moving target for many now would it? Why is that for so many of us life has just become about living from one paycheck to the next. Oftentimes your paycheck hasn’t even come through yet and there’s […]
3 questions my mind inquires in present times
1. What happened to “simple life is happy life”? All I see is people becoming as fake as the fancy Instagram filters. It seems as if there is race and everyone, you and I, the girl next door, the shopkeeper, the driver, every single being is running hard to win a prize no one knows […]
Seek knowledge even if you have to go to China
When I quoted the above hadith, I was immediately attacked by some Muslims, who obviously regard themselves as repositories of all Islamic knowledge. They said it was fabricated or forged. But the tradition has wide circulation throughout the Muslim world, and I was informed about it by several Muslim friends. Even Prime Minster of Malaysia […]
Enlightenment and Islam
In the early part of this month, during my sojourn to the Holy Land, the question which perplexed me most was whether there was a real connection between enlightenment and faith, and whether in their genesis these two are all-embracing or mutually exclusive. My deep reflections on various texts of the Holy Quran, and some […]
On Washington DC’s hidden Islamic trail
The ‘David’-like physiology and ‘Nike’ wings were Greco-Roman, but his turban, beard and ‘semitic’ face, were unmistakably of the East. He sat majestically with one arm under his chin and his right foot atop a distilling retort. “Those figures represent the building blocks of Western civilization. There’s Spain, England, the Middle Ages, even Islam is […]
Qistas: equity not equality
Gender equality is an issue on a significant rise these days. We hear the chant “Equality, Equality” from all sides, but while some women have a problem with the fact that people don’t understand the true meaning of the word “feminism”, some men are of the opinion that women voicing their concern for fundamental rights, […]