Crimes today are such that they can be ignored only at society’s peril. Whether in the West or in the East, crime has definitely taken a turn for the worse, writes SYED IQBAL ZAHEER.
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Syed Iqbal Zaheer, a mechanical engineer by training and profession, is today a well-known researcher and writer on Islam, its culture and civilization. Quite apart from the Tafsir Ishraq al-Ma’ani, the fourteen-volume commentary on the Qur’an, he is also the author of numerous books and booklets on Islam.
Recently, he headed, in his capacity as the Chief Editor, the ambitious ‘An Educational Encyclopedia of Islam’ project which is a two-volume, 1300 multi- colour page, compendium of knowledge on Islam, its civilization and heritage. The Young Muslim Digest, one of the most authentic periodicals on Islam in English has been edited by him since the last three decades.
Editorials
Where Do We Go?!
From the microscopic to the macroscopic, from the atom as the basic building block of matter to the farthest reaches of the universe, there is clearly a limit to what the human mind can encompass.
Read more »Breaking Another’s Bread
Unemployment is a product of modern politico-socio-economic system, and its material culture. It will remain so long as they remain.
Read more »Doubly Amazing
No one knows how big the universe is. Indeed, if not for trustworthiness of the scientists and their equipment, it is hard to accept the figures given by them, which are in trillions.
Read more »The Toothless One
What is motherhood now? To millions and billions who have become mothers, the word ‘motherhood’ sounds like it is something new.
Read more »Uncertainty
Unlike the unbelievers, the believers live in a world of certainties: in a world of their own. They are sure of their lives, sure of their deaths, and sure of what will happen thereafter
Read more »On Liberty
Liberty in Islam is not for an individual alone. It is for the individual, the group, the society and mankind in general, accompanied by a sense of responsibility.
Read more »The Ghostly Atom
Stagnation in scientific development is not the share of physics alone. Take any field: cosmology, biology, psychology; and even philosophy and theology.
Read more »Distrusting the Trusted
What was once trusted as genuine sources of guidance – the media, scientific education, economy and even the people themselves – are today looked upon with suspicion, if not outright rejection.
Read more »Stupidity and Cleverness
Investigation will falter in its first step, if not approved by logic. Thus, logic leads to invention and to progress. The progress, which people cite as example of rationalism, are only scientific i.e., a product of logic and rationalism
Read more »The Crisis of Our Times
Islam has given its followers, and the humanity through them, the responsibility to act rightly, to alleviate the sufferings, and thus take mankind closer to their Creator
Read more »Are We Alone?
There are estimated to be 100 billion stars in our Galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies like our own in the cosmos.
Read more »Epochal Times
The triumph of Islam is a given. It has to happen. Even if a date, time or season cannot be predicted about it.
Read more »The Challenge before Atheism
If the Qur’an is unique and inimitable – and the Hadith is unique, but imitable – then the Qur’an has to be from God, as the Prophet claimed and pronounced
Read more »On Atheism
To attribute authorship of the Qur’an to Muhammad’s (peace on him), is to demonstrate one’s stupidity – in addition to fanaticism
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