What is thought of ‘religion’ as one that denies people their capacity to think and act reasonably, in every activity of life, whether religious or secular, social or spiritual, could apply to any religion but not to Islam;
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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
Science’s Amazing Progress in Knowledge
Recent scientific researches into heavenly phenomena have us all but wondering whether we are just chasing after ghosts.
Read more »Are You Surprised?
In Islam, the parents’ rights are immovable, irrevocable.
Read more »Acceptance and Rejection
Shedding of the world is not equal to the renunciation of the world.
Read more »In the Shades of Terrorism
Will the Beelzebub’s neo-con friends learn anything? What ushered them into the Shade of Terrorism?
Read more »The War on Terror
It is now eighteen years after 9/11. Fifty percent of the public has now begun to suspect the governmental version of the attacks.
Read more »The Art of Writing
One of the differences between pure art and the art of writing is that although writing is also described as an art, it is acquirable.
Read more »A Lie
If there has been a debacle, it is not the `Ulama, or the clergy, or Islam, which bear the responsibility for lack in progress.
Read more »A New Attack
Far from persecution, Muslim rulers in the early centuries of Islam have actually been great patrons of science and scientists.
Read more »A Deity Falls
Within 300 years, science has reached its outward limits. Its pace has now slowed, as it faces huge hurdles in its efforts to move forward.
Read more »Have the Leaders Failed the Ummah?
Have the Muslim political and religious leadership failed the Ummah?
Read more »The Chaos
The Muslim youth today knows nothing, understands nothing. Their entire learning is through 15-second clips on WhatsApp.
Read more »Reason and Logic (Part-2)
In a previous issue (Dec. 2018) we have pointed out that the world is largely lived in, and ruled, by those who have reason and logic missing in their mental make-up.
Read more »An Original Indian Woman
A struggle is afoot to bring back sanity, prevent suppression of criticism, and refusal to accept hatred as the normal way of life.
Read more »Reason and Logic
After the universal traits of hypocrisy, dishonesty and duplicity, how will Muslims escape this new malady of the loss of straight-thinking?
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