The pre-Islamic Arabs had no systematic law. Their conduct in individual life was controlled by the conventions of the family or the clan to which they belonged. In the broader aspects of their lives,...
The author can be contacted at: www.IslamMuhammadAly.com In August 1997, when I was about to leave for the United States for higher education, a lot of things were going on in my life. I had just reco...
A Muslim gets up early in the morning with these words on his lips: ‘O Allah, I thank you for enabling me to sleep and for enabling me to wake up.’ He cleanses himself and proceeds to the mosque for t...
It is a well-known fact that the Prophet of Islam (sws) was the supremely successful man in the entire human history. But he was not just a hero, as Thomas Carlyle has called him. According to the Qur...
Dr Salam (d:1998) was a Nobel Laureate, a former Scientific Advisor to the Government of Pakistan and remained Director International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste, Italy. These are excerpts...
This is an extract of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the headmaster of the school in which his son was studying. (Editor) He will have to learn. I know that all men are not just, all men are n...
The worldly life of ours, which is a very short duration of existence between birth and death, is only a trial, nothing more and nothing less than that. Whatever different phases man experiences here,...
You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can’t sit on them long -- Boris Yeltsein They come, they see – and they disrupt: they take out processions, they intimidate people, they shout slogans,...
The funny thing is that we all know it. Sooner or later, we find it out. Yet, most of us choose to close our eyes to it. Perhaps because our immense desire to find a paradise right here cons us into b...
The author in this article has attempted to answer the queries of those who do not appreciate the idea of studying a course on Islamic ethics in an academic programme focusing on business or business-...
The last few centuries bear witness to a sharp decline in the individual as well as the collective affairs of the Muslims. All over the globe, they seem to have lost their identity. They appear to be...
The Muslims of the world, taken as one body, do not present the image of a coherent personality. There is, that is to say, no consensus among them about certain fundamental issues. They are not all co...
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time …An unusual day in the year 1863; the place a remote village of India... …...
In his essay ‘The Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’ Keynes envisaged a future that would afford people the possibility to ‘live wisely and agreeably and well.’ At this stage, he wrote ‘I s...
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? 1 For as long as the political process has trudged along after the last martial law, political leaders have been falling out over who has done more for the country. Yet,...
Quid Rides? 1 A strong relationship is based on love. And there are many who say ‘I love you’, but few who live up to it. Without loyalty love is mere infatuation -- at best ‘humour’, which fails to s...
For the second group, man is part of a great machine. All importance is of the machine and the part is insignificant. This view is also incorrect. Everything of the universe, the sun, the moon, the cl...
What is the appropriate conduct for man in this life and what is his place in the universe. These questions have always been of fundamental importance. Both are interconnected so that one cannot prope...
`All men are equal'. There is no doubt whatever about that. But I am sorry I must change this one slightly before those nice ladies from APWA sue me for discriminating women. So let's begin again: `Al...
This issue marks the end of the fifth year of the journal's short but challenging history. Five years ago, we had embarked on this mission with these words: "The inaugural issue of RENAISSANCE is befo...
