Before we venture into exploring the rationale offered by Qur’ān to support belief in God, a basic question that needs to be answered is this: ‘Are we Muslims allowed to raise questions on religious m...
The basic purpose of this life is ‘ibādat (51:56), ie humbly serving Allah, and not the achievement of material benefits. Why then are we supposed to be concerned about such ‘mundane’ matters in Islam...
The most significant feature of a truly Islamic economic system should be that it ought to be fair. Interest has been condemned by the Qur’ān because it jeopardises that ideal. The practice of demandi...
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-...
If they repent [of all un-Islamic beliefs], establish regular prayers and pay Zakāt, leave them alone. (9:5) This verse explains to the idolaters of Makkah the conditions which they had to fulfil to b...
God Almighty has vowed to preserve the Qur’ān from all possibilities of foreign interference and corruption. The Qur’ān says: It is indeed We Who have sent down this remembrance, and most surely We ar...
Individuals who stay away from practicing Islam despite being Muslims, fall into two broad categories: There is one group whose apparent association with Islam owes itself entirely to the accident of...
One of the areas where there are serious reservations in the minds of some people about the Qur’ānic teachings is the question of the extent of freedom an individual enjoys in being guided towards the...
I) Saving The Qur’ān makes a significant departure from the common economic wisdom by completely ignoring any positive mention of saving as an act of virtue. Not only that, it goes further in emphasis...
There has been a tendency amongst some Muslims writers to argue that Islamic Law has nothing to do with human intellect. Their reasons for such claims are based basically on misunderstanding about the...
Conventional banking is unacceptable to Islam for many reasons, not just because interest is a part and parcel of its operations. IF banking was the ambitious response of many Muslims to the challenge...
The common man is often confused, and, therefore, disgusted to learn about conflicting opinions concerning religious issues. There are many who strongly feel that the present tendency of general avers...
To the less-informed Muslims, Tarāwihs are additional, almost obligatory prayers prescribed specially for the holy month of Ramadhān. Anybody who does not say them in congregation, it is generally bel...
A pilot of our air force once narrated to me a personal experience of a lifetime: one that shook his imagination to the core and transformed his subsequent behaviour in life completely. He recounted:...
The Qur’ān says: ‘O you who believe, save yourselves and your families from the Fire whose fuel will be men and rocks, over which will be appointed stern and severe angels as wardens who would never d...
While life is indeed a priceless blessing, death puts an end to it, at least in this present, apparent world. How should a believer react to the phenomenon of death, specially when a close one has dis...
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,...
While discussing about the possibility of the Qur’ān being the word of God with an atheist, I drew his attention to the fact emphasized quite convincingly, among others, by Maurice Bucaille 1 that the...
Professor J.D. Latham belongs to that category of Christian scholars who have chosen to adopt a more sympathetic view about Islam and its followers than many of their predecessors who spared few stone...
While going through Sūrah Fatihah, the opening sūrah of the Qur’ān the reader is confronted with some other questions too and is likely to seek guidance, beyond the words of translations, in the inter...
