The Almighty has made this world a place for trials and tests. Here each person has been given the chance to prove his mettle and become worthy of an eternal reward in the Hereafter. If he is unable t...
Response: While browsing your web site, I came across the February 2002 issue of your magazine which contained the following query: Can a Woman become the Head of State? What you said was that if she...
Unfortunately, Jihād has become one of the most misunderstood doctrines of Islam. To many Muslims, Jihād is the answer to all their sufferings, but to non-Muslims it is perhaps become the primary reas...
Muslims are required by their religion to submit to the authority of the country they live in. They must comply with their rulers and not create chaos in anyway. The Qur’ān directs them to follow thos...
Both the Qur’ān and the established practice of the Prophets of Allah explicitly say that Jihād can only be waged by a state. No group of people have been given the authority to take up arms, because...
Today the world is becoming more and more sensitive to environmental pollution. Cleansing the atmosphere and human surroundings from things that are detrimental to any form of life has assumed unprece...
Response: In one of your responses, ie. the philosophy of mahr, you quoted verse 4:25 ‘pay them their dowers according to the custom’. I have read other translators that interpret the word that you ha...
Humility is the key to scholarship and self-righteousness is perhaps the greatest impediment to it. In the study of religion, contemporary Muslims scholars have generally adopted the latter approach....
Almost six months have passed since that fateful morning of September 11 when several thousand innocent civilians of the United States were mercilessly massacred by a team of suicide pilots. The ghast...
The quest for the truth can prove to be the most despondent of tasks. At times, it may seem a lost cause, a mission impossible. So rough and rugged may be the terrain traversed that one tends to lose...
Readers are advised to first carefully go through the components of the article that appear in the contents section of the journal so that they can have a clear comprehension of its overall arrangemen...
The various stages of the Prophet Noah’s preaching mission are very compactly set forth in a brief sūrah of the Qur’ān: Sūrah Nūh. A short analysis of it follows: a. The Propagation Phase Noah (sws) b...
Sūrah Qamar depicts in the following words the fate of some nations who deliberately rejected their Messengers: كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ فَكَذَّبُوا عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا مَجْنُونٌ وَازْدُجِرَ...
It has been shown that non-Muslim minorities living in an Islamic state must be classified as Mu‘āhids (citizens by contract). As far as the attitude of an Islamic state to its non-Muslim minorities i...
It has been shown that non-Muslim minorities living in an Islamic state must be classified as Mu‘āhids (citizens by contract). As far as the attitude of an Islamic state to its non-Muslim minorities i...
We are all born to die. Death is the greatest and perhaps the most neglected reality of life. Some fleeting moments and then off we go. We may fall to the deception of this transience -- but not for l...
Question: Upon examination of Islāhī’s commentary on Sūrah Fīl published in your journal, I had a few questions and concerns over the particular interpretation presented by him. The questions arose ov...
Response: In one of your answers, you state this Hadīth from the Sahīh of Bukhārī one such incident from which the extent to which gatherings of music and dance had reached can be imagined. It is narr...
Response: I have some questions on the answer you have given in your column regarding the purpose of the Hijāb. I understand from your answer that ‘not rousing men’ is not the purpose of the Hijāb. Th...
Response: In one of your answers you have said that Allah is a neutral, genderless term. How can it be when Allāt also comes from the word ilah (deity) and means ‘goddess’? The Qur’ān repeatedly refer...
