Response: In one of your replies, you have said that legally telephonic marriage (Nikāh) cannot be objected to. You also said that people generally do not know that a better alternative exists accordi...
Response: In an answer published in your magazine regarding the fate of Non-Muslims who do not believe in the Prophethood of Muhammad (sws), you have explained the conditions for a person in order to...
Response: I might have misunderstood but from what I gather, in an article titled ‘Understanding the Qur’ān: A Fundamental Premise’ published in your Nov2000 issue that the argument in favour of Jihād...
Response: I have read one of your answers regarding the Hadīth of the Prophet (sws) which says that there will be more women in Hell than men. You said that it is not to be taken in a literal sense, f...
The religious history of mankind can be divided into two distinct periods. In the first period, which occupies the major portion of this history, the Almighty directly interacted with the inhabitants...
The various stages of the Rasūl Noah’s preaching mission are very compactly set forth in a brief sūrah of the Qur’ān: Sūrah Nūh. A short analysis of this preaching mission follows. Noah (sws) began hi...
Sūrah Qamar depicts this fate in the following words: [Similarly,] before them the folks of Noah [rejected their prophet] by declaring Our servant to be a liar and said that he was a madman, and he wa...
Moses (sws) one of the most distinguished Prophets of the Israelites declared the arrival of Muhammad (sws) among the Ismaelites in the following words: The Lord your God will raise up for you a proph...
Response: I have read in one of your answers that one willingly adopts homosexuality and that this is not a genetically compelled phenomena. You have argued that had it been genetically compelled, the...
Collection and Transmission of the Qur’an The Qur’ān we have with us today is the very one – word for word -- which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (sws). It was collected both in the form of a b...
I Following is a narrative of Sahīh Bukhari which mentions the collection of the Qur’ān by Abū Bakr (rta): Mūsā Ibn Isma‘īl narrates from Ibrāhīm Ibn Sa‘ad who narrates from Ibn Shihāb Zuhrī who narra...
The Controversial Personality of Ibn Shihāb Zuhrī 44 His full name is Abū Bakr Muhammad Ibn Muslim Ibn ‘Abdullāh Ibn Shihāb Zuhrī (d:124 AH). While he has been generally regarded as a reliable persona...
Arthur Jeffery in his preface to the Kitābu’l-Masāhif of Ibn Abī Dāwūd has summarized the views of the German oriental scholar Theodore Noldeke (d:1930) and his successors on the history of the collec...
Some people have pointed out the dissenting views of some Muslims on the authenticity and completeness of the Qur’ān. The fact is that not only are these dissenting points of view unacceptable viz a v...
Response: I have briefly gone through your articles on Jihād. There are few questions in that regard: What should a Muslim do, if he goes to his house and finds a gang of so-called Muslims raping his...
Response: I read in your journal the answer to the shortening of prayers. You have said that the distance after which we can shorten the prayers is not specified. But then why is it written in the boo...
The solution to the problems which plague our economic set-up lies in restructuring the economy of Pakistan on the basis of a just distribution of wealth and self-reliance in such a manner that gradua...
Response: I think your insistence in the columns of this journal on the condition of having a state or a government makes the declaration of Jihād impossible in the present world, and this will benefi...
O ye who believe! When you acquire a loan for a fixed period, record it in writing, and a scribe write it down between you with fairness; he who can write should not refuse to write, and just as Allah...
O believers! Do not devour one another’s wealth by evil means except through trading by mutual consent. (4:29) This verse prohibits a person from devouring other people’s wealth through means which ar...
