Response: This question is in reference to one of your replies. You said that Allah's name must necessarily be taken before slaughtering animals and that the lack of pronouncing any other name does no...
Response: There seems to be a difference of opinion among Muslim scholars about bowing down before martial art fights. Some have told me that it is not allowed and that bowing of any form, whether at...
Response: In one of your answers you have stated that there is nothing wrong with women plucking their facial hairs. I have some reservations about your deduction as I have contrary evidence: `Abdullā...
Your God is one God. There is no God but He. He is the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful. Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sa...
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...
An Islamic State is an ideological state. Keeping in view its specific ideology, its citizens can be classified into two categories: 1) Those who become its citizens after accepting its ideological ba...
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... …...
Islāhī was born in 1904 at Bamhūr, a small village in Azamgarh (U.P.), India. He received his early education in two local schools of the village. His father Hafiz Muhammad Murtaza was a small landlor...
More than one-fourth of the Qur’ānic Sūrahs begin with certain abbreviated letters called Hurūf-i-Muqatta‘āt. These letters are actually the names of the respective sūrahs, as is evident from the Qur’...
A detailed analysis of the economy reveals that the whole economic set-up of our country is based on great vice and evil. The foremost evil in it is the institution of Banking. Through this institutio...
Book: Towards Understanding the Qur’ān (English Version of Tafhīmu’l-Qur’ān) Author: Sayyid Abul A’lā Mawdūdī Translator: Zafar Ishaq Ansari Publisher: The Islamic Foundation Dr Zafar Ishaq Ansari, th...
These days the blasphemy law concerning the defamation of the Prophet (sws) has become a subject of debate. The ‘Ulamā’ are unanimous in demanding the imposition of the death penalty on every person f...
On the one hand, the Islamic form of government is an aristocracy in that the individuals who comprise the government are elected on the basis of their piety and political acumen and, on the other han...
A detailed analysis of the economy reveals that the whole economic set-up of our country is based on great vice and evil. The foremost evil in it is the institution of Banking. Through this institutio...
The system on which the general system of education in our country is based is the legacy of the British rule in our sub-continent. It is the brain-child of a nation which still rules our minds more t...
The government should take the following steps to Islamise our society at the social and penal levels and to improve the existing situation in both these areas: AT THE SOCIAL LEVEL 1. All the institut...
Religious Parties in or society can be classified into three categories on the basis of their aims and objectives. The first category comprises religious schools of thought which have organised themse...
1. The rulers should be the servants of the citizens of Pakistan and their doors should always remain open to the public; they should live among the masses and with the same standard of living. All th...
The poise and balance of a society heavily depends on the poise and balance of the attitudes and tendencies of its people. Whenever human attitudes cross their natural limits disorder and discord resu...
In the history of human civilisation, there have remained only four ways for a particular ideology or movement to attain the position of political supremacy in a country: Firstly, the exponents of the...
