بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وَاعْبُدُواْ اللّهَ وَلاَ تُشْرِكُواْ بِهِ شَيْئًا وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًا وَبِذِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْيَتَامَى وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْجَارِ ذِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْجَارِ الْجُنُبِ...
Religion is the guidance which was first inspired by the Almighty in human nature and after that it was given by Him with all essential details to mankind through His prophets. Muhammad (sws) is the l...
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وَاللاَّتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِن نِّسَآئِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُواْ عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعةً مِّنكُمْ فَإِن شَهِدُواْ فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىَ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَ...
Man, by nature, is a being who lives by instituting a government. The first manifestation of this took place when people decided that they would select chiefs of their tribes. After that, when these c...
Sūrah Nisā’ (1-14) بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُواْ رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالاً كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاء وَا...
The term ijtihād has originated from a Hadīth. In the opinion of the authorities, this Hadīth is broken ( munqati ‘). However, it is one of its sentences which has become a source of this all importan...
If, after the truth is conclusively conveyed by messengers of God, they and their companions are able to acquire political authority in some place, it is the verdict of God that there are only two sit...
Marriage is a contract in which it is the responsibility of the husband to generously provide for the expenses of his wife and children. He is required to deal with them in a way which is in accordanc...
Marriage is not just about bringing the physical relationship between man and woman within the bounds of law. It is a contract that lays the foundation of a family. This institution of family is an in...
Punishment for Blasphemy against the Prophet (sws 1 ) I The law for punishing blasphemy against the Prophet (sws) that is invoked in Pakistan has no foundation in the Qur’ān or Hadīth. Therefore, a pe...
Men have been known to keep beards. The Prophet (sws) too had kept one. If someone among his followers keeps it to express his affiliation to him or merely to follow his ways, then this indeed is a ve...
The Islamic law of inheritance is mentioned in the eleventh and twelfth verses of Sūrah Nisā’. In these verses, the Almighty has promised eternal punishment for those who have the audacity to change t...
When one hundred and twenty days pass after the conception of a foetus, aborting it is prohibited. After this period, the killing of the foetus is actually the killing of a human being which, accordin...
Insurance is a sort of contract for mutual help in which people pay a fixed amount in installments. The purpose is that if any of them is inflicted with losses relating to their persons or their wealt...
وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تَمُوتَ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ الله كِتَابًا مُّؤَجَّلاً وَمَن يُرِدْ ثَوَابَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِهِ مِنْهَا وَمَن يُرِدْ ثَوَابَ الآخِرَةِ نُؤْتِهِ مِنْهَا وَسَنَجْزِي الشَّاكِرِينَ (...
The sharī‘ah does not allow Muslims to sexually gratify themselves from any other individual but their wives. The Almighty has forbidden it, and categorically stated in Sūrah Mu’minūn that people who...
Amongst the various marvels of science and the facilities it has afforded humankind in the last two centuries one extraordinary thing is organ transplantation. Through surgery a defective organ of a p...
After the prayer and zakāh, the fast is the next important worship ritual of Islam. In the Arabic language, the word used for it is صَوْم (sawm), which literally means “to abstain from something” and...
In the exercise to form a sound understanding of the dīn, the Farahi School invokes three fundamentals of central import: a) The holy Qur’ān is the distinguisher between and the sole criterion to defi...
Man has an inherent sense of belonging to a nation defined by common colour, lineage, language, cultural tradition and geographical boundaries. All human beings are children of a single progenitor, Ad...
