This issue contains 6 articles and 2 queries - scholarly writing, reader questions answered, and a continued record of the journal's ongoing concerns.
Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. But many of the human rights activists in Pakistan will. So long as the hand is not masculine. We have al...
Introduction Sūrah Jinn forms a pair with Sūrah Nūh the preceding sūrah with regard to the subject discussed in them. Sūrah Nūh portrays the indhār of the Qur’ān and its consequences by narrating the...
The invasion of Kabul by the Taliban has opened a whole new chapter in the life of the Afghan people. The modus operandi adopted by them for the implementation of Islam may be criticised vis-a-vis 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...
When a person is overcome by material desires and cravings, he becomes negligent of his spiritual being and indifferent to the obligations imposed on him by his Creator. To help man in combating this...
What is the significance of the ‘Tarāvīh’, which the devout say in the Ramadān?
Recently a person threw acid on a film actress while seriously deforming her face. What is the punishment for such a horrendous crime?
