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VOLUME 13 · ISSUE № 8
AUGUST 2003
شعبان 2003
— From the Editor · Dr. Shehzad Saleem —

August 2003

This issue contains 12 articles and 9 queries — scholarly writing, reader questions answered, and a continued record of the journal's ongoing concerns.

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Contents

12 ARTICLES · 9 QUERIES
— Articles —
01
Reason and Revelation
Dr. Shehzad Saleem · Qur'an
3′
02
Surah al-Baqarah (8-16)
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi · Qur'anic Exegesis
7′
03
Researcher’s Companion to Ghamidi’s Surah al-Baqarah (8-16)
Dr. Shehzad Saleem · Qur'anic Exegesis
5′
04
Pre-requisites of Nikāh (Marriage)
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi · Social Issues
11′
05
Some Types of Corruption in  the Text of the New Testament
Abdus Sattar Ghauri · Scriptures
13′
06
The Lesson I Learned
Jhangeer Hanif · Reflections
4′
07
A Letter to My Long Lost Relative
Saadia Malik · Reflections
6′
08
An Islamic Alternative? <br>Equality, Redistributive Justice, and the Welfare State in the Caliphate of ‘Umar (rta)
Shadi Hamid · Political Issues
16′
09
The Wind
Arub Saqib · Rhyme and Reason
2′
10
Rights of the In-Laws
Jhangeer Hanif · Responses
4′
11
Whither Jihād?
Jhangeer Hanif · Responses
5′
12
Foot prints on the Sands of Time …
Dr. Shehzad Saleem · Reflections
3′
— Queries —
Q.1Social Issues
"Status of Eunuchs"
— Tariq Haashmi
Q.2Hadith & Sunnah
"Must all Ahadīth be reconciled with the Qur’ān and the Sunnah?"
— Tariq Haashmi
Q.3Hadith & Sunnah
"Regarding the advent of Mahdī"
— Tariq Haashmi
Q.4Qur'an
"A Historical Error in the Qur’ān"
— Tariq Haashmi
Q.5Social Issues
"Rights of the Spouse’s Parents"
— Jhangeer Hanif
Q.6Jihad
"Is Jihād a Collective Obligation?"
— Jhangeer Hanif
Q.7Da'wah
"Influence of a Tablīghī"
— Siddiq Bukhary
Q.8God and Monotheism
"Why is ‘Love’ not a name of Allah?"
— Siddiq Bukhary
Q.9Political Issues
"Ombudsman in Islam"
— Siddiq Bukhary