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Loss of Ummah - Is Agriculture the culprit?

Faraz Masood   Oct 22, 2009   interacts: 40

In different parts of the Islamic world different movements arose in order to re-create similar Ummah that Prophet Muhammad once created in Medina. The question

Islam and Modern Times: Is There a Case For Reinterpretation?

Raza Habib   Oct 16, 2009   interacts: 322

For the religion to become functionally effective and progressive rather than static and time trapped, it has to be reinterpreted metaphorically and the mantle of

Bubble of a Believer

Tahir Qazi   Aug 28, 2009   interacts: 323

Spirituality is mystification of feeling, a subtle peg of believers’ subjectivism and just another name for unknown. There is nothing wrong about it as long

A Letter to God

Saima Shah   Aug 23, 2009   interacts: 62

Light of my heart, help me speak so that hearts can talk. Those hearts that wear a shield of iron around them, those hearts who

A Non-Muslim Appraisal of Islamic Sharia

Dost Mittar   Jul 15, 2009   interacts: 122

Like the Pashtoon, the Sikh did not want to give too much freedom to his daughter; he too did not want her to go out

Am I a Skeptical Muslim?

saeed qureshi   Jul 3, 2009   interacts: 293

The story of Islam from the rift on the succession of the prophet, the end of the Muslim glory in Spain in 1492, to the

Science and Enlightenment: East and West

Ali Hashmi   Jun 19, 2009   interacts: 116

‘Why the West craves Materialism and the East sticks to Religion’, the essay is an unabashed (and ill informed) defense of religious orthodoxy with some

She Needs to be Saved

Hiba Tanvir   Jun 17, 2009   interacts: 33

And we'll all be guilty.
Guilty for doing nothing to find her, guilty for not challenging her abductors, guilty for remaining silent

The Shrinking Boundaries of Sikhism

Dost Mittar   Jun 1, 2009   interacts: 194

The attack on a Sikh temple in Vienna brings into focus the tensions that are being created in the community in the name of maintaining

Speculations on Female Sexuality and Religion

Abdul Arif   Apr 30, 2009   interacts: 53

Confronted with an attractive female, compounded by our lust and resulting rejection, is this fear, guilt and anger at what we cannot have possibly manifests

The Gentle Power of the Sufi Tradition

Murad A Baig   Apr 21, 2009   interacts: 473

Although Sufis are now widely considered to be a Muslim sect, their history goes back to long before the advent of Islam.

If God is the Same then Why is God Different?

Saima Shah   Apr 19, 2009   interacts: 90

The answer to this question came after many years of searching.

The Virulet Virus of Wahhabi Intolerance

Murad A Baig   Mar 22, 2009   interacts: 156

Wahhab seems to have understood the tremendous power of hatred to unite and inflame its followers in an intensely determined war against its declared enemies.

Fitna : The Proverbial Dutch Foot

Sairah Ali   Mar 2, 2009   interacts: 17

Response to Geet Wilders Speech 2008 on Dutch Movie, Fitna

Humanity at a Crossroads

Khalid Sohail   Feb 2, 2009   interacts: 342

Humanity is passing through an adolescent phase as is at a crossroads. All of us have to make certain choices. We can choose the path

A Day At The Tempe Mosque

Sidra Omer   Nov 26, 2008   interacts: 2

In 1984 a wealthy student from Saudi Arabia studying at ASU brought a lot of funds from his family to

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