Hadith

Today, the radicalization of Islam has further instilled this distrust and dislike of all Muslims. Ironically, extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS are huge proponents of Islamophobia. These groups use the tactic of preying upon the frustrated and vulnerable minds of young Muslims who have experienced systematic and institutionalized oppression in both the United States and Europe for centuries. When your people are oppressed for hundreds of years, anger and resentment is obviously going…

3.6 WHAT WE DO AND WHAT WE HAVE TO DO?? We can learn step by step to come up the upper level of organization in the Takaful Company. We struggle a lot to come at the first or a successful salesperson or businessman. In a Dawood takaful, an applicant apply for the job and selected as a Trainee Consultant can improve their job skills and learn more and more from their senior workers and manager about their jobs and work under it as an effective manner. After some period of their job as a good…

This verse, pregnant with mystical symbolism, further expands the theme discussed in the preceding and the fourteenth verse of this granth. The said two verses speak of the transformation of the self from its base state to a state of true and perfect awareness, while this verse, using the metaphor of the metamorphosis of a larva into a fully-grown wasp, speaks of the extinction of the individual self and attainment of oneness and identification with the Nūr of the Satguru. It is a biological…

According to Islamic perspective, freedom of expression is allowed and permissible to everyone in this world regardless of their status, gender and belief as there is no Quranic verses that prohibit it. In Islam, freedom of expression can be in terms of criticism,thought,consultation speech and others. However there is some point where Islam restricted the freedom of expression when it refrain any truth from being revealed or the speech might be offensive in a way that caused hurtful. This is…

The difference between Holy war and Jihad is little known to the common community. The truth is revealed when you really try to compare the two. With a little open mindedness, you will be able to see that there 's a lot more difference then you would have originally assumed. To the unaware, Jihad may mean “holy war” but this is far from the truth. In all reality, the translation is literally means “struggle” or “striving” in Arabic. It can refer to the inner struggle for a Muslim or believer…

Yes, I agree that the knowers’s perspective is important in the search of shared knowledge until a point where emotion and reason are creating a bias on your perspective. In that, a knower’s perspective regards the individuals personal knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge regards how the individual gains/seeks shared knowledge. So to what extent does the knower’s reliability shape the pursuit for shared knowledge? Religion is typically a devotion thing creating emotion. Natural Science however…

Homosexuality is a controversial issue in many religious traditions. In the early stages of coming out, rejection of religious tradition is common; but in later stages, when identity acceptance and pride are reached, the need to integrate one’s homosexual and religious identities can became paramount. Sexuality and spirituality are intricately linked. A positive appreciation of one’s sexual orientation is essential to spiritual and psychosocial development. Despite contemporary perceptions that…

Naseebah bint Harris, who is also known as Umm Attiya, and Zaynab Al-Ghazali who was an Egyptian activist during the 1900s. Aishah bint Abi Bakr is known for her extensive knowledge for Islam, being a social and military leader, and for narrating many hadiths. She was married to the…

Much criticism lately has been given towards Islamic Law, otherwise known as “Sharia Law.” The criticism stems from the harsh penalties for acts that in many other legal systems around the world, like common law, would not be crimes. Sharia is especially harsh on women, people of other faiths, and homosexuals. Substantive Common, Civil and Criminal Law Most developed countries have some sort of Common Law, which governs criminal law, and civil law. Many counties ' legal systems are based…

For Muslim men, coming out as gay in North America can be complicated by cultural differences. Participants described eastern cultures as more permissive of homo-sociality, particularly expressions of physical intimacy and emotional closeness. Muslim men from eastern cultures appeared to have a heightened awareness that process of constructing of a gay identity that is constructed homo-social expression into an internal and social identity is more of a western process. This may be why some…