Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is among the five fundamental pillars in Islam. The month is received as a period of celebrating religious activities. People read the Holy Quran in this month and offer special night prayers known as “Tarawih”. The Holy Quran describes that a particular night in Ramadan is better than a thousand months in Surah al-Qadr: Verse 3. The concept of Islam is that the month of Ramadan should be used by Muslims to train themselves to perform good deeds and improve the…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

life after death. Generally, Islam and Judaism have similar and different facts. Islam is a religion that was founded by the prophet Muhammad and it’s a monotheistic religion. Muhammad is also the proclaimer of the Quran which is the Islam’s holy book. The Quran is a book that was gradually made over a period of 23 years from the archangel Gabriel to Muhammad. The Quran says the literal words of God because it was written by him. In the Quran there is something called ‘the Five Pillars of…

Muslims make up roughly 24% of the global population, numbering in at about 1.8 billion people. Although the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) does not have anywhere near 1.8 billion militant members, their main objective is to establish a caliphate through terrorist attacks and propaganda. Aside from having terrorist groups championing its core messages and morals, Islam also has the most intrusive and restrictive legal systems in place today, and it is known as Sharia Law. Sharia Law…

Transforming our Community In truth while our community is ethical and honorable we still, like many others, have to face difficult challenges and problems. The test here is to be able to conquer these challenges the way the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) taught the Muslim Ummah to throughout his life. If the Muslim communities allow these issues to defeat them, they will suffer more in this life and possibly in the hereafter. Overcoming the hardships that come our way will only help make the community…

Since July 4, 2003 a deep-rooted antipathy towards US has been held by Turks. On that day Turkish Headquarters in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Northern Iraq was exposed to attack by US forces. As a result of it, 11 member of Turkish Armed Forces were forcibly put sacks on their heads and taken out handcuffed. They were retained for 60 hours interrogation and then released. This incident was recorded as The Hood Event in the history. The Hood Event caused the biggest crisis in the partnership…

The Holy Quran is a compilation of the verbal revelations given to the HolyProphet Muhammad (saw) over a period of twenty three years. The Holy Quran is the Holy Book or the Scriptures of the Muslims. It lays down for them the law and commandments, codes for their social and moral behaviour, and contains a comprehensive religious philosophy. The language of the Quran is Arabic. Besides its proper name, the Quran is also known by the following names:alKitabThe Book;alFurqan (The Discrimination):…

Road to Mecca is wrote by Muhammad Asad who is the main character of this book. Muhammad Asad previously known as Leopold Weiss, born on 2 July 1900 and died on 20 february 1992. He was a jewish-born Austro-Hungarian journalist, traveller, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar. He was one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century. By the age of thirteen, young Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, other than his…

I have interpreted patriarchal hegemony and Diaspora through multiple perspectives presented in both novels Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) and Season of the Rainbirds (1993) in the light postcolonial feminist theorists in order to support my arguments. The structure of Pakistani society has been derived through the construction of gender roles in obedience to the Islamic law. Both novels challenge the idea of Muslim society dominated by men in former colonial situation. The picture of Patriarchal…

In an episode of TVO’s The Agenda, British author Mark Steyn was welcomed to share his views and join in a debate opposing three Muslim law students who wished to share their dissatisfaction with both Steyn and Maclean's magazine. Steyn holds very controversial views regarding the quickly changing demographic of the Muslim population in western countries that the law students believe are based upon racist generalizations. Steyn’s work has even been published in the popular Canadian magazine,…