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On September 11th, 2001, four separate attacks on the United States were coordinated and carried out by an Islamic extremist terrorist group known as al-Qaeda. Four planes were hijacked by 19 different terrorists, with two of the planes flying into both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane flying into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the final plane crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks followed a growing unrest towards the western world and the USA…

sees that those lands are only a collection of masters and slaves. These countries are applying the prohibitions rather than to prevailing economic and social circumstances. In addition, they don’t receive its inspiration from the book of God and the Sunnah of his prophet but from the ruler’s ambitions and interest. In contrast, Al-Gazali mentions how Israel is proud with its religion.…

Modesty is additionally viewed as a critical piece of an imperative fraction of faith (Profet SWM). Without having faith on religious preaches and rites one cannot be firmly modest and to be steady on faith more than fifty catalysts work together; haya’ is one of those (Al-Bukhari, 1.8). The prophet reminds us that haya (modesty, etc.) is an essential part of one’s faith: “Faith consists of more than sixty branches and haya (it covers a large number of concepts which are to be taken together;…

Human trafficking is a global problem and one of the world’s most shameful crimes. This issue affects the lives of millions of people around the world and robs them of their dignity. Although the best- known form of human trafficking is for the purpose of sexual exploitation, thousands of victims are trafficked for the purposes of labour and domestic servitude. Due to the fact that human trafficking is quite prevalent in many Muslim nations, this has led to the belief that Islam as a religion…

struggle”. If one were to ask several muslims what their definition of the meaning of jihad they might get multiple different responses. What one 's interpretation of the meaning of jihad seems to play the biggest issue faced today. The Quran and Sunnah as noted by Esposito, “provide a theology for peace, for living in a world of diverse nations and peoples. They also provide guidelines on how to fight the enemy as well as how to fight against corruption and oppression” (29). He later goes on…

Islam is the submission to the will of Allah in all aspects of life. Shari’ah is known as the Islamic code and its sources are Al-Quran and As-Sunnah of the Prophet (s.a.w). Muslim society is an ideological society which is disparity from those founded on the basis of race, colour or territory. Freedoms of the Islamic society are actually limited by the commandments of the Omniscient Allah. 1.2…

Conception of Authority in Islam It is seen in the first surah in the Quran that supreme authority rests, “In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds,” (Al-Fatihah 1:1, 1:2). There is a coherence between authority and doctrine, where a doctrine consists of words, deeds, goals and means of attaining these goals as well as defining the relationship between the believers and their doctrine, (Yaqub, n.d.). However, there must…

Vegetarianism in Islam Citations from the Qur'an and the hadiths of companions and caliphs about the vegetarian people The first biographers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) show that he preferred vegetarian foods, saying that he liked milk diluted in water, yogurt with butter or nuts and cucumbers with dates. His favorite fruits, which were known to survive for weeks at a time, were pomegranates, grapes, and figs, and he liked a morning drink of dates soaked and crushed. He liked honey…

In both Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters were put in a situation where they were exposed to a different setting than where they came from and it interfered with their identity. Changez had trouble finding aspects from his home, Pakistan to keep with him in his new country, America. The sisters struggled to balance characteristics from Dominican Republic and America because of the huge difference in the…

Therefore, cultural relativist argument is normatively vacuous and without content because it is used to legitimatize their violation of human rights and avoid solving harmful practices such as torture. States that encourage the language of culture relativism over the universality of human rights laws promote unequal and oppressive patriarchal structures. Fundamental rights of individuals which are denied due to cultural relativism differ from state to state. This is certainly the case when it…