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Women and Success
A woman cannot be forced to pursue goals by her husband or any other human. They are free to make a choice and it is this free will that they will be held accountable for on the day of judgement.
Women’s rights and discrimination against them
Islam has played an important role in advancing women’s rights throughout history, yet a lot of work is still left which needs to be done and in order to make sure that there is an equal treatment of women and they are being treated fairly in all aspects of life.
SHARIAH: THE WAY OF JUSTICE
The Shariah is an integrated homogenous whole. Once one understands its basic concepts, objectives and framework, one cannot but conclude that it is capable of creating the most human and just society, a peace and blessing for mankind. Difficulties only arise when critics try to measure the ocean of divine knowledge, wisdom and justice with their own thimble of pedestrian criteria and standards.
China’s Population Conundrum: Less is no longer good
How Beijing responds to these challenges – or fails to – will go a long way to determining the future course of this economic giant, with far-reaching ramifications for the rest of the world.
Pakistan poised to emerge as Energy, Trade, Digital Hub
Pakistan offers access to hard infrastructure such as the Karachi, Gwadar, and Port Qasim seaports, as well as soft infrastructure, for example, an extensive free trade agreement with China which, over the next ten years, will provide for very low to zero tariffs for nearly all goods manufactured in Pakistan.
Alcohol, the Mafia and Superiority of Islamic Law
The secular Prohibition in the US didn’t have the desired effects, yet it gave rise to the mafia, whereas the Shari’ah has been “prohibiting” alcohol for centuries without ever witnessing any kind of rise of a criminal class like the mafia.
Taking stock of Pakistan’s current landscape and her future
The mutual accusations of political parties and suspicion of the impartiality of the judiciary on the basis of certain decisions of the judiciary is also a very worrying aspect of national life. As a result of this, even those constitutional institutions, which were looked at with hope and thought that at least justice would be possible from there, are now being subjected to open public criticism.
Qur’an-burning: Europe struggles to draw lines
Given these very clear anti-Muslim views, Paludan’s repeated act of burning the Qur’an is driven by Islamophobic hate. Book burning in this context “becomes symbolic murder, or symbolic destruction”.
Opinion: Jamaat-e-Islami’s role in international relations
This is a summary of the original paper published by Council on Foreign Relations titled “International Relations of an Islamist Read more…
Why are American soldiers reverting to Islam?
The conversion stories of American soldiers to Islam while serving in Muslim-majority countries should be considered as the best advertisement for the religion of peace…