Asghar Ali Engineer
IN a recent plane crash in Pakistan, a Hindu youth who was a member of Youth Parliament, Pakistan, died and...
Published 13 Aug, 2010 12:00am
RECENTLY two women judges have been appointed in Malaysia in the Sharia court but strangely enough their appointment...
Published 30 Jul, 2010 12:00am
THE conflict in Kashmir seems to be unending and the way it is being handled by Indian armed forces, especially the...
Published 25 Jul, 2010 12:00am
A TOP police officer has written to me asking for the Quranic basis of the belief that those who became martyrs will...
Published 16 Jul, 2010 12:00am
AT a conference held at Oxford University last month it was encouraging to see many reformist Islamic scholars from...
Published 02 Jul, 2010 12:00am
THE word jihad`s literal meaning is to strive for anything good, including striving for peace and the welfare of...
Published 18 Jun, 2010 12:00am
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh recently informed parliament that caste will be included among the queries in the...
Published 13 Jun, 2010 12:00am
AFTER the recent fatwa from Dar-ul-Uloom, Deoband, (some deny that a fatwa was issued) saying that a Muslim woman...
Published 04 Jun, 2010 12:00am
RECENTLY the Darul Uloom, Deoband, issued a fatwa saying that if a woman works in any government or public office...
Published 21 May, 2010 12:00am
INDIAN Muslims, according to the Sachar Committee report, are slipping below Dalits in terms of economic and...
Published 16 May, 2010 12:00am
A GENERAL perception in the West is that Quranic teachings discourage progress and are incompatible with a modern ...
Published 07 May, 2010 12:00am
THIS year marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of Indian National Congress. Many people in India, ...
Published 25 Apr, 2010 12:00am
`JIHAD`, with its imbued wrong meaning, became a notorious word in the West after 9/11. Terror now has an...
Published 23 Apr, 2010 12:00am
IN a poetic recital on TV in Saudi Arabia recently, a woman poet Hissas Hilal burst out against the strict control...
Published 09 Apr, 2010 12:00am
MANY scholars maintain that Islam and the state are inseparable, thus reducing Islam to a political ideology. This...
Published 26 Mar, 2010 12:00am
MOST of our ulema insist that Sharia law is divine and hence there is no question of any flexibility in its...
Published 12 Mar, 2010 12:00am
MUSLIMS everywhere celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) with great devotion and reverence. But often it...
Published 26 Feb, 2010 12:00am
MANY non-Muslims think that Muslim women are oppressed, forced to wear the veil and confined within the four walls ...
Published 12 Feb, 2010 12:00am
ARE reason and faith antagonistic or complimentary? It depends from what perspective you look at them. The 19th...
Published 29 Jan, 2010 12:00am
This is for the first time that women would be penalised for wearing the burka. Earlier France banned Muslim girls...
Published 15 Jan, 2010 12:00am
