Category: World Today

American economist Robert Samuelson recently made an interesting observation about the American society in his Newsweek column: “America’s glories and evils are tightly fused together.” Quoting sociologist Seymour Lipset, he asserts that America’s economic vitality and progress come from the same source as do crime, family breakdown, inequality, and vulgarity. Freedom and individualism have fired… Continue reading Reason and Revelation by Khalid Baig

Taken from “The Life of Muhammad”  by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, translated by Dr. Ismail Ragi A. al Faruqi Irving and Islamic Determinism Washington Irving, one of the greatest writers the United States of America produced in the nineteenth century, is a real credit to his people. He has written a biography of the Arab Prophet… Continue reading Islamic Civilization and the Western Orientalists

If there is a phrase that can describe the world today, it has to be “Competing in Sin!” Many Muslim governments, groups and individuals have taken an un-Islamic path and are trying to do what non-Muslim governments, groups and individuals are doing. It is a competition in sin and Muslims are losing. About fourteen hundred… Continue reading Competing in Sin

 This article is an analysis of the state of the rulers and governments of the world today. Allah T’ala says in the Holy Quran,     إِنَّ الدِّينَ عِندَ اللّهِ الإِسْلاَمُ وَمَا اخْتَلَفَ الَّذِينَ أُوْتُواْ الْكِتَابَ إِلاَّ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءهُمُ الْعِلْمُ بَغْيًا بَيْنَهُمْ وَمَن    يَكْفُرْ بِآيَاتِ اللّهِ فَإِنَّ اللّهِ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابِ    … Continue reading Rulers and Governments

2007-06-02 As-Salamu alaikum to all MuslimsGreetings of peace to all. When we look at the letters of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) sent to various rulers, we find that he mentions verse 3:64 in many of them. The Prophet also gives a stern warning to the rulers that if they refuse his message of accepting Islam,… Continue reading A Lesson from the Letters of the Prophet (s.a.a.w.)