For years we have heard and have become accustomed to the misfit calls to Allah in the post match ceremonies. Allah gets more mention than the player responsible for winning or losing the game. Why bother with this ceremony after every match when the man of the match for every game is Allah?

Clowns like Zakir Naik have made a joke of both Science and Religion. With such gibberish and taka-tak mix of religion and science, they are only adding to the preilious state of Muslims. The golden age of Muslims, of which these Islamists take pride in, was not a product of finding lame scientific excuses out of Quran but was a result of serious dedication to Islamic/Quranic message to seek knowledge, to unleash the universe and its hidden patterns. The likes of Al Razi, Ibn Sina and Al Farabi did not crammed page numbers and their contents, neither did they attempt to make scientific advancements by wasting their time trying to make up “scientific explanations” out of Quran. There should be no doubt that the modern world and all of us are indebted to the Muslim scientists who contributed to literally every field of Science – they took up the work done by Greeks and took it to a new level resulting in Muslim Golden Age. However, at the heart of this scientific advancements was unflinching dedication to critical thinking and a burning desire to know, to uncover the universe. The likes of Zakir Naik only make

To be fair to men, let’s get back to Zakir Nai’s principle: “Thus the only two options before a woman who cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to become public property.” Now that we have concluded that it’s actually men who outnumber women and not the other way around, this suggest there will be millions of unmarried men looking for women to marry. The only option for them would be either to become “public property” – which of course we don’t want to happen, therefore, we should allow polyandry i.e. one woman marrying multiple men.

Its common to hear the argument that the world would be immoral; people would become completely unethical turning into animals if they start being skeptical on religion. Its believed that the source of morality is one’s religion. True, that religions are a source of inspiration but the belief that once religion fades away from the society, it becomes immoral, shatters once you look at Scandinavian states or other parts of Europe like UK. Those societies despite of a dramatic increase in people leaving religion are more moral in nature than societies which are more …

The parable that follows was originally composed by the greatest of all Sufi poets, Jalal ad-Din Rumi (d. 1273) and recounted by Idris Shah, the Grand Shaykh of Sadarna.

A Persian, a Turk, and Arab and a Greek were traveling to a distant land when they began arguing over how to spend the single coin they posessed among themselves. All four craved food, but the Persian wanted to spend the coin on angur; the Turk, on uzum; the Arab, on inab; and the Greek, on stafil. The argument became heated as …

I found this article published around one a half year ago, this morning and found it to be an interesting read, specially the second half. Based on Dr. Ali Shariati‘s work, Asghar Ali tries to unfold the truth behind the Shia-Sunni clash in Iraq – a Shia majority country where members belonging to these two communities have been living peacefully for so long. The author, relying on the work of Shariati, calls this conflict to be a clash between power seeking Tashayyu’-e-Safavid and Tassunun-e-Ummavi and not to be clash …

While scanning the electronic versions of the daily newspapers , I came across the following image. This is from a local market of Mingora where the Taliban have gained significant power to decide the way of life for others. They have banned the entry of women in the market !

‘Women are not allowed in the market,’ reads a banner displayed at the entrance of a market in Mingora. Taliban have banned the entry of women in markets and ordered the killing of women who violate the ban. Most shop owners …

If I am to answer what developed the most in the last quarter of twentieth century, I would say Islamic extremism. Agree or not but IslamoFascists have been in direct or indirect conflict with the west especially in this period. The radical Islamists believe that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. The ideology factor becomes most critical to keep recruitment, funding and support in all forms, for this conflict, coming. This ideology is a fiercely fundamentalist form of orthodox Sunni Islam, but one …