Main Highlights
Volume: 2 | Issue: 1 | January 27, 2011
Religious Extremism is the biggest internal threat to Islamic Movement
By Dr. Syed M.I.Andrabi
Extremism has become a part of the modern day political vocabulary, but most often the word is used, rather misused for political purposes. It is because of this gross misuse of the word that the underlying concept is either totally misunderstood or least understood. Actually one would tend to disregard the need to understand the underlying concept, simply because there is nothing the word really stands for; it is simply the political motive of the user that determines the meaning of the word.
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The Guidance
Everything must begin with the Name of Allah; what is not for His Person must perish, and is in vain. People often take the name of one of their great and powerful personalities at the time of doing or beginning a work. By this association, it is believed, the work would achieve success, greatness and blessings; or that it would be a memorial to keep the named one’s memory alive for ever. This is also observed in naming a child, a project, a house or an association – they give it the name of a deeply loved or highly respected person, so that his name would continue in this form;
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The Worldview of Tauhid-2
By Murtadha Mutahhary
Although the philosophical world view lacks the exactitude and definition of the scientific world view, it enjoys an assurance and has none of the instability of the scientific world view. The reason for this is that it rests on a series of principles that are in the first place self-evident and undeniable to the mind, carried forward by demonstration and deduction, and in the second place general and comprehensive (in the language of philosophy, they relate to that by virtue of which the being is being).
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The fragility of India’s rule over Kashmir: A simple question paper becomes a security threat!
By Ajaz Khan
Kashmir has been reeling under illegal occupation for the last 6 decades. The corridors of power in New Delhi along with the puppet regimes in Kashmir over the years have turned this paradise simply into a walking minefield wherein even a lecturer lands up in the lockup for just setting up a question paper for an examination.
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Healing of Hearts
Bondage (u’budiyyah)
The roots of conduct have four aspects: conduct with Allah, conduct with the self, conduct with creation (i.e. people), and conduct with this world. Each of these aspects is based upon seven principles, just as there are seven principles of conduct with Allah: giving Him His due, keeping His limits, being thankful for His gift, being content with His decree
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Letters To The Editor
One glimpse of the Editorial on the cover and you had me hooked. The first issue of ‘AL Mizan’ was simply brilliant. I totally enjoyed my trip down the magazine because each and every article was so good. Editorial turned out to be its soul and how nicely it offered new insights into Obama’s deal with India and the role that is being played by US stooges such as Saudi Arabia.
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