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Volume: 2 | Issue: 2 | April 11, 2011

Current Uprisings in the Arab World: A New World of Islam has Begun to Emerge By Dr. Syed M.I.Andrabi There is a huge uprising in the Middle East; a region which was thought to be docile as far as political protests and demonstrations are concerned. West-established and sustained status-quo in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East is falling apart. A historic process of change in the Muslim world in general, and Middle East in particular, has been firmly …Read Full…

The Guidance The divine word, “All praise is due to Allah”, is a sort of training to the servant – a training without which he could not know how to declare the praise of Allah because the servant cannot fully comprehend the acts, deeds and creation of Allah(SWT). (We are continuing with the translation and commentary of the first Sura of Quran, namely, Sura Hamd/Sura Fatiha. In the previous issue the first verse was taken up, and in this issue the second and third verses are explained) …Read Full…

The Worldview of Tauhid-3 By Murtadha Mutahhary Every path and philosophy of life is based on a belief, outlook, and value system vis-a-vis being or on an explanation and analysis of the world. The kind of conception that a school of thought presents of the world and of being, the manner in which it contemplates it, is considered the intellectual foundation and support of that school. This foundation and support is termed the world view. All religions, customs, schools of thought, and social philosophies rest on a world view. …Read Full…

Hassan Hanafi* on Globalization, Civil Society…. By Dr. Hassan Hanafi Globalization[like ‘Middle East’] is also another label from the same kind, expressing the power relationship between the East and the West after the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. Globalization is not an essential concept but an existential given, not a substantial factor but an accidental fact. …Read Full…

Healing of Hearts On Lowering the Gaze There is nothing more gainful than lowering one’s gaze, for the sight is not lowered from things, which Allah has forbidden unless the witnessing of majesty and glory has already come to the heart. The Commander of the Faithful was asked what could help in lowering one’s gaze. He said, ‘Submission to the power of Him Who is aware of your secret. The eye is the spy of the hearts and the messenger of the intellect; therefore lower your gaze from whatever is not appropriate to your faith, …Read Full…