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The
Holy Quran "Sura 62" (Congregation-Friday)
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THE LIFE OF IMAM HUSAIN (a)
by late Dr. Syed Haider Hussain Shamsi
( Excerpt from his book, " And The Message Continues --The Imams of the Ahlul
Bayt " ). This book can be read online in the Book Section of this site
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Allama Iqbal's Tribute to Imam Hussain (a), the grandson of the
Prophet (s)
Dr Muhammad Iqbal (1877- 1938) known to the world as the Poet-Philosopher of
the East, devoted his life to awaken the Muslim Ummah and to make it pursue
the path of knowledge, jihad, and martyrdom.
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Status of Muslim Societies Around the World
Dr.M.I.H. Farooqi
There was a time when Islamic Civilization was considered as the most
advanced, tolerant and progressive in the world. This was mainly because of their
accomplishments in almost all disciplines of knowledge. After the16th century,
situation changed drastically. Learning and inquiry remained no more the motto
of the Muslims, with the result that today they occupy the lowest position on
the ladder of the civilized world. They are educationally backward,
scientifically marginal, politically insignificant and economically poor. This is the
present status of the entire Ummah in the comity of nations.
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The Need to Cultivate Ethics
Benefits and the Necessarily (Excerpt from the
book al-Siraj by Husain ibn Sadiq al-Bahrani
English translation by Yasin al-jibouri (The Lantern on the Path to Allah
Almighty ).
Be informed, may Allah assist you, that the Prophet
(a) has said, ‘I was sent (to mankind) in order to perfect the virtues of ethics’ (Bihar
al-Anwar, Vol. 68, p. 382).
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Pakistan's religious tragedy.
Dr Muzaffar Iqbal
Pakistan's true tragedy is not its endless raw violence, political chaos, or
military-mullah confrontation. The real tragedy is the betrayal of its leaders
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America's best-selling poet
is not Billy Collins, whose folksy, humorous work
won him two terms as U.S. poet laureate. It's not Robert Frost, the four-time
Pulitzer Prize winner whose reading at John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration is
still studied by students. ("The land was ours before we were the land's
...") And it's not Edgar Allan Poe, whose "The Raven" has been called "the
best-known poem in the Western Hemisphere."
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The classical American paradigm vs. The classical
Islamic paradigm
by Robert Crane
(Excerpt from his Paper read at a Conference in Khartoum)
The Western paradigm is not modern secular liberalism but what the Founders of America called traditionalism, which they borrowed
from the century long Whig movement in England. This was to bring
out the best of the past. The American revolutionaries
unnecessarily staged a revolution because they were too impatient.
This impatience killed the movement in England that gave rise to the
Great American Experiment.
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NEEDED -- SPIRITUAL HEALERS WITHOUT BORDERS
[By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry -- January 2 , 2005]
What do you say to a friend who is the only surviving member of her
extended family, a total of more than 50 persons? Just what do you say?
Do you express gratitude for her survival... or sorrow for her
unimaginable loss? What words can truly speak to such immeasurable shock and grief?
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Bizarro Umma
by Omar Gatto
Welcome to the Bizarro Umma, where down is up, forward is backward, and wrong
becomes right.
The Bizarro Umma believes in the three bizarre illusions. The first illusion
is that going down is actually going up. The second is that the way forward is
actually backward. And the third exchanges right for wrong.
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Sakina--the beloved daughter of
Hussain (a)
by Okasha Naqvi, 15 NJ
"Baba!" I cried my heart was pounding loud enough for the soldiers to hear,
my body shivered with thundered fear.
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Justice
by Rumi
What is justice? To put a thing in its right place.
What is injustice? To put a thing in its wrong place.
Nothing is vain that God has created,
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