Religion has caused many wars, but that doesn’t prevent the idea that all religions call to peace. Religions sometimes are the arms of peace and happiness not only to one person but to the whole country/state. Having war doesn’t always mean that peace is ignored,…
Essays on Islam
Islam has an estimated 1.9 billion followers, making it the second largest religion worldwide, reported by Pew Research Center. The word Islam is an Arabic word which translates to “submission” or “s This paper will explore its founder and its quests throughout history, practice of…
I was constantly struck by the dedication of the Arabs to their religion and how carefully they hold fast to the principles and customs set up by the Muslim confidence through the Quran, yet how unique they are from nation to nation. Nothing recorded as…
Since ancient times, all faiths, cultures and societies have aimed to live in harmony, sadly it has not been a successful attempt for every culture in the world. Living in harmony means being able to live in unity and mutual reciprocity, beyond creed, class, gender…
The present paper intends to first of all describe some of the iconoclastic attempts – rife in Indian ‘writing’ – that are made and mandated to dehumanise Islam and its followers, in order to qualify how Indian Muslims are marginalized. The paper begins with the…
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS and/or ISIL is an extreme violent Islamist group that has severely increased in the last decade throughout the Middle East. This group is also called Da’-ish in Arabic. The rise of this barbaric group…
Egypt is a country that links the African Continent with the Middle East. The history of the country dates back to the time of Pharaohs. In the country, more than 90% of the population is made up of Muslims. Most of the Muslims in the…
Revolutions have introduced about a number of the most radical differences in international records and politics over the course of the world history, over the past decade, numerous regimes have fallen and risen. The Arab world has had an ongoing reputation of dictators. Mohammed Bouazizi,…
The Islamic State was created as a self-proclaimed caliphate by the Sunni militants who reinterpreted Islam in a way that it served their international holy war. Their fighters engage in suicide missions across Europe, regardless of whether they were born in the Middle East, North…
The impact of Arabs and the spread of Islam in East Africa is vast. Africa was one of the first continents that Islam spread into Southwest Asia, this subject really involves or revolves around Muhammad who was a prophet and a founder of Islam born…
Being a Muslim and a staunch critic of child marriage in Pakistan, a few days ago, during the advocacy of marriage after 18, I came to know about some arguments from my social circle that majorly includes Muslims, Agnostics, and Atheists. Here, I will address…
Introduction Scientific knowledge is a very unique kind of knowledge that helped in making stunning investigations on how the whole universe behaves naturally, also the technology used in that learning process (scientific knowledge) was and still is amazing for the whole people, such as mobile…
The role of women in religion differs between each culture, with some allowing more freedom than others. In cultures, women are treated equally with men and in others there is the bare minimum treatment for the women. In Christianity, the main responsibilities of women are…
In the process of writing this project a number of existing relevant literary materials on the moral principles of Hijab would be consulted. The literary works consulted in the cause of the project include among others; Abu-sufyan ibn Abubakar “Al-Hijab the pride of the Muslim…
Christianity Common practices for Christians include: bible study, catechism, Christian baptism, Christian prayer, Christian vestments, confirmation, eucharist, fasting, monasticism, neo-pentecotalism, tithing in Christianity, Christian symbols, Reading Christian texts Christians believe that Jesus’ father was the Holy Spirit of God, making Jesus both full human and…
Over the past few centuries, mosques have become the heart of Islamic life throughout the world. They were built in order to deepen Islamic worship and knowledge, while also giving them the ability to deeply connect with Allah and have the opportunity to unify in…
Introduction In the nineteenth century, the preliminary eurocentric terms; Saracenic, Mohammedan, Moorish and Oriental architecture became one, Islamic architecture. The influences it had on other styles of architecture grew even more and made an evident difference in the Historical, Cultural and Religious buildings and artefacts….
An ongoing debate in Architecture: functionality or aesthetics… which comes first? In the 1st Century before Christ, Roman architect, Vitruvius, believed there were three main aspects of design: Strength, utility (functionality) and grace (beauty). Although he wasn’t of any major relevance, the architect’s philosophy continued…
Introduction Global history takes into consideration the development of societies, people and technology over time regardless of the trappings of borders defining nations with singular narratives. This is imperative as to why Orientalism is relevant in the consideration of Global History. The history of the…
India is a welfare state. Gender justice and equality has been a part of the Preamble since the beginning. To prohibit discrimination on the ground of religion, race, caste, sex etc. the state has made uniform laws for all matters other than a uniform law…
Syria located in the western Asia is a Muslim country and officially known as Syrian Arab Republic. Islam is the major and most followed religion in Syria involving 90% of Muslim population. Islam in Syria: Before the advent of Islam is Syria, Syria pre-dominantly was…
Introduction Mr. Ahmad had a fall at work consequently suffered from an intracerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Ahmad was declared brain-dead on his 3rd postoperative day after undergoing craniotomy surgery. Leaving his wife and 2 teenage children. His wife was informed by his doctor and transplant coordinator…
About 20 million people reside in the country Iraq. There are three major groups in Iraq The Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurds, Shiite Arabs. 62.5% of Iraqis are Shiites. All political leaders since the year 1968 are Sunnis. There is a small population of Jewish people…
Introduction The works of many terrorists around the world have made an imprint on world history but know one is as well known as Osama Bin Laden. The leader of Al Qaeda terror group organized and orchestrated terror attacked for decades across all stretches of…
In the Islamic World, the concept of Atheism is old as many important figures have believed in Atheism throughout the centuries. Nevertheless, the development of social media in our lives has taken over many young as well as old minds and they have been promoting…
No civilization throughout the course of history has passed without having some dark episodes and Islamic civilization was not any different. Acts of intolerance, discrimination, suppression and sometimes persecution of non-Muslims did occur in some periods of Islamic history. However, looking at the earliest periods…
What is Ramadan? As Holy Month of Ramadan is here, and I want to throw some light on what RAMADAN is all about. It is believed that Ramadan is month of QURAN. Quran was sent to Prophet Muhammad, May peace be up on Him during…
Introduction When an American goes to a Muslim restaurant to eat food in the daytime, and they see that it is closed. The first thing he would say is something like this: “Oh! Man, I forgot this month is Ramadan, and they are closed during…
Dhimma Dhimma is an Arabic word which means “treaty” or “obligation.” In the Prophetic tradition and Islamic legal literature, the term was used to mean “the obligation of Muslims in general and of Muslim rulers in particular to grant protection to non-Muslims living under their…
Introduction Pluralism is the essence of Islam. Islam has its own concept of pluralism derived from Quran and Sunnah. According to those principles, Islam highly acknowledges the inevitability of cultural and ethnic diversity. Compulsion is forbidden in the matter of faith. Islam believes in showing…
Introduction The non-western cultural ritual that I chose to research and write about is Ramadan. This is a ritual that is well known and is practiced by over 1.6 million Muslim people around the world. Specifically in places such as Malaysia, Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq…
The Crusades were a number of religious wars between Christians and Muslims. They were started because both groups wanted to keep a site that is considered sacred or holy to them. The Crusades took place between 1096 and 1291. These gory, dangerous, and ruthless battles…
A person can tell about the importance of gaining education from the above revelation of Quran and that is why it was considered as first priority for a person. Let us first discuss about some reforms for education made by great Islamic personalities before us:Early…
The Struggle to Build a Good Muslim Society When we talk about Islam, we are talking about a religion with a diverse history full of struggle, cultures & traditions, rituals and believe me, to follow those rituals is not everyone’s cup of tea. Islam has…
Overview Fear, hatred, or prejudice against Muslims is the definition of Islamophobia. On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 A.M., one of the most tragic events that occurred in the United States. From that day forward all U.S. citizens have remained impacted. The government implemented more…
Not once in modern world history, where human beings can live peacefully and harmony with each other. There is always going to be that conflict, that tension, those disagreements that will make a wall in between. One of the biggest conflicts that have been roaming…
Islamophobia. What is it? An irrational fear of people that are Muslim. However, all of us know that it is much deeper than that. The word ‘Islam’ translates to Peace, so really it means Peacephobia. Scared of peace? Just think about that for a second,…
Religion has caused many wars, but that doesn’t prevent the idea that all religions call to peace. Religions sometimes are the arms of peace and happiness not only to one person but to the whole country/state. Having war doesn’t always mean that peace is ignored,…
Islamophobia is not new to America but the single-story that Islam is a violent religion and all Muslims are terrorists has been a prevalent issue in the United States for over a decade now. Islamophobia is the fear of the Islamic faith and those who…
According to hagiographic traditions current throughout the Shia world, and particularly in the South Asia, eleven-year-old Fatimah Kubra, the daughter of the third Shia Imam Husayn, was married to her thirteen-year-old cousin Qasem at the battle of Karbala, Iraq, in AH 61/680. This battlefield wedding…
In this modern yet another challenging epoch, the issue of cleanliness has become one of the major concerns that constantly stir the public interest from all walks of life regardless of hierarchy, origin and religious belief. Cleanliness in Islam is part of one’s faith and…
Islam encourages people not only to work to be able to take responsibility of oneself, but also to provide service or benefit to the community. Islam teaches us to have balance in every aspect of life and therefore it is not expected of us to…
Public Interest and Welfare An Engineer should give Priority and utmost importance to public health during doing any work related to his profession. He must take all types of precaution before commencing any work so that public health and safety will be secured and no…
Today we live in a society where often times the people around us will judge us by the way we look and carry ourselves. As human beings, we naturally find ourselves categorizing different individuals and groups into certain sects, in order for us to have…
Arab life prior to the creation of Islam housed many flaws. Some of these flaws including, disbelief in Allah, the committing of various sins, and shirk. Shirk, being a sin that cannot be forgiven by Allah, was extremely common prior to the introduction of Islam….
Man is a believer by fitrah. Human nature is like a clear mirror that shows everything in front of it. However, the moment it gets raged, it loses its clarity, and thus does not reflect the objects, and only then the soul needs evidence. Therefore,…
Introduction Gulf women is edited by Amira Sonbol, an Egyptian professor at George Town university, Qatar. The book has 384 pages and was published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. It consists of an introduction and fourteen essays that discuss the history of the…
Islamic banking and finance predate any contemporary modern-day bank, or any banking system present in the world. The whole point of the following essay is going to highlight the Islamic banking finance and the key characters that played a role in bolstering the Islamic banking…
Hazrat Usman RA was the second cousin, notable companion and son-in-law of Holy Prophet SAWS. The 3rd Caliph among the Rightly Guided Caliphs of Islam. Born in the tribe of Banu Umayya of the Quraysh Tribe. One of the most important and early converts to…
Islam is a both a religion and a way of life. In addition to prescribing acts of good and bad, Allah Subhana Wa Tallah also presented a code of conduct in the form of Holy Quran and Holy Prophet (PBUH), pertaining to every sphere of…
Religion is a word that has been used between people since start of the humanity in the world. The word religion in Oxford dictionary means, “The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. ” Today in the…
Terrorism is sometimes understood because the use or threat of violence to additional a political cause. There’s no universally in agreement definition of act of terrorism creating it a troublesome object to quantify. Facts of act of terrorism across the world have hyperbolic markedly in…
Introduction We have been assigned to discuss about the role of Qiyas as a secondary source of Shariah. This is important to be discussed because the issue of whether the usage of Qiyas to be accepted as source of Shariah or otherwise is still debatable…
Zakat is an important aspect of Islamic structure, forming an integral part of social security system for humankind. It is the third pillar of Islam. The meaning of the word zakat means purity. Zakat elevates a person’s stature in eyes of Allah as well as…
Islam is taught in many countries around the world, no matter are they Christians, Jews, etc. Regarding the country’s history of Islam differs from each other, not overall but in some points. For instance, the differences between Shia and Sunni Muslims. They differ from each…
According to Fitrah arguments: In the fate of a person, Allah declared it as a special property. When this person knows, he knows all the principles that follow God, always in life. One becomes foolish in childhood, illness, the blessings of God, men and women…
In this paper I argue for a consistent equivalent punctuating pattern for translating al-waqf marks (pause marks) in the Holy Qur’an, based on the prosodic features of pauses as the Holy Qur’an is originally oral not written. The aim of this study is to examine…
Introduction Non-legislative associations, nongovernmental associations, or nongovernment associations, normally alluded to as NGOs, are typically non-benefit and once in a while worldwide associations autonomous of governments and global administrative associations (however frequently supported by governments) that are dynamic in helpful, instructive, medicinal services, open strategy,…
Masood-ud-Din, commonly known as Baba Farid, is one of those most revered sufi saints and poets in the world, especially in South Asia, who has kindled the light of love, peace, tolerance, humanitarianism, equality and respect in the abysmal darkness of extremism, hypocrisy, exploitation, hatred,…
Robert G. Hoyland did an excellent job narrating and interpreting the rise of the Islamic empire. In God’s Path was an incredibly well-written book– I found there was an equitable use of both Muslim and non-Muslim sources.Something Hoyland excelled at was his approach to writing…
Impact on the society Throughout most parts of Roger’s reign, Sicilian non-Christian communities were allowed to retain their traditions and worship rights in a tolerant atmosphere. Regarding Palermitan Muslims, contemporary chroniclers were especially affirmative of the existence of religious tolerance. Although the Norman historian Geoffrey…
Historians and chroniclers have always been intrigued by the unusual coexistence between Sicilian Muslims, Latins and Greeks in the 12th-century Europe amidst religious persecution fervour of the Reconquista and the Crusades. Historian John Julius Norwich even claimed there was a “seemingly effortless fusion” of various…
Abstract “The easier it is to learn, the more passionate will be the learner”This study is to show how even an “Android” application can incorporate many types of learning, to get attention on what might be observed as significant forms of learning, and to understand…
Islam. It is indeed a controversial religion but there are more about it than just being known as a religion which had been portrayed poorly especially by Western medias. After some research, I would like to choose to believe that Islam is a religion of…
Childbirth is one of the most important events in a woman’s life however, it is associated with a great deal of pain. The perception of pain is a highly subjective phenomenon and is dependent on the individual. A woman’s attitude toward pain and the decision…
Commonly perceived Contemporary terrorism, that has been associated with radical Islamist groups that have emerged in the twenty-first century has taken advantage of an increasingly globalised world to establish a dangerous network of radicalisation and violent extremism. Unravelling such a complex threat required an understanding…
Muslim Political Participation in the United Kingdom The degree to which an ethnic group is politically active and represented in their government is a hallmark indication of how integrated they have become. Thus, the more represented or influential Muslims in Britain and the United Kingdom…
There are many sticker that shows us how numerous individuals think Muslims are an elite, radical gathering that has a holier-than-thou state of mind towards non-Muslims. This thought executes another thought that Muslims are told to trust that Jews and Christians particularly are to be…
The Anti-American Fundamentalist There are many parallels between the author and the main character of the book “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, including the fact that they were both born in Lahore, Pakistan, they both continued on to attend Princeton University, and they both gained a lot…
A Muslim woman, Jamida K popularly known as ‘Jamida Teacher’ became the first Indian Muslim woman Imam to lead Jumma prayers. She led the prayers for a mixed group of around 50 men and women at the central committee office of the Quran Sunnath Society…
Islamic mysticism, both Sufism and Irfan, can be traced to have originated within the Islamic tradition. Its elements are divided among familiar terms of Islam: sharī’a, tarīqa, and haqīqa. Haqīqa being the end goal and the starting point, sharī’a. The middle stages are identified as…
Any genuine message that develops inside society out of the blue will seem peculiar and new. It will thusly be met with threatening vibe and objection. It will be at any rate questioned and viewed with doubt. Much of the time it will be censured…
Prior to the beginning of Islam, the Mecca, the Holy city of Arabian Peninsula, was the focal point of world exchange and viewed as a sheltered paradise for speculators and agents. The matter of cash changing was normal. Essentially, loaning cash on premium (Riba) was…
Aqidah is the most important foundation of Islamic civilization. Aqidah islam based on al-quran and as sunnah. Aqidah is taken from the word “al-aqdu” which means a bond or knot. Aqidah is defined as the firm belief without any wavering or doubt in Allah SWT….
Adoption as practised by some is a lie as we all know except the one who is adopted. In Islam, truth is of the greatest value even if it apparently is bitter. One can call his/ her nephew as beta with love. But the nephew…
Following is a summary of Prophet Muhammad’s life prior to Islam. Muhammad lived for forty years before the very first revelation, and 23 years after: Before Muhammad was born on the year 570 AD, an invasion was staged by king Abraha of Yemen, to destroy…
According to Freud and psychoanalysis, the reason of your nightmares should be hidden in your subconscious or in your childhood. However, I’m not a Freud’s follower, therefore I won’t write here about that. Nightmares have many triggers. Probably you are not aware of great part…
Why Islam is sufficient for everybody: I feel the best thing about Islam is, just follow Islam it is sufficient for everything because it is A guide to life. You fast for entire month of Ramadan and you know how a poor feels. Once you…
The first time Noor visited the Board of Imams Victoria, in Melbourne’s Coburg North, to apply for an Islamic divorce, she took with her an audio recording she had secretly made during one of her husband’s violent outbursts.” He was verbally abusing me, smashing doors,…
Religion as is dates back thousands of years. Throughout history, hundreds of religions have existed, some now completely obsolete, yet immortalized throughout history for what we know of it today. This analysis attempts to take a closer look at what the ancient religions of Ancient…
