Only grand muftis were authorised to issue decrees and not semi-literate clerics who issued decrees after reading a few books being holed up in caves The Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar University has said that the State was the only authority to declare a jihad. “Groups like Daesh (the militant Islamic State) have strayed away from […]
Pakistan is among the few countries which contribute more than one per cent of its GDP to charity, according to the Stanford Social Innovation Review report. The contributions push it into the ranks of far wealthier countries like the United Kingdom (1.3 per cent GDP to charity) and Canada (1.2 per cent of GDP), and stand around twice […]
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has described those who forbid missing between two the sexes as “extremists” whose ideas “contradict the way of life during the time of the Prophet.” Salman, who is set to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, gave an interview to CBS News on Sunday. […]
“I always remember the innocent people of Kashmir in my prayers.” Imam-e-Kaaba Dr Saleh bin Muhammad Al Talib on Monday said he considers Kashmir a “part of Pakistan,” reports said. “I always remember the innocent people of Kashmir in my prayers,” Dr Al Talib told Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, during a […]
Muneer Baig The situation in Kashmir has forced many Kashmiris to leave their homeland in search of answers for their struggle as Kashmiris and as human beings aspiring for a better life. I left Kashmir and migrated to the United States in the early ‘90s. it was not easy, but there were not many options […]
The recent execution of Shia cleric and scholar Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr along with 47 others in Saudi Arabia triggered protests among Kashmiri Shias across the Valley. The protests prompted police action and curfew restrictions for several days in the Shia-dominated areas of Srinagar city. Some people saw Nimr’s execution by the Saudi authorities through […]
Fatima Chand I accepted Islam two years ago, offered the very first salat of my life 24 months ago. It refreshed my soul, mind and heart. I felt like a new person. Things began to make sense. My life seemed to be on a very different track from those around me, in terms of spirituality […]
She is just ‘she’. She doesn’t want to be named. She wants me to erase a part of her person. Another part was preyed upon when she was barely seven. Today she is 28 and a mother of a baby girl. For over 20 years, she has lived in the trauma of being sexually abused […]