Organised by Al Huda Islamic Institute, Mira road, Navi Mumbai, on May11, 12 and 13, 2012. ANAM: Before my life was full of whispers, I used to talk and judge within myself only. I was totally in my own world and I haven’t realized it till today. I am shocked now to find my inner voice controlling me. Alhamdulillah, now it is…
The day you understand that desire as such is going to fail, comes the turning point in your life. An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a beggar. He asked the beggar, “What do you want?” The beggar laughed and said, “You are asking me as though you can fulfill my desire!” The king…
Tina and Sonu were neighbours, and they lived in what was once a quiet, cheery locality in Bangalore. But that was before Bangalore was transformed into just another big, ugly, chaotic and suffocating Indian city. They were now in their early teens, but Tina and Sonu could still fondly recall being pushed in their prams by their mothers down the road to the neighbourhood park. How empty…
Q: The Prophet (Pbuh) has spoken very highly of those who bring up orphans and said that they will be rewarded generously by Allah. Yet we see in society that orphans, particularly if they do not have known parents, are not accepted in the society, much less in homes. Fostering parents may feel it necessary to inform their family members about the…
Around 400 Muslim candidates around the country have cracked the IIT-JEE, the competitive examination to qualify for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. The number is though far lower than what the community would deserve by way of proportional representation, it is still encouraging because those who made to the final list were…
Question: The Quran is the book from Allah and has no contradictions. Kindly clarify as to why at one place the Quran says ‘One day equals to 1,000 years’ while at another place its says ‘One day equals to 50,000 years in the sight of Allah’. Md. A. Khadir, Gulbarga-585101 Time is a Perception, Not an…
The Union Government has constituted five regional subcommittees to monitor development and supervise the implementation of the Minority related welfare and development schemes. The committees will tour the 90 district covered under the Multi-Sectoral development Programme (MsDP) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs and assess the progress of the development programmes for which the Union G o v e r n m e n t has allocated huge amount of funds under the 11th Five-year…
TRS Chief takes up the cause of Urdu and writes to Sibal Known as a sole Telugu politician with great command over Urdu language, Telangana Rashtriya Samithi supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao has jumped into the ongoing battle of Urdu and non-Urdu speakers in Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU). In a letter to Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal Rao has urged probe into the alleged irregularities…
A Round Table Dialogue was held in Bangalore on April 28 on “Is India a Failing State: Is there an Alternative?” It was organized by the Karnataka Institute of Public Administration and was presided by Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah, former chief justice, Supreme court of India. Justice V. S. Malimath, former judge of the Karantaka High Court and…
Q: Please mention the period and places where the six imams who compiled the most authentic collections of Hadith lived. Md. A. Khadir, Assistant Engineer, Gulbarga-01 andnbsp; The six most authentic collections of Hadith by the six famous imams are together called Sihah Sittaor ‘the authentic six’. First among them is Muhammad bin Ismail al-Bukhari, the author of Sahih Bukhari. He was born…
