World Environment Day 2022 We keep talking about the sayings of our Prophet (Pbuh) about preserving the environment and kind treatment of animals, birds, and trees. Let us, in our own individual capacities, follow what we say? “Believers, why do you preach what you do not practice?” (61:2) The 2022 World Environment Day campaign #OnlyOneEarth…
I was following IV for more than 25 years. I don’t know about others, but, IV along with Young Muslim Digest, has made a great impact on my life. Whenever I met youngsters, I advised them to follow IV and YMD for the development of their personality as a true Muslim and good human being.…
The summer of 2020 will remain unforgettable globally, when much of the world went into a ‘lockdown’ due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic affected the smooth functioning of Islamic Voice, too. The magazine, that had shone like a star in the media skies for 34 long years, starting in 1987, came to a temporary…
Praying inside a mosque is not a serious enough issue to approach the apex court. It is more in the nature absence of logistics required for segregation of sexes. The Supreme Court has been approached by a Muslim couple from Pune seeking women’s entry into mosques for worshipping. The couple has pleaded that Islam and…
Contours for the electoral battlefield for the 2019 Lok Sabha election are not yet distinct, though the polls are due in three months. Despite the current incumbents having lost lot of their sheen and claim for power a second time, the Opposition is still an amorphous lot. There is enough realization that the BJP (and…
The outcome of the Assembly elections in five states across the country has made it abundantly clear that the grip of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has considerably weakened in the Hindi heartland and the party is no longer in the race in non-Hindi states. However, the straws in the wind do not carry a…
Several Ponzi firms from Bengaluru have defrauded investors in the city, state and neighbouring areas of hundreds of crores of rupees by luring gullible Muslims into the net through devious means. A host of fly-by-night operators who had found a convenient haven in the city have closed shops with their owners having decamped with the…
Fake news being spread through social media to foment communal hatred and stigmatise particular groups has now become a major issue across the world. Here is an example of such fake news. According to firstpost.com, “Following the Amritsar train tragedy, in which at least 61 people lost their lives during Dussehra celebrations [“¦] a number of…
The Supreme Court had invalidated the practice of triple talaq through a verdict last year. But the NDA Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hell bent on making the practice a criminal offence, rather than the civil one. The Ordinance making it a non-bailable offence issued by the President of India is a…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan failed in his first test of making Pakistan an inclusive society when he rescinded the appointment of noted economist Mr. Atif Rehman Mian as the new Government’s economic advisor. Khan buckled under pressure from Islamic fundamentalists who wanted the order of appointment to be withdrawn merely because Atif Mian belongs…
