Devotional practice, spiritual striving and ascetic discipline are all for the sake of purifying oneself, not because God needs them. By Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh The essential message of Sufism, a message holding true for all sufis, is this; to remember God and serve others. The purpose of remembering God is to focus solely on Divine…
Pune: The Indian Muslim Entrepreneurs Network (IMEN) will hold its first conference on February 7 at Sun N Sand Hotel between 8-30 am and 5 pm. According to Tauseef Malik, the conference aims at fostering the entrepreneurial spirit among the Indian Muslims in order to contribute to the national economy. Malik who is the initiator…
Mercy, forgiveness, justice and ihsan are core values of Islam and they should be brought into the dialogue. By Edwin Rodrigues SJ In early January, the New Delhi-based Interfaith Coalition for Peace (ICP) organized a lecture by Prof. Ataullah Siddiqui of the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, on the topic “Christian-Muslim Relations:…
In January 2016, at the invitation of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, 250 of the world’s eminent Islamic leaders convened in Marrakesh, Morocco, to discuss the rights of religious minorities and the obligation to protect them in Muslim-majority states. The conference was organized by the Moroccan Ministry of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs and the Forum…
Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. We need to take time to listen to these whispers and take heed. There were three ships which were nearby when the Titanic sunk. One of them was known as the Sampson. It was 7 miles away from the Titanic and they saw the white…
The numbers of people without a religious affiliation are increasing in some countries. But some demographers project that the global population will be more religious, not less, for one simple reason: religious believers tend to have more babies. The growth in the religiously affiliated population is “largely about having relatively high fertility rates,” Conrad Hackett,…
A goat sent to a Russian safari park as live prey for a Siberian tiger has instead befriended the big cat and the two have become inseparable friends. Amur the tiger and Timur the goat now sleep in the same enclosure in the Primorsky safari park outside the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, and the…
Bearys Global Research Triangle (BGRT) has been adjudged the Smartest Office building in India by the “Times of India and Honeywell Smart Building Awards 2015″. The award was conferred on Syed Mohamed Beary, CEO and MD, Bearys Group, by the Union Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi.
14-year-old Afghan girl, Aziza Rahimzada, has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize. At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school, and cajoled authorities into providing tap water to a camp housing more than 100 families. Now she has…
The Karnataka State Urdu Academy launched its first mobile Urdu Library in Bengaluru on September 28. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah flagged off the library on its maiden trip behind the stately Vidhana Soudha, the headquarters of the State Government. The Library will tour the State and enable the Urdu book lovers to purchase the Urdu books…
