This is with reference to the question and answer section in the June 2012 issue of Islamic Voice. In a reply to a question about where one should look during salaat, one of the options given is to look at the Imam. The Quran instructs us to lower our gaze in public. I am of the view that this can…
There is a general clamour among Indian Muslims that they are lagging behind on the development front. But few people can analyse the reasons properly. Open any Urdu newspaper and you will come up with at least four or five reports about mushaira or shamee- ghazal. International mushairas can be organized by Muslims in a jiffy, but the community does not have even district…
Dear Sir, The article titled “Natural Born Futurist” by Ziauddin Sardar (May 2012 issue) was highly insightful. I am sure that after reading such articles, Muslims will stop living in the past. This article should be given more publicity and I would appreciate if you can inform where I can get the book, “The future of Islamic Civilisation”. Haroon Shaikh, [email protected] Editor replies: The full article…
Muslim families have become very demanding about the looks of a girl or bride that they are looking for their sons. It is quite disheartening that even Islamic Voice is also adding more fuel to the fire. The matrimonial advertisements in your paper all mention “girl should be fair and beautiful.” This is absolutely ridiculous! Fortunately, Muslim girls are empowered today with education and values. A…
Veteran Khushwant Singh has pointed fingers only at Muslims stating that they are always at war. Singh has forgotten the massacre of Sikhs, how lakhs of Sinhalese were killed in Ceylon. The deadly warfare in Latin America, in Vietnam and Japan during the World War may be history, but this is reality and Singh seems to have overlooked it. The non-stop war between different non-Muslim…
On behalf of the Shillong Muslim Union, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Islamic Voice team for publishing our SMU news in the magazine in the month of April 2012. Sayeedullah Nongrum, MLA President, Umshyrpi College, Shillong.
In the future, we are not going to get any new ideas from the west “ all really new ideas are going to come from the non-western cultures. By Ziauddin Sardar I am not an easy person to pin down. I am several things; yet none of them. I was born in Pakistan but, as many Pakistanis would be eager…
