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Human depredations on the sea have led to extinction of several large sea animals such as whales, sharks, rays, dolphins and turtles. Some of the animals such as whitetip sharks, American sawfish or the once “common” skate, numbers are down as much as 99 per cent. Most of the fishes the human would like to eat are vanishing fast. Number of Puget Sound’s salmon have come…
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…
Q: A new faction amongst the Muslims has emerged that advocates our Muslim brothers to leave home for three days, ten days or forty days for Allah’s sake. Is it right to leave our homes in order to seek Allah’s blessing or not? Please throw some light on it with special reference to Hadith. Muneer…
As I bade good-bye to Father Korko and the other guests, one of them told me that he had gone to many ashrams set up by Hindus, Jains, and Christians. But he was eager to know if Muslims had set up any ashram which was open to seekers of spirituality. Are there any Muslim ashrams?…
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was on his usual round of the market to get some household needs. He stopped at a shop where a woman customer was engaged in collecting some grocery items. Purchases over, the lady opened the purse to pay for the shopped items. The shopkeeper refused to accept the money and told her: “Go away, no bill, no money. How could I accept money…
There was an old man who went to a goldsmith and said, “May I use your scales to weigh my own gold?” Goldsmiths keep very sensitive scales. The goldsmith replied: “Sorry, sir, I don’t have a sieve.” “Don’t make fun of me, ” said the man: “I asked for your scales, not a sieve.” “I don’t have a broom either,” the goldsmith said. “Come on,”…
The Prophet (Pbuh) always recommended his followers to start the night with a clean body. He used to say: “Purify your bodies with ablutions”. Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) prepared to receive every new day by engaging in worship in which he was keen that everyone in his household should join. It gives a different arrangement of priorities, looking at life from a new angle.…
Bangalore: A book on extraterrestrial intelligence in the light of the Holy Quran by a city-based Islamic scholar has been published by an American publishing house. Titled Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Amazing New Insight from Quran has been brought out by CreateSpace, a subsidiary of the Amazon. com. Running into 286 pages, the book was penned by Mr. Sayeedur Rahman Nadvi, who heads the city based Furqania Academy. A graduate from…
Meeting Sajeeda uplifted my spirits. She was working towards giving Muslim women their right to a dignified life, and there could be nothing more positive than this! By Nigar Ataulla A week of searching for “positive” news from the “Muslim World” for the front page of the journal I work for had exhausted me totally, draining me of…
Muslim en masse favoured parties representing underprivileged classes. Muslim representation in Uttar Pradesh Assembly hasrisen to the all time high figure of 68 in the elections held during January-March 2012. The last Assembly had 56 Muslim MLAs. The representation this time has reached 17 per cent, very close to being proportional to the Muslim population in the state i.e., 18 per cent. Of these, 42…
