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Holding Pride in Ancient Science
More than anyone else, I am fairly certain in my personal assessment that Muslims and Hindus hold huge pride in their ancient achievements. Each one claims to be the genesis of modern civilization and root of all modern knowledge. Irony dies a million deaths when we see the state of affairs in both the Muslim and Hindu nation, holding pride in Camel Urine and Cow Urine respectively and discovering medicinal benefits in Zam Zam Water and Ganges Water respectively, yet not able to sort out public health issues in their respctive nations. Understand the fact that everything that we know today and study in science is not a product of…
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Excerpts from Maryam Jameelah’s “Islam Versus the West”
“From my Jewish textbooks I learned that Abraham was the father of the Arabs as well as the Jews. In these same books I read how centuries later when in medieval Europe, Christian persecution made lives intolerable, the Jews were welcomed in Muslim Spain, and it was this same Arabic-Islamic civilization which stimulated Hebrew culture to reach its highest peak of achievement.” (Islam Versus The West, Page 5) “Sayed Qutb points out that while the teaching of Christianity are confined to individual spiritual salvation and while Communism looks at human needs from a purely economic angle, Islam maintains that the soul cannot be seperated from the body and that spiritual…
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Excerpts from Karen Armstrong’s Muhammad – Prophet for our time
“The life of Prophet Muhammad was as crucial to the unfolding Islamic ideal as it is today. His career revealed the inscrutable God’s activity in the world and illustrated the perfect surrender that every human being should make to the divine.” “Some Muslim fundamentalists have based their militant ideology on the life of Muhammed; Muslim extremists believe that he would have condoned and admired their atrocities. Other Muslims are appalled by these claims, and point to the extraordinary pluralism and of the Quran, which condemns aggression and sees all rightly guided religions as deriving from the one God. We have a long history of Islamophobia in western culture that dates…
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Q&A: If Prophet of Islam preached peace and tolerance how come there are so many war mongers amongst Muslims who take cues from the same life?
If Prophet of Islam preached peace and tolerance how come there are so many war mongers amongst Muslims who take cues from the same life? A short answer: It is a questions that bothers many a people and we do need to consider why such is the case. Like any other social phenomenon there are many perspectives to be investigated. Let us begin with the Arab Custom of narrating tales. The pre-Islamic Arab society was a war torn community wherein a murder was remembered for generations and vengeance was sought for decades generation after generation. The Arabs would compose poems and ballads on this theme, narrating the tales of a…
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Seeking Knowledge
Knowledge seeking is to be done with dedication and pains. It can’t be gained to its optimum levels otherwise, nor is depth in understanding ever gained without pains and dedication. Knowledge once acquired is to be spread into masses, that is how teachers are born and that is how knowledge grows. Xuan Zang was one of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India some 1300-1400 years ago. Though we can’t be certain about the purpose of the visit, but we can be fairly sure that the purpose was seeking knowledge and education. His stay at the Nalanda Buddhist Monastery and taking with himself almost half a thousand Sanskrit manuscripts speaks…
Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment