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Modern Classics on Islam
For the complete list of Modern Classics Click Here. [1st Draft – Published on 21st August, 2022; Updated: 03 November, 2022] Hadith Misquoting Muhammad – Jonathan AC Brown Hadith – Muhammad’s Legacy – Jonathan AC Brown Hadith and Sunnah – Ideals and Realities Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of hadith Transmission – Recep Senturk Hadith Literature: Its Origin and Development – Muhamad Zubayr Siddiqi Studies in Early Hadith Literature – Mustapha Azami Hadith Methodology and Literature – Mustapha Azami History After the Prophet Lezley Hazleton Islam – A Short History by Karen Armstron No God but God Reza Aslan Oxford History of Islam by John L Esposito Administrative and Cultural History…
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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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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…
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Culture, Religion and the Modern Muslim Man
The rising influence of the Western ways, visible through minuscule injections in our society of foreign conceptions like materialism, skepticism, modernism, feminism, agnosticism, invariably ending in atheism, hedonism and nihilism, has to be seen as a common Muslim’s revenge on the conception of religion and culture amongst us which has, in many ways, moved away from the realities of life. When hurdles are placed in the path of the natural conception of life, a conception of the life in line with fitrah, life rebels, seeks revenge. When the natural desires and legitimate endeavors of man are suppressed, his nature puts up a resistance that invariably ends up in defiance. This…
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Building a Progressive Society
The world today stands at that vulnerable point where Fascism and its parallel ideologies are being appreciated. Politicians, political parties, reformers, modernists, conservatives, traditionalists are all equally riding waves of propaganda and are winning elections or public support. Humanity is being manipulated to accept as reality what may be poles apart from actually being so. Myths are taken as truths, fake news and propaganda make rounds on social media networks like Facebook and Whatsapp every day. What is more worrying is that people with “understanding” having undergone proper modern education from schools and colleges and Universities are being part of it. What then is wrong with the society, or the…
Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment
