Violence erupts when anger goes unchecked. In life people have undesirable experiences on an almost daily basis: this is an integral part of our lives and it is what builds up a kind of suppressed…
It was the fourth of November, 1847. The servant entered the room of his master, a Scottish doctor, to find him lying face-down on the floor alongside two of his colleagues. They appeared to have…
It is earnestly claimed that religion has been rendered old-fashioned and redundant by modern civilization. But what actual contribution has western civilization made to humanity? New modes of travel…
Chapter 61 (Ranks―Al-Saff) of the Quran presents to the believers the Christian example as a model worthy of emulation. This can be understood with reference to two events from the history of…
PRESENT-DAY Muslim scholars and intellectuals generally think that the West has a certain agenda vis-a-vis the ‘Islamic world’, and that it is pursuing that agenda with full force. To cite just one…