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An American author, Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949), once observed: ‘Reputation is what other people know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself.’
Reputation is the opinion…
The Sunday Guardian | August 20, 2023
If a misfortune befalls you, it is the fruit of your own labours. He forgives much. (42:30)
This verse of the Qur’an tells us that whenever a man is afflicted…
Writing in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the renowned Hindu scholar, Swami Vivekananda, had this to say about Islam:
“For our own motherland a junction of the great two systems,…
Abdullah ibn Umar tells us how the Prophet once took him by the shoulders and said: “Live in this world as though you were a wayfarer.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 6416)
Of our passage through…
OSWALD PEREIRA
From early in life, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan used to love to live in nature. Nature for him was a complete school. Nature also contributed greatly to the formation of his thoughts in…
According to Abu’l-Aaliyah, the Companions of the Prophet were at one stage of the view that no harm would come to them because of their sins, provided that they testified that there is no God but…
It is not uncommon for feelings to run so high over minor differences that what starts out as a tepid argument soon develops into a raging conflict. Two people, who at the outset had only been…
The Sunday Guardian | August 13, 2023
Ms Bapsi Sidhwa, a Parsi lady from Pakistan, is at present teaching at the University of Houston, Texas, in America. Her novels, written in English, are…
It is the elevation of the human condition to a plane on which the mind is focused on the higher, non-material realities of a godly existence. The opposite of spirituality is materialism, a course…
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