The Centre for Peace and Spirituality was established in New Delhi in January 2001. Being a non-political organization, as its name shows, is to cultivate the values of peace and spirituality. A non-…
A society untroubled by strife is the principal prerequisite for progress of all kinds. However, the task of ridding society of conflict and ensuring that it remains peaceful begins with the…
What is religion? The essence of religion is spirituality. Religion is in fact another name for spiritual science. Whereas other sciences are external in nature, religion is a science that studies…
All human beings, according to Islam have been created by one and the same God, and for this reason they belong to one great brotherhood. All being descendants of the same progenitors, they should…
Zakat, or the alms-tax, is one of the five basic tenets of Islam. Its payment is obligatory, at the minimum fixed rate of 2.5% per annum, on all wealth that is subject to growth. It takes the form of…
There are three religions in the Semitic family: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In historical order, Judaism comes first, Christianity second and Islam third. Common to all the three religions is…
A group of people subscribe to the notion that Ramazan is the month of Furqan; that is, the month of victory. According to their way of thinking, victory becomes certain if Jihad, in the sense of war…
The second Caliph, Umar ibn Khattab, often used to express his sense of disillusionment about people he had come to like, when, on further acquaintance with them he discovered them to be idle. “On…
Although Islam permits divorce, it lays great emphasis on it being a concession, and a measure to be resorted to only when there is no alternative. Seeing it in this light, the Prophet Muhammad said…
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