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Nepolean Bonaparte – Quoted in Christian Cherfils BONAPARTE ET ISLAM (PARIS  1914) “I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of Qur'an which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.” M.K.Gandhi, YOUNG INDIA, 1924 "...I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and his own mission. These, and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every trouble." YOUNG INDIA, 1924 Lamartine - Histoire de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol II, pp. 276-77: "If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding r...

By:  Edward Jay Epstein  Date:  9 Jan 2014 ​ The death of President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan and his top deputies in August 1988 altered the face of the country's politics in Pakistan in a way in which no simple coup d’état could have done. Pakistan is the only country named after an acronym: “P" stands for Punjab, “A" for Afghanistan, and the “K" for Kashmiri. It once reflected the dream of a trans-Asia Islamic state; only the “P" actually became part of Pakistan when it was carved out of British India in 1947 as a haven for Muslims. General Zia was mindful of this dream when he organized a military coup in 1977 and seized power. Zia moved almost immediately to placate the mullahs in his country by pursuing a policy of Islamization  and reinstating the law of the Koran. In an extraordinary balancing act, he also strove to build an ultra-modem military machine, complete with nuclear arms, and also to use his intelligence service, the lSI, to wage war ...

April 24, 2014  By  Rabia Chaudry   At 21 I married a man five years older than me.  The second time around, at 31, I married a man five years younger than me.* Eight years into our marriage, it still sends little shock waves through people when I mention this. There are sometimes oooohs and aaahhhs, eyes get bigger and rounder, and I can almost see folks wanting to high five me and slap my husband on the back for biting the bullet and marrying an older, divorced, single mom.  I have, no joke, been asked at least a dozen times how I managed to pull this off. But a decade ago when he proposed to me, I didn’t bounce off the walls. I advised him to speak to his elders and family, which he did. I was mature enough to know that marrying into a South Asian family meant actually marrying the family, and without their blessings there would likely be no blessing in the marriage.  So he dutifully approached his parents, armed with the story of  Khadi...

(Isaale Sawaab) M. Aqib Farid Qadri 21 Safar 1424 (23 April 2003)  In the name of Allah -- the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. At the outset please know, that in Islam, death is not perceived as an end of life. It is just the end of the worldly existence as we witness it, and the beginning of a new existence, in which the soul experiences a new world called "Barzakh." The soul may experience this new life with or without its original body, according to its own rank allotted to it by Allah the Almighty, the Supreme. There are too many proofs from the Holy Qur'an and Hadeeth (Holy Prophet's Traditions) regarding the above, and warrant an extensive article on the same. But that is not the question here. The question that some people ask is that if a person is dead, can we increase its status or decrease its torment by conveying rewards of OUR deeds It is the consensus of the Sahaba, the earlier Ulema, and the latter ones that the above is (a) Effective and ...