Archive for November, 2013

Parents from all walks of life have, at some time, been asked questions about Heaven from their children: “Where is Heaven?” or “Is Heaven up in the sky?”
Where is Heaven? It is a question that was easily answered prior to the development of advanced scientific knowledge. The answer was as simple as it was primitive: Heaven was up above, while hell was below.
Today, with the modern understanding about the physical universe, that question about Heaven is not so ...

In The Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The day of Thursday, 15th Muharram, A.H. 1283 (May 30, 1866), was that blessed and auspicious day in the Islamic history of India when the foundation stone for the renaissance of Islamic sciences was laid in the land of Deoband. Seeing the simple and ordinary manner in which it had been started, it was difficult to visualize and decide that a Madrasah beginning so humbly, with utter lack of equipment’s, was destined ...

A number of difficulties will beset any presentation of Muslim understandings of the Trinity. Not the least of these is the fact that these Muslim understandings have been almost as diverse and as numerous as those obtaining among Christian scholars themselves. It is true that medieval Islam knew much more about Christian doctrine than the doctors of the Church did about Islam, for the obvious reason that Muslim societies contained literate minorities with whom one could debate, something which was ...

Since the height of the feminist movement in the late 70’s there has been a magnifying glass placed over the status of Muslim women. Unfortunately, the magnifying glass that has been used is an unusual one. Unusual in the sense that it is very selective about which items it will magnify; other items it will distort to such a degree that they will no longer look familiar. I remember once reading in an “in depth” article about the lives of ...