The USA is witnessing a surge in gun violence as the gun purchase rate has reached its highest level in 2020 and 2021, with an estimated 43 million guns purchased at a time when the rate of gun deaths also hit the highest records. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 4,222 […]
The world is divided. It is our task to unite it and establish peace and harmony. At present, the UN consists of 206 listed states, of which 193 are member states, two are observer states and 11 are other states. Of these, there are 191 states whose sovereignty is undisputed, while the sovereignty of the […]
Three doctrines divide human civilization and destroy the unity of mankind. Racism The first is racism, to differentiate between black and white people. This is completely unreasonable. Human beings are basically one regardless of color. Their limbs are basically the same. Their Creator is the same Creator. It is said in the Holy Qur’an that […]
As Canada reels from yet another Islamophobic attack, some three years after the Quebec City Mosque massacre and after revelations about the abuse of indigenous children at residential schools, the latest horror is eerily familiar. I remember a few years ago, walking in the center of the city I grew up in. One sunny afternoon […]
On the Ninth Day of Dhul-Hijjah, 10 A.H. (623 A.D.), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), in his last sermon (Khutbah) in the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat, gave some guidelines to all of humanity unequivocally and concisely. One of these was to follow two things: the Qur’an and his path, the Sunnah. He (peace be […]
As Muslim parents protested outside Batley Grammar School after a teacher showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad – one noticeable feature of the reporting has been the frequent updates concerning a petition allegedly set up by a group of students at the school. From 10,000 to 20,000 signatures, and now more than 60,000, the petition […]
For this year’s International Women’s Day, we have a lot of groundbreaking achievements by women around the world to celebrate. Kamala Harris made history by becoming the first black, first South Asian American and first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. Kim Ng became the first woman and first female Asian-American general manager in Major […]
The upcoming International Women’s Day recently got me in a bind after I impulsively agreed for a virtual discussion online. Questions like — who is a modern woman, how do you think women can be empowered etc. are not easy for me to answer. More so because my views are slightly in variance with the […]