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The
Holy Quran (Translated
by Abdullah Yusuf Ali )
40. THE BELIEVER (THE FORGIVER [GOD]
)
In
the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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Ha Mim |
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The revelation of
this Book is from God, Exalted in Power, Full of Knowledge,- |
40:3 |
Who forgiveth sin,
accepteth repentance, is strict in punishment, and hath a long
reach (in all
things). there is no god but He: to Him is the final goal. |
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THE
LIFE OF IMAM HUSSAIN (a)
by Dr. Haider Hussain Shamsi
(an excerpt from his book, " and The Message Continues".
DURING THE
TIMES OF THE PROPHET
The birth of second grandchild made the Prophet (s) very happy. He
came to the house of Imam All and his beloved daughter Fatima and named
the newborn Husain.
It is quoted by many narrators that the Prophet (s) often used to carry
his two grandsons on his shoulders. When people remarked on how much
he loved his grandsons, he used to say, "Hasan and Husain are the two
princes of the youth of paradise." People also quote from him as
praying to Allah by saying "O Allah, befriend those who befriend them
and be the foe to whoever designs to hurt them."
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This
is our heaven - or hell
by Karen
Armstrong
Saturday October 18, 2003
The Guardian
The Bishop of Durham has recently suggested that
a belief in heaven or hell is not a core tenet of Christianity. This will
be shocking news to those who imagine that the chief function of religion
is to give us intimations of immortality. Human beings are the only
animals who have to live with the knowledge of their inevitable demise. We
are also meaning-seeking creatures, and as soon as we fell out of the
trees and became recognizably human, we created religions at the same time
as we began to produce works of art, in order to convince ourselves that,
despite the crushing burden of our mortality, our lives had intrinsic
meaning and value. What could be more consoling than the knowledge that
death is not the end, and that we will enjoy a richer and fuller existence
in the hereafter?
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SPEECH
BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA, THE HON. DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD, AT
THE OPENING OF THE TENTH SESSION OF THE ISLAMIC SUMMIT CONFERENCE AT
PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA ON OCTOBER 16, 2003
1. Alhamdulillah, All Praise be to Allah,
by whose Grace and Blessings we, the leaders of the Organisation of
Islamic Conference countries are gathered here today to confer and
hopefully to plot a course for the future of Islam and the Muslim ummah
worldwide.
2. On behalf of the Government and the
people of many races and religions of Malaysia, may I extend a warm
welcome to all and everyone to this Tenth Session of the Islamic Summit
Conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia's administrative capital.
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The
Future of Political Islam
by Graham E. Fuller, Palgrave MacMillan,
(an excerpt from his book with above title)
INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS POLITICAL ISLAM?
How does it act in the world? What challenges does
it pose to the world, and what challenges does it face? And finally, where
is it headed? These are the fundamental questions
addressed in this book.
These questions became a whole lot less academic
with the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, which suddenly brought Middle Fast politics home to Americans
with a vengeance. What is in many ways a struggle within the Middle East
had burst out of its confines to affect everyone. The East and the West
are now just beginning a long process of sorting out the repercussions
that touch upon the nature of entrenched and ineffective Middle Eastern
regimes, their Islamist oppositions, Western hostility, and the presence
of terrorist groups feeding off all these problems.
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Rumi's
Page
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THE FIRST MUSLIM WOMAN
NOBLE PRIZE WINNER
Shirin
Ebadi
" An Iranian human rights lawyer who fell foul of her
country's conservative clerics has won the Nobel peace prize, in what some
see as a rebuff to the Pope, who was heavily tipped to win the prize.
A lawyer and activist who has been imprisoned by the theocratic
authorities and threatened by hardline ideologues, Shirin Ebadi is the
first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to win the prize.
"As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer and activist, she has spoken
out clearly and strongly in her country, Iran, far beyond its
borders," the awards committee said in the citation yesterday.
In Rome, the decision was seen as a humiliating rebuff for Pope John Paul
11.
His fellow Pole, Lech Walesa, said: "It's incredible. It's
unbelievable."
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I
had a dream
by Okasha Naqvi, 13 years
New Jersey
I
had the strangest dream
not long ago
let us see if you notice the moral
my dream had meant to show
I was treading through the woods
the breeze brushing against my face
a voice had begun chanting
my name from place to place
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Muhammad
Marmaduke Pickthall
A Servant of Islam by Abu Ali Hadhrami
He was born William
Pickthall in 1875 in London, to an Anglican clergyman, and spent his
formative years in rural Suffolk. He was contemporary of Winston Churchill
at Harrow, the famous private school. During intervals from living a
sedentary life in Suffolk, Pickthall traveled extensively in the Arab
world and Turkey. In 1917, Pickthall reverted to Islam and soon became a
leader among the emerging group of British Muslims.
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Ramadan
2004
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Tale of a few lectures
By M. Shahid Alam
Five Ivy League colleges decide to invite a Muslim sage to talk to them
and after much deliberation, narrow their choice to Mullah Nasruddin.
Two years after
September 11, 2001, when the righteous indignation of Americans at the
attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon had cooled a bit, five Ivy
League colleges decided to invite a Muslim sage to talk to them about why
such horrible things were done to Americans.
After much
deliberation, the five colleges narrowed their choice to Jalaluddin Rumi
and Mullah Nasruddin, two Muslim sages best known to Americans (it does
not mean that many Americans have heard about these sages). In the end, it
was the Mullah who won out, since he was thought
to posses a keener mind on all matters mundane.
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