New Literature for a New Era

Main Articles & Books | 11 reads

Faith is a risk either way. Whether you believe in God or you don’t believe in him, the final outcome is always uncertain.

That is so, no matter how much True Believers deny it is so. [...]

Added: Jan 26, 2012 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 90 reads

Muslims should be remembering him every moment of their life, because their success in this world, as well as their salvation in the next world, is tied to it. Says the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam: “No one can claim to be a believer unless they love me more than everything and everyone in this world, including themselves” (paraphrase).

What kind of an IQ does it take to figure out that when you love someone more than anything and anyone else in this world, you would be remembering and thinking and talking about that person all the time?

Non-Muslims should be remembering him as much as they can because they owe him a great many of the blessings, privileges, freedoms, rights and dignities that they enjoy today, including the right to freely choose their own God; to freely choose their entire belief system – sacred or secular; to be able to communicate with God directly through personal as well as ritualized prayer; to be able to worship God any day, anywhere, both formally as well as informally, both privately as well as publicly; and without the intermediacy of a specially designated or ordained or anointed religious or “holy” person. [...]

Added: Sep 14, 2006 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 401 reads

Did Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, perform any miracles of his own – like many of the other major prophets from earlier times, God bless them all?

Yes, he did. Of course he did. Absolutely, positively he did. And below I list a few of them. [...]

Added: Feb 21, 2009 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books | 23 reads

If you realize that everything you have is a gift to you from God Almighty, then, every time you open your mouth, what right do you have to say anything other than Alhamdulillah – meaning, “Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, God, Thank You!”?

And do so, not only with your mouth and with the bottom of your heart, but with every cell, sinew and pore in your body? [...]

Added: Jan 24, 2012 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 70 reads

Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, came into this world in the 7^th Century. He changed that world, from the way it was to pretty much the way it is today.

That means a lot of the things that you see in the world today, and you think they are all good, and you like them, chances are many of them are traceable to the teachings and legacy of Prophet, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.

What I am about to say here is not an expression of my faith as a Muslim, but a simple statement of empirical truth. That means anyone anywhere can take any of what I am saying here and subject it to a Truth-Test of their own. [...]

Added: Jan 18, 2012 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 147 reads

“Islamist” is just another racial, ideological and political slur that the enemies of God use to insult Islam and Muslims.

They must make sure their official websites respect the integrity of the term “Muslim” and abstain from referring to themselves and other Islam-loving Muslims as “Islamists.” [...]

Added: Jan 16, 2012 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 57 reads

Much water has flown down many a river in the so-called Middle East since a cowardly and spineless Ben Ali of Tunis stole the wealth of the Tunisian People and ran away to hide in a rent-free mansion in Jiddah nearly a year ago.

The expectation was he would do the needful: run tanks over the protestors and turn Tunis into a vast Golgotha, full of Muslim gore and crushed bones. Like the Algerian military and its foreign Colonial Masters had done in the 1990s with the innocent Algerian Muslim masses. [...]

Added: Jan 8, 2012 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books | 51 reads

In this world, there is truth and there is falsehood. One is from God; the other is from the Devil.

God not only speaks the truth, he is the truth. He is, in the language of the Qur’an, Al-Haqq: The Truth.

Also, in the language of the Qur’an, truth is Haqq and falsehood is Baatil.

This is eternally etched in heaven and earth – and on the face of every grain of sand, blade of grass and molecule of water.

On earth, this equation was spelled out most crystally 1400 years ago and never left it since.

Hence the way of the “righteous,” the good people, then, is truth: speaking the truth and acting on it.

The way of the wicked, on the other hand, is falsehood. It is the way of the Devil. [...]

Added: Jan 8, 2012 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books | 51 reads

Humanity was sick, Islam came to heal it.

Humanity is back to being sick again. It needs Islam, once again, to make it well and whole.

It needs the Qur’an.

Allahu Akbar, should that alone not wake up human beings today to the truth of Islam – to the fact that this Islam could only be from Allah?

And that this system of Islam could not by any stretch of the imagination be a human concoction?

Added: Jan 7, 2012 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books, Special Articles | 88 reads

Many of us confuse reality with religion. That is why it is important for me to explain how Islam is not “religion” but reality.

Islam is Al-Haqq. Translation: Reality.

Islam is divine, from beginning to end. Religion is man-made.

Religion is presided over by priests and pundits. Islam has no priests or pundits. Only scholars who may choose to be students of Islam.

That is why Islam is reality, from God Almighty.

And that is also why I am not a “Religion” writer – just because I choose to write about Islam.

Nor am I a “Faith” scholar, as some people may think.

I am a student of Islam, Muslims and the World. And that is what I write and speak about.

And that means everything that there is, was or can be: now or forever; here, there and everywhere else.

For, that is Islam. [...]

Added: Jan 6, 2012 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books, World Day of Qur'an | 206 reads

World Muslims and non-Muslims must celebrate 12^th Rabi’ul Awwal, 1433 – 5th February, 2012 – as World Day of Qur’an for Universal Male-Female Literacy.

And they must do the same thing consistently every year thereafter – on every 12^th Rabiul Awwal.

And there is a simple and yet a most powerful and convincing reason for doing so: Because it was the Qur’an that first called for universal male-female literacy.

The Qur’an did so 1400 years ago – by asking everyone everywhere, male as well as female, to read.

That is one of the greatest miracles of the Qur’an – and the very first one, if you look at it that way. [...]

Added: Dec 22, 2011 | Read Full »

Voice of the West | 54 reads

The battle of wits between the advocates of Faith and Skepticism never advanced much beyond the argument that Hazrat Ali, Radiyallahu Anhu, put forward 1400 years ago.

Hazrat Ali wrote a little couplet in which he said this – he was a great poet and literary figure by the way, among so many other things:

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Added: Dec 22, 2011 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books | 66 reads

People often have questions about the way God does things. Many good people do.

And it is perfectly all right for them to do so.

At least from the Islamic point of view it is.

God, in the Qur’an, not only allows humans to ask questions, he even encourages and challenges them to do so.

So, there are people who do not understand how a loving, good, just, fair and compassionate God can allow bad things to happen in this world if he is really in control of everything that happens.

How can a Good God permit, watch and preside over Evil?

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Added: Dec 21, 2011 | Read Full »

Main Articles & Books, Voice of the West | 189 reads

George Bush (Jr.), former president of the United States, once said he was the decider. Well, I have news for him.

In the real world, the world in which all decisions are made and count, the only decider is Allah – God Almighty.

It is God who makes and moves every single particle in this world, individually as well as in any combination thereof.

So, ALL decisions are Allah’s decisions.

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Added: Dec 19, 2011 | Read Full »