The practice imbibes some significant moral values and draws spiritual influences on the minds of people. Looking at a silent graveyard where everybody, whether poor or rich, weak or powerful, is buried with only three pieces of a cloth, a grave-visitor finds abundant  opportunity to purify his mind and heart and can overcome evils of greed, malice, avarice, pride and other worldly desires....

بہترین حالات میں ولی عورت کے معاملات کی بحسن وخوبی دیکھ بھال کرتا ہے، اس کے لیے آسانیاں پیدا کرتا ہے اور اس کے ساتھ چلتا ہے اگرچہ اس میں اس کے لیے بھی کافی مشقت اور پریشانی ہوتی ہے، لیکن زیادہ تر حالتوں میں ولی ایسا نہیں کرتا، بلکہ اس قانون کا غلط فائدہ اٹھاتا ہے اور عورت کو بلیک میل کرتا ہے، کتنی ہی بیویاں اپنی ساری تنخواہ محض اس لیے شوہر کے ہاتھ میں رکھ دیتی ہیں تاکہ وہ انہیں دفتر چھوڑنے جایا کرے، کتنے ہی باپ اپنی مطلقہ بیویوں سے بدلہ لینے کے لیے اپنی بیٹیوں کی تعلیم رکوا دیتے ہیں، کتنی ہی بہنیں چھوٹی چھوٹی باتوں کے لیے اپنے بھائیوں کو رشوت دیتی نظر آتی ہیں    

Women have adopted the method of ‘baring-it-all’ in public since ancient times to protest against all sorts of issues they felt important. Legend has it that an upright noble Lady Godiva in eleventh century England felt so strongly that she took up the challenge to ride naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry to protest against her husband’s oppressive taxes imposed on the poor. However the husband commanded all to remain indoors and shut windows and doors for the event........

In the best circumstances, the Wali takes care of the affairs of the woman properly. He facilitates matters for her and stands by her though in doing so he faces many hardships and problems. But in most of the cases the Wali is not that caring, rather he takes advantage of the rule and blackmails the woman. Many wives hand over all her salary to the husband so that he escorts her to the office. Many fathers stop the education of their daughters to take revenge on their divorced wives. Many sisters have to bribe their brothers for getting their help in petty matters....

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A long list of the holy companions of the prophet (pbuh) who wrote on behalf of the prophet (pbuh) is the proof of the fact that literacy and education was common during the period of the prophet (pbuh). These companions are Hadhrat Abu Bakar, Hadhrat Ali and Hadhrat Uthman. According to some traditions, the holy companions also read the Torah. Hadhrat Malik narrates with reference of Hadhrat Umar that Hadhrat Umar said that holy prophet (pbuh) saw a scripture in my hand with its pages torn and asked, ‘what is it?’ I said, ‘A part of the Torah’. He (pbuh) became angry and said, ‘By God, even if Moses were alive, he would have to follow me.’(3) Apart from it, the story of the conversion of Hadhrat Umar is known to all through the narration of Ibn Ishaque, in which he reads the verse and says,’Ma ahsan haza al kalam wa ikrama’. And that was the reason of his conversion to Islam. Not only that, traditions also say that the elder grandfather, Qusay bin Kalam was also literate and his grandfather Abdul Muttalib also was literate. (4) Moreover, a tradition of Ibn Ishaque also says that to fulfil one of his Mannats, Abdul Muttalib, made his ten sons write their names which show that the grandfather and all the uncles of the prophet (pbuh) were educated and literate....

“Today I find myself in a very vulnerable position as a mother of a 13-year-old girl and a widow expatriate without a sponsor. I am not sure how the laws will apply in this particular case but what if I fail to find a sponsor before the grace period runs out; someone kind enough to understand my dire straits and do the honourable thing of granting myself and my daughter unconditional sponsorship without unreasonable demands?...

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Africa

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The answer to your question, when the sectarian killings and violence started in Pakistan, I think it is basically the 80s when the possibility of sectarian violence and sectarian bloodshed arose. Three such incidents occurred in this region that basically created an atmosphere of sectarian and communal rifts. One was Russia’s attack on Afghanistan when we used the government machinery for jihad, and all the organised institutions of Pakistan including the army provided leadership to this jihad......

 

“I begin in the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Salaam Alaikum. Peace upon all those who gather here. Let’s speak to the concept of compassion and mercy. If we want to ask God for compassion and mercy, then we must try and show the same compassion and mercy for all God’s creation, which includes people of all faith, the environment and animals.  We greet each other with the universal Muslim greeting of peace. Just saying “peace upon you” does not create peace....

من ممارسات الصوفیة المتوارثة زیارة القبور التي لھا صلة تاریخیة إسلامیة والتي یؤیدھا علماء التیار الرئیسي للإسلام استنادا إلی الدلائل القاطعة والبراھین الواضحة من القرآن الکریم والأحاديث النبوية. ویبدو لکل فاحص مطلع وخاصة لکل من لھ إلمام بالآيات القرآنية المتعلقة والأحاديث النبوية أن زيارة قبور المسلمین الصالحین وخصوصا ضریحة النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام وسيلة نبيلة لكسب الفضائل والحسنات والخيرات. وھذہ الممارسة تجلب لنا بعض القيم الأخلاقية الهامة أیضا، وتوجه التأثيرات الروحية على عقول الناس. فإذا زرنا مقبرة ساکتة حيث یتساوي الجميع، فقراء كانوا أو أغنياء، ضعفاء أو أقوياء، يمكننا أن نتغلب على شرور أنفسنا من الجشع، والحقد، والطمع، والکبر، والرغبات الدنيوية الأخرى. فقد قال النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام مشیرا إلی نفس النقطة الحاسمة  في حدیثھ :‘‘وإني كنت نهيتكم عن زيارة القبور فزوروها فإنّها تزهّد في الدّنيا وترغب في الآخرة’’

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Maulana Masoud Azhar writes in the December 2010 edition of Al-Qalam: “It is awful to see people who cling to the glory and blessings of Allah suffer. Today infidels and all the enemies of Islam, from Afghanistan, Iraq to Palestine and in other Muslim countries, are killing Muslims and want to end Muslim power. But the glory of those Mujahideen should be observed who have vowed to take revenge from the enemies of Islam and are not hesitating to pledge their lives to please Allah and his Apostle.

When a Mujahid covers his body with explosives for a suicide strike, Allah’s blessing is bestowed upon him and angels follow him wherever he goes, in quest of his target.  With Allah’s blessing, when he succeeds in finding a target, his happiness is immeasurable as Allah shows him the scenery of paradise, where seeing his seventy two beautiful wives awaiting his arrival, the desire of martyrdom increases in his heart. Once he reaches his destiny, that is martyrdom, a fountain of heavenly fragrance gushes forth from his injured body.”

Al-Qalam the spokesperson of the banned organization Jaish-e-Mohammad can be obtained from newspaper stands, book sellers of all big and small cities of Pakistan; on the other hand government has officially banned all the publications of Maulana Masoud Azhar and his organization. Weekly Al-Qalam is taught in thousands of Deobandi seminaries all over the country and some known journalists write columns supporting Jihadist and sectarian ideas in it using their pen names.

First, a quick comparison between Brotherhood rhetoric and conduct before and after the revolution reveals that oppression, not inclusion, was the motivation for developing the group's intellectual discourse and maturity and rationality of its political conduct. This is perplexing and perhaps requires behavioural and psychological study of the group....

If you think about those who are homeless, who live in shelters, or on the streets, or as refugees scattered in temporary camps, then you will realize the blessings of having a home. If you listen to a distressed homeless person saying, “I have nowhere to settle, no fixed place to stay. Sometimes I sleep in others’ house, sometimes in a café or park or on the sea-front, and I keep my clothes in my car,” then you will realize the disruption that results from not having the blessing of a home....