I once went to spend a few days at a religious institution situated on the outskirts of Alwar, a city in Rajasthan. To the one side there extended the buildings of the city and, to the other, there…

The Quran states: When the earth is shaken with its violent shaking, when the earth shakes off her burdens, when man asks, ‘What is happening to her?’; on that Day it will narrate its account, for…

Ibn Khaldun has recorded an incident regarding Salat in his Muqaddama. It was during the days of the second caliph, ‘Umar Faruq, that the army of Sahaba entered Persia. There were no mosques there at…

The Times of India Dr. Abdul Jalil of New Delhi, once had the opportunity to visit Japan in 1970, where he stayed for six months. He later recounted an incident to me which cast a significant light…

The Times of India Mr. Surjit Singh Lamba (b. 1931) who works in the Law Ministry and lives in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, has been gifted by nature with a photographic memory. This means that just by…

The Sunday Guardian Who is the best individual? In Islam the best individual is one who is predictable in character, about whom one can be sure in advance that, whenever one has any dealings with…

The Sunday Guardian According to Al-Bukhari, God said: “I will become a claimant against three persons, one of them being a person who engaged a labourer, made him labour fully, but did not pay the…

The Times of India | October 03, 2025 The International Day of Nonviolence is observed on Oct 2, MK Gandhi’s birthday. It encourages us to pledge ‘the universal relevance of the principle of…