The Sunday Guardian | November 10, 2024 Tazkiya literally means purification. In the extended sense it means growth. In this respect, tazkiya means intellectual development. The mind is not…

Egypt and China faced the same kinds of international crises, but their respective responses and the subsequent results were different. China successfully managed the crisis, while Egypt failed to do…

War on its own is an act which, once initiated, can never be brought to an end. If active war is discontinued, passive war takes its place. In actual fact there are always two sides in a war: one…

The Iraq War, an armed conflict that began with the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, was led by the United States during the tenure of President George Bush Jr. A military action, it was planned at the…

The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794) observed in his famous work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ‘History is indeed little more than the register of crimes,…

Philosophers and reformers in every age have been obsessed with the concept of idealism. Some have wanted to establish an ideal government, but they have failed. Some have tried to establish an ideal…

The Sunday Guardian | November 03, 2024 One method of attaining tazkiya is to formulate certain principles in an abstract way, put them in writing and ask others to read them. This may be one way to…

During the period when the Prophet Muhammad was in Makkah (610 to 632 AD), there was a war in 627 AD called the Battle of the Trench (Ghazwa al-Khandaq) in which the opponents of the Prophet Muhammad…

The Sunday Guardian Part I  | January 23, 2022 | The Sunday Guardian Part II | Jan 30, 2022 Swami Vivekananda, a great spiritual luminary of India, was motivated by a desire expressed by his guru,…