The Times of India | March 22, 2025 Water is the foundation of life, an essential element without which existence would be impossible. It constitutes a significant portion of all living beings, with…

Sunday Guardian | May 30, 2020 A noted western writer, after studying the lives of great men, attempted to pinpoint the special qualities that were common to all of them. He concluded that all of…

Fasting means withdrawing from worldly attachments. This reaches a climax during Itikaf. Itikaf is a very special practice, marking the closure of the blessed month of Ramadan. Observers of this…

How does the Islamic way of life set off inner activities in man? In this, the mainspring is the concept of accountability. Islam brings man to the realization that God Almighty is omnipresent and…

On June 21, 1990, the north-western part of Iran was hit by an earthquake so severe in its intensity that it left 80,000 dead and 200,000 injured in its wake. A comment frequently heard at that time…

The Times of India | March 24, 2025 Man has been granted total intellectual freedom in Islam. It was Islam which brought into existence the revolution in human history which granted freedom of…

In the Chapter Al-Baqarah (2:183) of the Quran, believers are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan: “Believers, fasting has been prescribed for you, just as it was prescribed for those before…

Iftar is an Arabic word, which literally means ‘to break’. In the Islamic context, it means to break the fast, to eat and drink in the evening after the daylong fast. Iftar is like dinner combined…