Human societies withstand dignity when knowledge spreads for prototypical transformation. Education is an avant-garde for masses to think and lead life happily and with dignity. If education doesn’t pledge for self-respect, it becomes irrelevant, landing one in a catch-22 situation not to make judgments about human relationships. Knowledge te...

The Holy Qur’ān tells us that Allah has created man with His own hands in the best of stature, endowed him with some of his own attributes and has given him the power to think, reason and exercise his own free will. Thereafter, Allah commanded the angels to prostrate before man, appointed him His vicegerent on earth and bestowed upon him c...

The worldview of Islam is based on Tauheed (monotheism). Allahu Akbar – Allah is the greatest – this is a declaration that every Muslim makes hundreds of times daily in his prayers. We revere any connection with some great personality as a boost-up for our social image; here all of the humanity is dignified in one stroke when the Qur&rs...

I feel frustrated when I find Muslim intellectuals using Islam for justifying the current international terms or concepts, most of which are defective or deficient, and are advocated by the global forces for their own ends. “Human Rights” is one such concept, which Muslim intellectuals lend their voice to without realising its hidden mo...

Do men think that they will be let alone on saying, ‘we believe,’ and that they will not be tested?” (29:2). “That which is on earth We have made but a glittering show for mankind that we may test as to which of them are best in conduct.” (18:7)“Do you suppose that you would enter the Garden of Paradise without A...

Many animals and birds bring up their offspring diligently and carefully. Still there are some which end up eating or killing their progeny. Modern man has tended to cultivate the habit of the latter group. Coming under the tremendous pressure of the imaginary ghost, named ‘Population Explosion’, man has been occupied with inventing var...

Dignity’ is a loan word in English from Latin. The Qur’ān has several words to define ‘dignity’. Takreem is one such word and it is applied to the children of Adam (17:70), to the reward in the life to come (36:11), to Allah’s Messengers (21:26), to the eternal Gardens, and to the angels (51:24). Fadl is another wor...

The new developments in the field of science and technology have always been a point of discussion and controversy in the Islamic circles. Some time ago when the Sultan of Turkey decided to introduce electricity in the Mosque of the Prophet, religious scholars and leaders opposed it saying that something created artificially cannot occupy a sacred ...

India is now home to about a 100 million people over the age of 60 and this number is expected to reach 320 million by 2050. This presents an economic challenge to our country because of the costs involved in their healthcare. But more importantly it is ballooning into a moral crisis. With growing materialism, humanitarian values like love and resp...