Islam prescribes a complete social system, and Hijab (Purdah or veil) is an important part thereof. The present case gives us an opportunity to explain and introduce to the masses the injunction of Hijab, trying to remove the misunderstanding and misinformation about it. One thing pleasant is that the row has raised Hijab awareness among our women ...

Human beings severally and their societies as a whole can never be homogeneous; heterogeneity or plurality is their basic traits. In that sense no society can ever be non-plural, as such. In fact, the issue of plurality is the political issue for the safeguard of minorities in a democratic setup. As numbers count in a democracy, those with lower co...

Let’s Stop Murdering Our Daughters Our society is struggling with innumerable social evils, of which gender-bias is the most recognisable. Across cultures and societies, females have always been looked down upon as the lesser sex – a liability, a burden, a shame. Women are being denied the right to food, right to education, right t...

 AN OLD VICEHomosexuality has been here since thousands of years. It finds mention in the Bible and the Qur’ān, where the story of Prophet Lot’s community and the divine punishment meted out to it is narrated. Epidemiological data suggests that this vice is more common in the wealthy strata of society, for whom social norms are ...

 Rape is completely forbidden in Islam, and is a crime punishable by death.In Islam, capital punishment is reserved for the most extreme crimes which harm individual victims or destabilise society. Rape falls into both of these categories.Islam takes very seriously the honour and protection of women. The Holy Qur’ān repeatedly enjoins...

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...