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Magic is a fact which is endorsed by the Holy Quran and sayings of the Prophet (PBUH) but falling victim to the superstitions or being frightened of supernatural powers, we often indulge in polytheistic acts. Taking advantage of our credulousness, spiritualists (Amil) rob us of wealth and consequently we betray our faith too.

Women are gullible enough to suspect or have a doubt thus found knocking at the door of spiritualists to solve family problems.

Let alone the new generation even the parents would be nonplussed if we ask them the names of Ummahat-ul–Momineen or Ashra Mubashira. In contrast to that they can easily count the names of dozens of serials telecast on television and a number of actors’ and actresses’ names performing in them.

It has been learnt that such dialogues and scenes displayed on television channels these days, were not given approval by the sensor board even for the adult films in the decade of seventies.

Abu Hurayrah may Allah be pleased with him narrated that Probhet (PBUH) said: “If there comes to you an offer of marriage, one with whose religious commitment and character you are pleased, then marry him. If you do not do so, there will be mischief on earth and widespread corruption.”

It is the tragedy of Muslim Ummah of the subcontinent India that its new generation is lacking education. Whatever little educational talent exists that is because of the daughters of Ummah.

There was a time when girls’ education was considered improper but while trying to change this perspective we have fallen into yet another trouble. While the daughters of Ummah excelled in educational field, the boys continued to lag behind.

It is stated in the Quran Surah Nur ‘Tell the believing men to lower their gaze, and protect their private parts. That is purer for them. Verily, Allah is All-Aware of what they do.’

And in Surah Ahzab ayat number 59 it is stated ‘O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested.

And Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.’

Prophet (PBUH) directed men and women not to create intimacy with not only na-mahrams but also with such women of Jews and Christians who indulge in vulgar and indecent talks. Today boys and girls who study in colleges mingle freely.

The environment has become so corrupt that a girl who doesn’t keep a boy friend is considered pathetic. College girls discuss in the free hours such subjects on which modest married couple feel shy to talk about. 

Hats off to the farsightedness of Islamic scholars, who had expressed their reservations for Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s movement for English education and had expressed apprehensions that western culture would be penetrated through English language.

Islamic scholars of that time had cleared their stand that they were not opposed to English rather any language but they wished that instead of teaching any language in its own culture it should be arranged to teach in Islamic culture for which such persons should be selected who possess Islamic insight.

During the Gujarat carnage Hindu voluntary organizations were distributing aid. It was made obligatory to say ‘Jai Sri Ram’ to get the aid. When a volunteer saw an innocent child in torn and raged clothes he called him near, giving him a toffee asked him to say ‘Jai Sri Ram’.

Sense of honour for faith of the little child didn’t let him say the polytheistic wordings so he pulled back his extended hand for toffee and saying ‘la ilaha illallah Mohammad ur rasool ullah’ ran away from there.

Hazrat Anas (RAA) narrated that Abu Talha sent marriage proposal to Umme Saleem (RAA). She replied ‘By Allah! The person like you cannot go empty handed but the thing is that you are a disbeliever and I am a Muslim. It is unlawful for me to be in your Nikah. If you wish to make Nikah with me then my ‘haq-e-meher’ is that you become a Muslim. Hence Abu Talha (RAA) reverted to Islam and married her.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth writes why she loves Islam.  These are excerpts from Daily Mail, London:

It is the most peculiar journey of my life. The carriage is warm and my fellow passengers unexpectedly welcoming. We are progressing ­rapidly and without delay. Rain, snow, rail unions, these things make no difference to the forward rush.

Two young South Africans have pedaled their way to Saudi Arabia to perform this year’s Haj. Nathim Cairncross, 28, and Imtiyaz Ahmad Haron, 25, both from Cape Town, said on arrival at the Saudi border before reaching Tabuk that they felt happy they were fulfilling their dream of performing Haj. “Pedaling our way to the Kingdom from Cape Town was a grueling experience. We wanted to travel this way so that we are prepared to experience the rigors of performing the pilgrimage,” Cairncross, a town planner by profession, told Arab News over the telephone on Monday night.

Lucknow, October 23: Asserting that the disputed land in Ayodhya was the birthplace of Ram and could not be divided, saffron leaders including RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat today said no power on earth could stop the construction of a grand temple at the site.

“The land of Ram Janam Bhumi cannot be divided and the Mandir movement will reach its conclusion only with the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya,” the RSS chief said at a function here to mark the 75th birth anniversary of Yug Purush Swami Paramanand Maharaj.

The Shiv Sena’s call for a ban on burqa had led to outrage among the Muslim community.  N Ganesh finds out how the community has reacted to this demand.

“In India, every individual has the right to practise their religion. It is not correct for a person who is not from the community to interfere in matters of Shariat,” said Maulana Moin Miya Ashraf, secretary of the Jamia Qadriya Islamia.

When a rapist offers to marry the victim, one would think it’s the perfect solution. But isn’t this victimization of the victim all over again?

You normally don’t expect a girl to marry her rapist but in a recent case in West Delhi, a woman wanted to marry the guy who allegedly raped her. This is obviously not a one off case and definitely brings to limelight the existence of an insensitive society that doesn’t think twice before putting a girl up for trial, once again.

New Delhi, October 18: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has taken a strong exception to the use of the term ‘Saffron or Hindu terror’ and said that terrorism and Hindus cannot be related to each other. Addressing the annual Dussera rally at the Reshim Bagh ground in Nagpur, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, “Terrorism and Hindus are an oxymoron and can never be related to each other. This was an attempt to weaken the strength of the Hindus in India and at the same time to appease the Muslims.”

A shameful and shocking judgement. I am shattered by what it does, by its implications for democracy, and by the statement it makes about what we can expect for the future.

My rage is growing with every statesman-like pronouncement from one pompous man after the other in the media, gravely holding forth on the maturity of the compromise that has been reached.

The acknowledgement that this site be regarded for this purpose as the birthplace of Ram is, if anything, an attempt to de-politicise religion.

The verdict in the Ayodhya title suit faces criticism for banking more on faith and belief than on historical evidence.

Faced with the lack of a conclusive documentary and oral evidence to prove (or not) if a Hindu temple dedicated to Ram was “demolished” to construct a mosque in the 16th century, the Allahabad High Court in 2002 commissioned the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to excavate part of the disputed Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site.

Nation heaved a sigh of relief following the three judges delivering the verdict on Ayodhya case (30th Sptember 2010). There was no violence anywhere, something which was feared very much. The day passed off peacefully and the fear that violence will engulf parts of the country proved to be wrong, thanks to the maturity shown by large sections of population.

By Dileep Padgaonkar: The verdict of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on the title suits related to the disputed site in Ayodhya makes you wonder whether anything straight can ever emerge from the crooked timber of the majoritarian mind. The three parties involved in the suits the Nirmohi Akhara, the Sunni Central Board of Waqf and the Ramlalla Virajman had expected, on wholly reasonable grounds, that the court would rule in favour of one or the other side without a trace of ambiguity.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad HC may have gone by the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) report submitted to it in April 2003 to rule that the disputed site is the birthplace of Ram but noted historians had drilled holes in the report when it first came out.

Though the ASI report refrained from giving a clear verdict on the existence of a temple, use of words like “interesting” and “significant” in crucial places and the body of evidence that it gave pointed to the existence of a temple.

1528: The Babri Masjid built by Mir Baqi, a nobleman of Babur’s court

1855: The Hanumangarhi episode. Hindu-Muslim conflict as a consequence of an attempt by Muslims under the leadership of Shah Gulam Hussain to oust the Hindu Bairagis from the Hanumangarhi temple on the grounds that the temple had supplanted the mosque. The Muslims were deafeated. The dispute was not over the Babri Masjid.

1857: Soon after the Revolt, the Mahant of Hanumangarhi takes over a part of the Babri Masjid compound and constructs a chabutra.

IN 1528 or so, the Babri Masjid was constructed. Controversies about it erupted in the 19th century. On January 29, 1885, Mahant Raghubar Das filed Suit 61/280 as the Mahant of Ramjanmasthan. On December 24, 1885, sub judge Pandit Hari Kishan favoured the Hindu claim without granting relief. On March 18, 1886, on appeal district judge Chamier denied relief and commented, “It was most unfortunate that a Masjid has been built on land held sacred by the Hindus, but as that event occurred 356 years ago, it was too late to remedy the grievance.”

Reminiscent of the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in the early 1990s, Muslims caught this time between stone-throwers and security forces are moving from Srinagar to Jammu in the dark of the night.

“I didn’t inform anyone in the neighbourhood where I was headed,” Abid Ahmad, who left Srinagar and came here with his family a week ago, told IANS on the condition that his locality be not disclosed as it could spell trouble whenever he returned.

One of the most morally obscene aspects of the Iraq War has been the cost-benefit analysis in which war proponents claim that the war has been worth the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people killed in the operation. Since the U.S. government has brought democracy to Iraq, the argument goes, the deaths of countless Iraqi people, while regrettable, has been worth it.