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Mr. L Ravi Chander, Advocate investigating the arrests and allegations of the cases filed against the rounded up Muslim youth immediately after the Makkah Masjid blasts has been meted out a raw deal .

He is simply being denied his remuneration though he was formally and officially hired by the A.P Minorities commission.

No fees or rumenaration for investigating and recording the pleas and complaints of the parents of the innocent Muslim youth arrested and thrown in cell- seems to be the policy of the State Government.

Indeed these are hard and tough times for our Millat all over the world. May Allah O Tallah have mercy on us all.

Right from Individual level to Societal , State and National to International we are taking a beating at the hands of the enemies of Islam. We have become an easy prey and scapegoats for all that is going wrong around.

The United Nations has warned that parts of southern Sudan could be in pre-famine conditions, with 1.3 million people across the country in need of food aid.

The number of people needing assistance has surged since the beginning of the year due to inter-tribal conflict, poor rains and the high cost of food commodities in the region.

You could call me a ‘matchmaker,’ said Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI-agent whom he believed to be a client. Ten days later, at the end of July this year, Rosenbaum was arrested and a vast, Sopranos-like, imbroglio of money-laundering and illegal organ-trade was revealed. Rosenbaum’s matchmaking had nothing to do with romance. It was all about buying and selling kidneys from Israel on the black market. Rosenbaum says that he buys the kidneys for $10,000, from poor people.

In fact, Pakistan’s jihadi politics has nothing to do with India Partition. Partition was the result of British imperialist rulers’ “divide and rule policy.” It is unfortunate that some Indian intellectuals living in the United States provide the Western world distorted facts with the sole ambition of demeaning Islam, Muslims and Muslim countries. We have enough problems already regarding misrepresentation of Islam. Such distorted explanation of “jihadi politics” in the Muslim countries only strengthens the misconception that Islam is a religion of violence.

The month of Ramadan has arrived again, the month of fasting and prayer. It is the month that provides an opportunity for forgiveness from Allah and emancipation from our sins. It is the month for performing good deeds and giving in charity. It is the month when the gates of the heavens are opened and the rewards for our deeds are magnified many times over. It is the month wherein prayers are answered and the status of the worshipper is elevated. It is the month wherein sins are forgiven.

Fasting may seem strange to non-Muslims but it is just one aspect of Ramadan, an important time of self-reflection

Ramadan is just a few days away and I will be joining many of the 1.6 million Muslims in the UK preparing to refocus for four weeks.

Following the lunar calendar means that the hours of fasting will be longer than they have been for many years, which is definitely a challenging prospect. But the four weeks of self-discipline is actually one that I always look forward to.

New Delhi, Aug 20: The Karnataka college that disallows its students from wearing either burqas or headscarves has found unexpected support amongst a section of Islamic scholars who say rules should be followed because Islam is not particular about imposing any dress code.

“Burqa is not a part of Islam. It is a part of culture, the culture that the people of the subcontinent have been following since ages. Nobody can enforce a dress code in the name of Islam. It is categorically un-Islamic,” renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan told IANS.

It is of course possible to take the position that the Congress made Partition possible through its many mistakes: the poorly timed Quit India movement itself, Nehru’s ill-considered comments at a critical juncture, the alienation caused by the failure to share power in Uttar Pradesh with the Muslim League, and so on.

At the end of this week, Muslims will start Ramadhan. Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Islam uses a lunar calendar, that is, each month begins with the sighting of the new moon. Because the lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than the solar calendar used elsewhere, Islamic holidays “move” each year. For more than a billion Muslims around the world, Ramadhan is a month of blessing marked by prayer, fasting and charity.

It has become something of a fashion for people today to constantly criticize and even condemn the traditional madrasa-educated ulema. Not just non-Muslims but many Muslims themselves regard the ulema as obscurantist, hopelessly outdated and a major cause of Muslim backwardness. While admitting the limitations and weaknesses of our traditional ulema in general, it was found to be their total rejection or condemnation very disheartening. After all, one of the most important services that the ulema provide is to transmit to the next generation the tradition of Islamic learning.

Mr. Jaswant Singh, a senior BJP leader from Rajasthan has written a book on Jinnah which is expected to be published shortly. He has, according to a news item on NDTV, called Jinnah a secular person and thrown responsibility for partition on Nehru. Earlier Mr. L. K. Advani had also described Jinnah as secular while visiting Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi and paid heavy price for it as RSS asked him to resign as president of BJP. And now Jaswant Singh, a fairly independent minded leader has called Jinnah a secular person.

In the 1950s and ’60s they just brushed past us. Even today, they evoke distinct images of romance. Muslim socials in Bombay cinema were like a gentle breeze of spring: magnificent havelis, scintillating fountains, men in sherwanis, women decked in ornate jewellery, music and poetry flowing like honey with umpteen shers and shayris belted out as repartees at every turn, the energising qawwalis; the gentle gesture of the palm being lifted to the forehead as the characters uttered Aadab in salutation and every couplet being appreciated with a Subhan Allah.

I often wonder whether people see me as a radical fundamentalist and terrorist Muslim who hides an AK-47 assault rifle underneath her jean jacket. Perhaps, they see me as the poster girl for oppressed womanhood everywhere. I am not sure which of the two it is.

I get the whole gamut of strange looks, stares, and covert glances. I wear the hijab, and it covers my head, my neck, and my entire body except my face and hands. I do this because I am a Muslim woman who obeys the commands of her Lord and believes that her body is her own private concern.

The edifice of Islam is based on five pillars: lman (belief), Salah (prayer), Saum (fasting), Zakat (poor-due) and Haj (pilgrimage to Ka’bah). These five pillars, which constitute the fundamental principles of Islam embracing all the essential factors of ethical laws, evolve into a practical code of life for humanity. They are unique and unrivalled in their spirit and actions and redolent of a spiritual flair for mankind.

It has become almost fashionable for a Muslim to say ‘Islam is in danger’. The religion whose literal meaning is peace is today seen as the root cause of terror and violence. The Muslim world cannot merely dismiss this as a fallout of a grand conspiracy against Islam by people of other faiths. It has failed to present the real essence of Islam and remained a mute spectator to many atrocities against humanity committed in the name cleansing the world of infidels.

This is a fact that no society can live long with injustice and double standard in giving justice to its people. Unfortunately our country India is fast turning into a society of that character. The attitude of police, administration and judiciary towards Muslim youths arrested in connection with terror cases shows the double standard of justice in the country.

Growing up in the eighties, one could not escape the slogan, “Pakistan ka matlab kya–La ilaha ilallah.” If not cried out at public rallies, it was written as graffiti. Though it rhymes and jingles, the motto never made sense to me, not even when I was fourteen. La ilaha ilallah is a Muslim’s creed. The idea that there is no god but Allah is an affirmation of monotheism, the Islamic concept of tawheed. How on earth could this be the definition of Pakistan? In fact, wouldn’t it be shirk to say that Pakistan, like other countries run by flawed humans, represented the oneness of Allah?

Since Kamala Suraiya nee Das and Obama bin Laden, there has been interest in what is called the `Muslim’ issue. We, the Hindu majority, are now looking curiously at people who have been our brethren for several centuries, who share our culture, traditions, food habits and certainly, history.

True understanding of the Quran cannot be possessed by the one with neither intellectual nor spiritual prerequisites, let alone the one who is impudent and insolent of religion.

Confusion and error in knowledge of Islam, as a religion and a civilization, are more harmful to Muslims than mere ignorance.

The mind which is ignorant is simply in a state of privation of knowledge.

Being ignorant in the simple sense of lacking in knowledge means one does not pretend to know. Here, one neither knows nor fancies that one knows religious truths.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

In recent times the news of Muslim girls marrying non-Muslim boys is thought provoking and have taken a grave turn.

Muslim girls are openly showing their love for their lovers. Not only this, they are willing to tie the knot at any cost even if it means changing their religion.

These incidents are not few but in hundreds. This is another story that only a few incidents are highlighted in media. A few days back, the dead body of a Muslim girl was found in a park situated in Banjara Hills where she had gone with her non-Muslim husband.

Remember Chandra Mohan, the then Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the son of Bhajan Lal, a big gun in Congress political circles who had disowned his son because he had converted to Islam to marry another woman while his first wife was still alive. Chandra Mohan’s lady love was none other than a former legal luminary of Chandigarh, now named Fiza. The case of conversion to beat the bigamy law created a furore in both social and legal circles. Chandra Mohan, who had renamed himself Chand Mohammed soon had a change of heart and re-embraced the Hindu Dharma and reverted to his Hindu.

Israel Seeks Ways to Silence Human Rights Groups

In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel’s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.

It has begun by targeting one of the world’s leading rights organisations, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), as well as a local group of dissident army veterans, Breaking the Silence, which last month published the testimonies of 26 combat soldiers who served in Gaza.

The fifteenth night of the month of Sha’baan, commencing with sunset, is a highly auspicious night. It is known as Shab-e-Baraat – tha Night of Deliverance from sins.

Authentic Traditions reveal that the account of a person’s activities of the last year is closed this evening and simultaneously fresh account is opened for the new year. In this night Allah passes of His Knowledge of every individual’s activities in the year ahead to the angels concerned.