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Current Affairs and Politics, Page 22

The Crisis of ISIS

By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf To view this Youtube video, please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJo4B-yaxfk  

Peace and Justice in Islam

By Imam Zaid Shakir
“We must clearly illustrate to the world that our religion is indeed the religion of peace. However, our striving for peace must never allow us to be unjust, nor should it allow us to passively accept injustices. We must take a stand for justice, as we are ordered in the Qur’an…”

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Islamic Education

“The region with the densest and most inventive Islamic education is Indonesia. There are over 100,000 Islamic colleges in Java alone; and many are pioneering new models of spiritually-rooted education that fights the modern tendency to fragment knowledge, by reuniting everything under the principle of Tawhid…”

Allah is sufficient for true Believers…

By Dr Husni Hammuda
“In Gaza today as in 7th Century Arabia during the time of Prophet Muhammad sws, the true believers put their trust in Allah and continue to strive in doing good and forbidding evil. They depended not on their numbers, but on their nearness to Allah…”

Playing at religion: Wearing ideological blinders

By Irshad Hussain.
“… what religion is meant to do – to bind men to God and thus unfold for them a perspicacious and penetrating insight, An insight that is necessary if society is to apply revelation to one’s era in the most beneficial way possible – an insight that promotes the growth of knowledge across all fields, that leads to spiritual depth, and human connectedness …”