The Place of Tolerance in Islam
In the aftermath of September 11, Islam’s relation to violence and tolerance have been widely discussed. The critics…
Issue 62 (March - April 2008)
19 articles
How Swift Our Minutes Pass!
Great God, how frail a thing is man!How swift his minutes pass!His age contracts within a span;He blooms…
Sheikh Galib and His Definition of Divine Love
Galib’s master work Hüsn ü Ask (“Beauty and Love”) is viewed as one of the most distinguished works…
The Souls Besieged by a Life of Transience
Those who perceive the world solely in terms of its transitory face and physical constraints can be seen,…
A Brief Introduction to the Noble Qur’an
Islam is a fast growing religion in the West. For the last few decades, there has been growing…
Water: The Molecule of Life
The sustenance of all known life-forms relies heavily on water, and almost all living things are mostly composed…
Human Rights and Islam
Question: What is the Islamic stance on human rights? How does Islam regard the killing of a person?…
Understanding Today’s Schools with Chaos Theory
Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs…
A Reform Rabbi Learns from Muhammad
All Muslims know that the Qur’an often refers to the “people of the book” and their prophets. In…
Heroes of Compassion
Once there were model men Roaming in our shining civilization. They breathed life into lost souls, We called…
Economic Development via Human Development
Think about two South African children born on the same day in 2000: Nthabiseng and Pieter. Nthabiseng is…
Curative Cherries
Fruits of various kinds in abundance, such as dates in sheathed clusters, bananas piled one above another, grapes,…
A Personal Pilgrimage
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.”…
From the Spider’s Web
Hello dear humankind, Many of you are frightened of us. You have even invented a disease called “Arachnophobia”…
Hal and Maqam (State and Station)
Hal (state) denotes experiencing in one’s inner world the “breaths” blowing from the realms beyond the world, and…