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Pakistan’s Not So Honourable Judges

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 19, 14452024-01-01

Far from delivering justice, judges in Pakistan, taking their orders from the thuggish generals, are punishing innocent people. They have sunk to new a low. If there is no justice, there will be no peace in Pakistan.

A Good Conscience Is A Choice Companion

Abu Dharr

Jumada' al-Akhirah 19, 14452024-01-01

Uthman ibn Affan was the son-in-law of the Prophet (pbuh) and a generous companion. He provided immense financial support in various battles and provided equipment and other war material. Abu Dharr continues to shed light on the early history of Islam.

Distinguishing Ulul Amr From False Scholars

Salina Khan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 19, 14452024-01-01

There are many false scholars masquerading as genuine leaders. It is important to know who qualify as ulul amr and who are the imposters.

First Anniversary of My Mother’s Departure from This Dunya

Zafar Bangash

Safar 05, 14442022-09-01

Every child, young or old, knows how special mothers are. Allah mentions their special place in the noble Qur’an (31:14). The Prophet (pbuh) has said that Paradise lies at the feet of the mothers. On the first anniversary of his mother’s passing away, ICIT director narrates some details about his mother’s life and the unusual events that have occurred since her departure.

Time to Liberate Makkah, Once Again

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Hijjah 11, 14412020-08-01

Hajj has been suspended for most but a handful of Muslims this year. Those that were unable to perform Hajj have not missed much since the Bani Saud have turned this divinely prescribed obligation into an empty ritual devoid of all meaning

In the age of lies and disinformation

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 04, 14382017-04-01

Western officials and the corporate media have made lies and disinformation a part of normal existence. What is worse, they even insist people must accept their lies as truth.

Israeli-firsters’ hysterical lies

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 08, 14332012-03-01

The Zionists are compulsive liars. From the myth that God “promised” them the Holy Land to the claim that Palestine was a “land without a people” given to “a people without a land”, they have peddled these lies endlessly. Anyone that dares oppose their inhuman and barbaric practices is immediately subjected to vicious distortions and lies.

‘Ulama’ in the service of taghut

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Awwal 09, 14332012-02-01

In his masterpiece, Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali offers the following advice to Muslims: shun those ‘ulama’ that stand as supplicants at the ruler’s door. Instead, seek guidance of those that are visited by the rulers. Imam Ghazali was writing at a time when the rulers were Muslims.

Islamic concept of legitimacy

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 06, 14332011-12-01

As mass popular movements sweep the Muslim East (aka Middle East) predatory Western powers and their local satraps are involved in desperate attempts to hijack them. They are offering the same failed systems in a new garb. Since the overwhelming majority in the region is Muslim, it is natural that they would want a social order connected to Islamic principles that represent and ennoble their unique identity.

Colonization of the Muslim mind

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Awwal 15, 14312010-03-01

In the rest of the Muslim world, barring Islamic Iran, the ruling elites have accepted defeat and humiliation as their permanent condition. One can find striking lessons of such behaviour related to Bani Israel described in the noble Qur’an.

Piracy in the real world

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 06, 14302009-05-01

In the introduction to his 1985 book, Of Emperors and Pirates, the American professor, Noam Chomsky quotes St. Augustine narrating a dialogue between Alexander the Great and a pirate. “How dare you molest the seas?” demands Alexander. “How dare you molest the world?” replies the pirate. “Just because I do it with a little boat, I am called a pirate and you do it with a huge ship and you are called an emperor!”

US to shift Afghan war to Pakistan

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 05, 14302009-04-01

April marks a grim milestone in Afghanistan’s tortuous history. On April 27, 1978 the country was plunged into crisis following a Marxist-led military coup in which President Sardar Daud and virtually his entire family was killed. An internal uprising followed leading to the Soviet invasion of December 27, 1979.

What future for Pakistan?

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Awwal 04, 14302009-03-01

March 23 is an important landmark in Pakistan’s history. It was on this date in 1940 that the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in Lahore demanding a separate homeland for the Muslims of India. Within seven years Pakistan emerged on the world map as an independent state.

Obama: A black man in the White House?

Zafar Bangash

Safar 05, 14302009-02-01

Barack Obama’s election on November 4th and his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th have led to misplaced optimism even among those who should know better. Obama’s claims to America’s “greatness” because it afforded him — son of a cattle-herder from Africa — the opportunity to rise to the highest office in the land should not mislead anyone.

Resistance and suffering in Ghazzah

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 04, 14302009-01-01

Ever since the Palestinian Islamic resistance group, Hamas, won the January 2006 elections, Ghazzah has been turned into a concentration camp. Western countries immediately withdrew financial support once Hamas took full control in Ghazzah in June 2007. The aim was to strangle the Hamas-led government; so much for the West’s respect for democracy.

Obama’s victory brings no change

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Hijjah 03, 14292008-12-01

Two narratives have dominated news about Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential elections. The first is the corporate media’s hype that democracy in America is vibrant because even an African-American can be elected president. The second is the global euphoria over Obama’s “historic” victory carrying the implication that a similarly “historic” shift is about to occur in US policies.

The US economic meltdown

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Qa'dah 02, 14292008-11-01

By the time these lines are read, the US presidential election would be over. Current trends suggest Barack Obama would be the next president unless some unforeseen catastrophe or electoral fraud like those in 2000 and 2004 occur. Obama will inherit the biggest economic mess in US history since the 1930s depression. How did the US, the largest economy in the world, come to such a sorry state?

Dawn of a new era in global politics

Zafar Bangash

Shawwal 01, 14292008-10-01

Within a period of less than 30 years, Muslims have consigned one superpower—the Soviet Union—to the dustbin of history and are about to deliver the other—the US—to the same fate, together with its regional surrogate, Israel. The achievements against the US are particularly remarkable because the mujahideen have had little or no external help.

Taking The Ascendant Qur’an to South Africa

Zafar Bangash

Ramadan 01, 14292008-09-01

That the first volume of The Ascendant Qur'an, Imam Muhammad al-Asi's new tafseer of the Qur’an, would be well received inSouth Africa was never in doubt, given his great popularity within the Muslim community; what was unclear was the degree of support it would receive.

Taking Imam al-Asi’s tafseer to South Africa

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 29, 14292008-08-01

Two months may be too short a time to present an accurate assessment of the impact of Imam Muhammad al-Asi’s tafseer, The Ascendant Qur’an, but the contours of its reception are already clear. Most people have been impressed by its fine production quality, contrasting it with the poor quality of Islamic literature often produced elsewhere in the Muslim world.

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