December 2021 | Vol. LIX No. 35 |  Focus

Constitutional Provisions for Minorities

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Photo Essay

Photo Essay 05-12-2021
“He has created the skies without any supports that you can see, and has placed firm mountains on earth, lest it sway with you,…” (Surah 31 – Luqman – Ayah...
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Current Affairs, Featured

How US Gesture can Save 3.2 Million Afghan Children’s Lives
A way must be found to ensure that the new government in Kabul is able to access its funds kept frozen in American banks. This humanitarian gesture, if it comes...
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Ultimate Success

The Divine Challenge Stands Intact
By Sikandar Azam Every true message is bound to meet opposition, often fierce but pointless. The same was the case with the Divine Message, the Qur’ān being revealed to the...
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The Quran

There’s No Compulsion in Religion
“There is no compulsion in religion. The Right Way stands clearly distinguished from the wrong. Hence he who rejects the evil ones and believes in Allah has indeed taken hold...
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Current Affairs, Featured

Minority Rights and Wrongs
By Soroor Ahmed The term Minorities has become synonym to Muslims, even when the fact is that the Indian Constitution not only talks about religious minorities, but also about the...
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Readers' Pulse

Readers’ Pulse 05-12-2021
Voice against Silencing the Dissenters After having nearly the entire media beaten into submission, the government, it seems, is trying to do likewise with officers of the court. How else...
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Quran Studies

Relations with Parents
By Syed Akbar Hassan The Qur’ān (31:14-15) says: “We have enjoined upon man goodness to his parents: his mother bore him going from weakness to weakness, and his weaning takes...
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Current Affairs, Featured

Constitution protects minorities. But minorities face systematic discrimination
Abdul Bari Masoud examines the situation minorities in India have been facing, in the light of the Constitutional provisions and other documents and reports. The country observed the 72nd ‘Constitution...
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Muslim World

Muslim World 05-12-2021
US CITIES IN MICHIGAN ELECT FIRST MUSLIM MAYORS Two Muslim Arab Americans made history when they were elected mayors in Michigan. Abdullah Hammoud (Dearborn) and Amer Ghalib (Hamtramck) became their...
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Current Affairs, Featured

Minority Spaces, Majority Anger: Babri and Beyond in India
While we must seek legal, political and societal solutions to the issue of the precarity and vulnerability of Muslim religious spaces, we must also open routes of communication between minorities...
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