Human Dignity and Islam
Vol. LII No. 41
Date: January 11, 2015
Let Us All Invite Everyone to Islam
The Mira Road chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) 28 December 2014 held a grand public address on ‘Ao Sath Chale’ near Ibraheem Masjid, Mira Road, Mumbai to encourage all Muslims…
Anti-Conversion Bill is against Right to Constitutional Freedom: JIH
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, at a press conference in the national capital on 3 January, said that forceful conversion by fraudulent means is against the rule of law and expressed concern over…
Saiyid Hamid (1920-2014) Another Torchbearer of Education is No More
Renowned educationist and former Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Saiyid Hamid, who played instrumental role in formulating the Rajindar Sachar Committee report, breathed his last on 29 December at…
Pledge for 2015
Sometimes New Year’s celebration turns out to be a nightmare where joys become sorrow. What has happened in Sanghai where more than two dozen people lost their lives in a…
DID WINSTON CHURCHILL CONSIDER CONVERTING TO ISLAM?
A 1907 letter discovered by a University of Cambridge researcher suggests that Winston Churchill – who served in the army in India in the late 1890s – may have considered…
AMU SEERAT COMMITTEE TO ORGANISE SEMINAR
The Aligarh Muslim University’s Seerat Committee is organising a seminar on Empowerment of Women under the Prophet of Islam on 20 January 20. Students from various disciplines have been invited…
Islam is Seriously Misunderstood
After reading every chapter in the Qur’ān twice and taking detailed notes,ANGELA COLLINS believes that Islam is the religion that came to clarify the errors of human beings who changed the…
Universal Brotherhood will Restore Human Dignity
PROF. Dr. YASIN MAZHAR SIDDIQUI, a renowned Islamic scholar and former Chairman, Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, in an interview with MOHAMMAD NAUSHAD KHAN, underlined the notion of…
Dignity sans Justice Well-nigh Impossible
Justice is the backbone of social life; without social justice dignity is not at all possible, avers PROF. JAMIL FAROOQUI
World of Satellites
A satellite is any object that orbits around another, larger body. The Moon, for example, is a natural satellite of the Earth. An artificial satellite is a manufactured object that…
How to Contain Loss of Dignity
DR. WAQUAR ANWAR analyses the factors that can lead to loss of human dignity and suggests ways and means to contain it.
Sajjad Yacoob: One of Top 25 Chief Medical Information Officers
Sajjad Yacoob, MD was named one of the top 25 Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIO) in the United States by Becker’s Hospital Review published by Becker’s Healthcare, the leading source…
The QUR’ĀN, Prayer and Zikr
In today’s so-called glamorous world we find evils, in all forms and sizes, around us. Today’s materialistic world has no place for values. Moral science lessons that were taught in…
HUMAN ORGAN DONATION The Islamic Perspective
SYED KAZIM presents the various viewpoints on human organ donation in Islamic perspective and calls upon the researchers to strive for making artificial organs and for paving the way for…
HUMANITY BEMOANS
With the help of tell-tale, graphic images, ARSHAD SHAIKH portrays the silent suffering and emotional trauma the elderly experience in old age homes in our ‘civilized’ society, and holds the…
A Divinely Conferred Privilege
PROFESSOR U MUHAMMAD IQBAL dwells upon the importance of human dignity in human life, in ideological and historical perspectives.
Significance of Islamic Principles in the World of Materialism
Materialism is defined as “the belief that material possessions and physical comfort are more important than spiritual values”. (D.K. Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley, London, 2010)
Mahatma Gandhi on Prophet Muhammad
Mahatma Gandhi, speaking on the character of Muhammad, peace and blessings be to him, says in Young India:
A Social Stigma, Crime and Embarrassment
DR. PARVEZ MANDVIWALA presents a critical study of LGBT in the light of Islamic teachings and argues that it does not behove man, Allah’s vicegerent on earth and the crème…
The Pivot of Human Dignity
DR. JAVED JAMIL argues for ensuring human security and calls upon Islamic organisations as well as governments of Muslim countries to raise the issue of global security in the international…
A Crime against Human Dignity
It is time for us to put the teachings of Islam about foeticide in practice and bring up children, especially the girls, accordingly, concludes DR. HASEEB AHMED
The Chronicler of Human Dignity
Education supports the promotion of social order to judge human rights, value them and strive for inherent dignity, opines ASIF ANWAR ALIG
You Reap as You Sow!
Do men think that they will be let alone on saying, ‘we believe,’ and that they will not be tested?” (29:2). “That which is on earth We have made but…
Prophetic Lessons on Human Dignity
KHAN YASIRchronicles the Prophet’s utmost concern for dignity of one and all, of believers and unbelievers, of masters and slaves, of women and children, of the living and the dead…
Your Creator is One
O people! Your Creator is one; you are from the same ancestor; all of you are from Adam, and Adam was created from earth
Then Think of the Day…
Indeed, We honoured the progeny of Adam, and bore them across land and sea and provided them with good things for their sustenance, and exalted them above many of Our…
Islam, the Upholder of Human Dignity
Man is the highest and most honoured creation of God. This has been confirmed by our accumulated knowledge and ever-expanding scientific discoveries.
