Umar bin Khaththab semoga Allah meridloinya mengatakan: “Kita adalah umat yang telah Allah Subhaanahu Wa Ta’aalaa berikan kemuliaan dengan Islam, maka bagaimanapun cara kita mencari kemuliaan tanpa Islam maka Allah akan tetap menjadikannya sebagai kehinaan.” Kapan Umar mengatakan ungkapan ini ? Kapan Umar menyusun perkataan ini ? Umar mengatakan ini ...
Read More »Kritik dan saran Menurut Islam
“Tak ada gading yang tidak retak”, begitulah ungkapan pepatah yang seringkali kita dengar. Pepatah tersebut berarti bahwa di dunia ini tidak ada manusia yang sempurna, setiap orang pasti punya kelemahan dan kekurangan. Akan tetapi, di balik kelemahan dan kekurangan yang dimiliki seseorang, pastilah dia memiliki kelebihan yang mungkin tidak dimiliki ...
Read More »Suicide Bombings Are Forbidden In Islam
Question: It has been reported from your eminence that you do not sanction suicide missions. We therefore seek from you a clarification of the issue. Answer: It is uniformly known amongst the Scholars that it is not permissible for a Muslim to commit suicide to relieve himself of a calamity ...
Read More »Islam and World Peace
Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari A peace imposed by an imperialist power controlling the masses for its own benefit is no peace. “‘Divide and Rule” generates no peace. Conferences, agencies and idealist slogans beget no peace. The U.N. Security Council debates limitations of armaments and gets nowhere. The Eastern bloc and ...
Read More »Islam and the Family
Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari While the warp of society is the individual person and the woof is social order, the unit of the design is the family. Families in which mutual understanding, sincerity and tenderness reign, form details of a harmonious pattern. But a family in confusion and disarray distorts ...
Read More »ISLAM’S GIFTS TO THE WORLD 2
Pharmacology Gustave le Bon writes : “Besides the use of cold water to treat typhoid cases – a treatment later abandoned, though Europe is taking this Muslim invention up again in modern times after a lapse of centuries-Muslims invented the art of mixing chemical medicaments in pills and solutions, many ...
Read More »Islam and Intellectual Advance
Most Westerners are ignorant of the debt their civilisation owes to Islam, even for modern industrial transformation, scientific advance and philosophical enterprise. Islam came into the world in the bosom of one of the most backward of peoples. In a very short time it had raised those tribes to pre-eminence ...
Read More »Islam and Economics (2)
Economic historians tell us that at its inception the capitalist system was simple and beneficent : but that the habit of granting loans at interest step by step grew to its present harmful excess. With this came the bankrupting of small concerns and their amalgamation into huge complex companies and ...
Read More »Islam and Economics (1)
Man has always had to wrestle with the task of exploiting nature’s resources to extract his livelihood therefrom. In the primitive centuries, as Aristotle said, life organised itself socially “to make it possible to live: and continued, to make it possible to live well.” In the last four centuries a ...
Read More »Islam and Nationhood
Today, alas, the symptoms of an inferiority-complex over Western industrial prowess and its deadly consequences mark everything in Eastern nations’ life. Many a Muslim is so impregnated with Western ideas that he wishes to see everything through Western spectacles, in the belief that progress demands manners and morals, laws and ...
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