Endowed with Love
Truly, those who are faithful and do righteous deeds, the Compassionate One will endow with Love. – The Quran, (19:96)…
Post-Islamism debates
Ali Eteraz on post-Islamism: …since 2001 we have devoted far too much time to the Islamic reform cult of personality. Faced with an increasingly…
Ramzan – some home-truths
Today, ATP published this post of mine that attempts to look at some of the uncomfortable aspects of the way Holy month is practised…
Killing Shias is not jihad – stop this carnage in Pakistan
This is an old article – When the state kills – authored by Pakistan’s eminent intellectual Khaled Ahmed. It remains relevant for what is…
Islamic Spain: History’s refrain
Alexander Kronemer writes: “At its peak, it lit the Dark Ages with science and philosophy, poetry, art, and architecture. It was the period remembered…
Islam forbids terrorism
Excerpts from here: Sentence of death is allowed only through the process of justice, but even then, forgiveness is better. Nor take life –…
Ideology of intolerance
Sadia Dehlvi forwarded her insightful article that rightly argues how the fringe (notably the Wahabite sect) in Islam has distorted the faith of learning…
Women Sufis of Delhi
One of my favourite verses of the Quran is Surah Al Azhab which makes it clear that spiritual blessings are intended for both righteous…
Mian Mir
Yesterday, devotees were lighting lamps at the shrine of Mian Mir in Lahore to commemorate the saint’s 383rd Urs (death anniversary). Hazrat Mian Mir…
The Sultan of Hearts
The Sultan of Hearts Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya Sadia Dehlvi The 6th of this May marked the 682n AD/703 Hijri death anniversary or Urs celebrations…
Standing Alone in Mecca
Sadia Dehlvi recently reviewed the captioned book for the weekly Outlook. The author of this book is Asra Nomani whose life story is quite fascinating. After reading this review,…
A tribute to Nizamuddin Auliya – Marta’s story
So I go there again and again. I feel the magic of its atmosphere and I believe it is due to the tomb. The…
Shaikh Ali Hujwiri – Data Saheb of Lahore
Originally uploaded by Jahane Rumi The shrine of Shaikh Ali Hajweri, Data Ganj Bakhsh, or Data Sahib is a landmark of sorts in the subcontinent.…
Pictures from Delhi – Getting to Nizamuddin and Ghalib
My friend ST was in Delhi recently. After returning to Islamabad, he sent me the following pictures of his visits to the great locality…
Let us prove all those who link Islam with violence wrong
Contributed by G.S. Qureshi Does verbal criticism of Islam or Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) justify setting churches afire in the West Bank…
Urs of Bulleh Shah in Kasur
The annual Urs of Bulleh Shah, the Punjabi mystic poet, commenced yesterday in Kasur yesterday. Bulleh’s poetry reflected his rejection of orthodox hold of…
the Conference of the Birds
The theory of Tawhid (Unity of Divine Being) has been beautifully expressed by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud din Attar (1157-1235) in his…
Bulleh Shah and Rumi
The works of Bulleh Shah and Rumi echo the emotions of a growing global audience We are the mirror as well as the face…
The Destruction of Holy Sites in Mecca & Medina – Destroying Islamic Heritage
The Asian Age: The Arabian Peninsula, the cradle of Islam, is being demolished by hardliners. In countries such as Saudi Arabia almost all of…
What The Ancients Did For Us – the Islamic World
Islamic inventions and contributions are narrated in a documentary entitled” What The Ancients Did For Us”. This production investigates the social and scientific advances…