Islamic Revival

The following is part of the motivating Friday Speech delivered in Urdu on 27th March, 2009 in one of the largest mosques of Hyderabad, India. The Khateeb passionately highlights the difficulties Muslims face in the absence of the Islamic Khilafah state and encourages the Muslims to study the political system of Islam and to work for it.

Recently Mohammad Salim, a Muslim student studying at the Nirmala Convent Higher Secondary School in Madhya Pradesh, India petitioned the Indian Supreme Court that he be allowed to sport a beard, contrary to his school’s rules. The Supreme Court dismissed Salim’s petition and upheld the ruling of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which had ruled that Salim has no right to wear a beard if forbidden by his school rules. On 30th March 2009 on behalf of the entire division bench of the Supreme Court, Justice Markandeya Katju commented as follows: “We should strike a balance between rights and personal beliefs. We cannot overstretch secularism. We don't want to have Talibans in the country. Tomorrow a girl student may come and say that she wants to wear a burqa, can we allow it?” Why can’t we apply the same logic to the adherents of other religions? Shouldn’t the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh be forced to remove his Sikh Turban whilst on state duty and during official functions? S

On 17th June 2007 Pratibha Devsing Patil made a remark on the Purdah system, while addressing a congregation of Rajputs in Udaipur : “Women have always been respected in the Indian culture. The purdah system was introduced to protect them from the Muslim invaders." However, times have changed, she said. “India is now independent and hence, the systems should also change. Now that women are progressing in every field, we should morally support and encourage them by leaving such practices behind”, she advised. On 30th March 2009 Justice Markandeya Katju speaking for a bench headed by Justice Raveendran observed while rejecting the plea of a Muslim student that he should be permitted to sport a beard in his convent school, “Secularism cannot be overstretched and that ‘Talibanisation’ of the country cannot be permitted. We don't want to have Talibans in the country. Tomorrow a girl student may come and say that she wants to wear a burqa, can we allow it". The former is

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful PRESS RELEASE A call to thinkers across the world: Reject Capitalism with its calamities and crises. Here is a Real Alternative... There is an overwhelming opinion amongst politicians, economists and thinkers across the world that the cause behind the ongoing disaster of the economic recession is the ideology of Capitalism itself. Capitalism protects the interests of the capitalists - filling their pockets at the expense of the rest of the people. It has deprived millions of a basic standard of living in order to secure the comforts and luxuries of the capitalists and has divided the world into two: the 5 per cent of people who own more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth and resources and the remaining 95 per cent of the world's population who barely own 20 per cent of the resources. Political leaders and economists seem unconvinced that they are able to provide a solution to this serious recession. Indeed, they appear to b

An Open Letter To the King of Saudi Arabia, The Prime Minister of Turkey and the President of Indonesia on their attendance at the G20 Leaders Summit in London on 2 April 2009 Since 1999, the G20 has been at the forefront of designing the financial architecture that has now crumbled before our very eyes. It has been complicit in the financial and economic policies that has fostered the worst international economic crisis since the great depression. It not only averted its gaze while financiers ran amok but positively encouraged the free and unfettered markets that has led to the horrendous situation before us. Yet today it claims to be the organisation that will rescue the world from financial ruin, a claim that would be laughable if it wasn’t for the grave situation that we witness today. It is deeply ironic that the latest G20 summit is being held in the part of London which comprises the spiritual home of the world’s largest banks and the derivatives capital of the world, both instr

US preparing to establish internment camps for US citizens In January a bill entitled the National Emergency Centres Establishment Act (HR 645) was introduced in the US Congress. It calls for the establishment of six national emergency centres in major regions in the US to be located on existing military installations. The stated purpose of the "national emergency centres" is to provide "temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster." In actuality, what we are dealing with are FEMA internment camps. HR 645 states that the camps can be used to "meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security."There has been virtually no press coverage of HR 645. These "civilian facilities" on US military bases are to be established in cooperation with the US Military. Modelled on Guantanamo, what we are dealing with is the militarization of FEM

بسم الله الرحمـٰن الرحيم Question: Is there any historical information about the advent of Islam in Nigeria and how it was ruled under Islam? What is the current political situation there? Answer: Historical perspective: 1 .Islam entered the northern region of Kanoo in Nigeria very early in the middle of the seventh century and from there it spread to the Hausa and al-Faulani regions in the north and central Nigeria. This spread was a result of trade activity. In the middle of the tenth century, it spread and became prevalent through the scholars of jurisprudence from Spain. These regions became an Islamic ‘Imara and were referred as the ‘Uthmani Khilafah or the Sokoto khilafah after ‘Uthman Danfodio and he ruled for close to a hundred years until the British annexed it in the year 1904 C.E. During the same period another Islamic sultanate was established by al-Rabih bin Zubair and was called the Borno Sultanate. The Maliki school of thought is prevalent in the Shari’ah courts of Nige