Islamic Revival

The weakening US dollar is not a phenomenon restricted to its borders as its effects are being felt the world over. The fiat currency has insured that America will not suffer in isolation but rather ensure that its grip on power is firmly held in place. Allah (swt) has commanded that the Khilafah adopt the bimetallic standard. Only through the complete implementation of Islam will mankind be removed from the injustice and oppression of man-made systems. The sharp decline of the US dollar has been felt across the globe. Traders, unsure of the value of paper assets, are bidding up the price of commodities. The Associated Press recently reported that,”Huge price hikes have been caused by a weaker U.S. dollar and financial turmoil that saw investors stash money in commodities such as oil, which hit another record high Monday [April 28, 2008] of $119.93 per barrel.” With a recession looming and inflation on the rise, the US has exported its financial crisis beyond its borders to other count...

The spate of food riots seen across the developing world in recent months lays bare the fragility of globalisation and is an indictment on the World Bank and IMF and their dogmatic free market liberalisation agenda. Several near term factors have combined to propel the price of grains including increasing food demand in industrialising China and Indian, droughts in Australia and Central Europe and perhaps more insidiously greedy market speculation as traders shift into food commodities and away from beleaguered equities due to the effects of the credit crunch in the West. The increasing use of ever greater amounts of vital land to grow bio-fuels to power apparently more environmentally friendly cars in the West has also contributed to tightening supplies. World Bank and the IMF chiefs have been quick to absolve responsibility citing many of the above issues as the causes for the food crises. The doubling in grain prices has made vital staple foods inaccessible for the billions living i...

In the Name of Allah, The most Beneficent, The most Merciful Changing World Scenarios – Their Effects & The Blame Game Mr. Bush, the Indians and Chinese are not just eating-up the corn and the meat of the earth; they are sipping-up precious potable water; inhaling precious oxygen and guzzling the oil of the earth too. In fitness of things, you must ban the export of your nuclear submarines and bombers to them. Alternatively, you could kill half of them or even bomb half of their industry so that development is stalled! They should be taught to live frugally! Mr. President, how far do you agree with me? Your development, progress and prosperity for the past more than a century was good for the world, but the recent prosperity of India and China have caused all the troubles of the earth. The two culprits are responsible for your diving Dollar, the sub-prime collapse, the crash of your stock markets, the run in your credit-card market, the cave in of your banks and businesses – ...

‘Jihad’ is extracted from the source, ‘Jaahada’ and it measured upon the fourth verb structure, which means interaction between two sides, al-Mufa’ala. Another example is ‘Al-Khisaam’ which means to quarrel and is extracted from its roots source – Khaasama. Also, there is the example of ‘Jidaal’, which means to discuss or to argue and is taken from the root source ‘Jaadala’. In the tongue of the Arabs, al-Jihad means, ‘exerting ability and effort to do an action or express opinions’. In Al-Munjid, the words Jaahada, Mujaahada and Jihadan means, ‘exerting effort and ability to push the other away’. In the Tafseer of al-Naysaboori it is clearly stated that ‘al-Jihad’ means to exert effort to achieve the objective or what is intended. After all of these related definitions of the word ‘al-Jihad’ in the language, it is possible to give a clear linguistic definition, which is: ‘al-Jihad is the exerting of all effort and ability between two sides by the least.’ Based on the linguistic defini...

In the Name of Allah, The most Beneficent, The most Merciful Changing Worldviews amidst Global Revival of Islamic spirit in Muslims. It would make good sense for the U.S.A. and its allies to change their attitude towards the coming of the Caliphate. Foreign policies don’t change overnight and especially if nations that have arrogated to themselves the position of ‘world-policing, peace-keeping, protectors of freedom’ etc., because of the iron-clad, rigid mind-set. It would be better for them if they stepped out of their conceit and viewed the ground reality, repositioning their stands so that they are redeemed and not consigned to oblivion in changed situations. America and its allies have incurred the wrath of nations and masses due to the injustice and mischief that they have committed. Now that the power of the ‘Big Bully’ is waning, the nations of the world are waiting to take revenge. Iran’s standoff with America followed by India’s refusing to take the bait and sign the nuc...

At the turn of the 20th century the Ottoman Caliphate was in a severely weakened state. Nicknamed the “sick man of Europe” much of the Caliphate’s lands were under control of colonial powers Britain and France. Growing discontentment in the Arabs lands was surfacing as the concept of Arab nationalism, first introduced by the western powers, took a strong hold among some of the influentials. This nationalism eventually led to the British backed Arab revolt in 1916 that saw the Arab lands declare independence from the Ottoman Caliphate. Faced with growing disunity and discontentment with the Ottoman Caliphate, the Caliph Sultan Abdul-Hamid II devised an ambitious plan to awaken the feelings of Islamic unity among the Ummah and strengthen the Caliphate’s authority over the Arab provinces. This plan was the building of a railroad from Damascus all the way to Medina for use by the pilgrims travelling for hajj that become known as the Hejaz Railroad. The project was started in 1900 and final...

This article will describe and explore the Theory of Evolution. It will attempt to describe the theory, defining its main elements, and also take a brief look at the historical changes to the Theory – a kind of evolution of the Theory of Evolution! In addition, the article will seek to discuss the evidences used by the proponents of this theory and then provide a synopsis of the counter arguments. Introduction The Theory of Evolution has become the de facto standard used in the West, and indeed beyond, to explain the existence of creation and life. It is described as rational and scientific; many statements are made to demonstrate the strength of the Theory – such as the number of scientists who have given it their blessings and its widespread acceptance beyond the scientific community. Nonetheless, there is a strong perception existing in our day and age of the credibility of the Theory of Evolution. To some extent, it is discussed and taught in schools and educational establishments ...