Islamic Revival

(What's Wrong with Capitalism: Part 1) The Era of Democracy" is the slogan used worldwide by the official media to define the 21st Century CE. With 118 of the world's 193 countries currently implementing some form of democracy (or the trappings thereof), the reporters do have a point. But they only reveal half of the story. In addition to democracy, other ideas have spread even faster throughout the world until they have just about encompassed the entire planet. We are speaking, of course, about the principles of "capitalism". Almost every country in the world today orders its economic affairs, and in some cases its social affairs, through a capitalist or mixed capitalist system. This has not, however, received the same kind of press attention that "democracy" has enjoyed. One has to wonder why this is so. The western leadership will say for public consumption that democracy and capitalism are unavoidably linked: when they mention one concept, they auto

It is natural for people to form friendships with others whom they interact with on a regular basis. Friendships can be formed through growing up in the same neighbourhood, meeting at school, college, university, social gatherings and via a number of other activities. Friendship is something common amongst people, however there are different conceptions of it. Some common conceptions include the following: friends will always stick by your side, you can always rely on a friend, you can speak freely to your friend and tell them your problems, friends like you for who you are, etc. When people have personal problems such as disputes with their family members or if they require advice they usually turn to their friends. Friendship in the West Friendship in the West is based on benefit. Friends come together on the basis of mutual interest, so they will go to the cinema, parties and clubbing together. They talk about the opposite sex freely to each other and hide each others secrets even i

The following is a translation from an Arabic leaflet. During the time of Rasool Allah (saaw) and the Sahabah, the meaning of Qadr was well understood without any ambiguity and what it meant was very clear. There was no debate. inquiries, or differences in this issue, except the discussion between Abu Ubaidah and Umar (ra), when Umar decided not to proceed in his trip to as-sham, once the news came telling that there was a plague spreading there and decided to go back to Madinah, telling the people '' I'm returning back, thus you should return as well''. In this incident Abu Ubaidah did not attend Umar's consultation with the people and the result of the consultation. However, when Abu Ubaidah heard of Umar's orders. he came to Umar telling him ''O Umar, are you running away from Allah's Qadr.'' By this he was objecting Umar's decision to return back to Madinah. Umar was amazed by this objection raised by Abu Ubaidah and Umar said