Islamic Revival

America the land of the free has the highest number of prisoners In a recent article in the New York Times, it was reported that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. The US has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation. China, which is four times more populous than the United States , is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. Criminologists point to higher levels of violent crime, harsher sentences, racial turmoil, consumption of drugs, the American temperament and the lack of a social safety net, as factors behind the burgeoning prison population. Whilst these reasons may be contributing factors they are certainly not the root causes. The underlying cause is America ’s freedom and democracy, which no politician or legal expert is prepared to admit. And wherever, America has exported its version of ‘freedom and democracy’ the world has witnessed

بِسْـــمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰـــنِ الرَّحِيـــم Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, the Chief Prosecutor of Turkey petitioned the Turkish Contitution Court on the evening of Friday, 14th March, 2008 asking the court to close down the ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP and ban its political activities along with 71 of its politicians, especially the republic’s president Abdullah Gul, Recep Tayyip Erdugan, the Prime Minister, former speaker of the parliament Bulent Arinsh for 5 years. Under the authority vested with the chief prosecutor office in the constituion court, he monitors the activities of the political parties, their statements as well as the activities of their leaders. He studies their compliance with the constitution as well as the pricicples on which the republic is founded. The chief prosecutor documents and archives all statements and press releases issued by these political parties and their leaders. His monitoring of the activities of political parties is to ensure that the

The following is the transcript of a talk recently delivered on this subject. الْفِتْنَةُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ “Fitna is worse than slaughter” [TMQ 2: 191] Allah (swt) emphasized in this verse the gravity of Fitna, meaning discord, strife, unrest, fragmentation and the like – that it is worse than killing. It is ironic that Geert Wilders chose this title for his movie. He was trying to be clever in using this term which has been mentioned in more than 60 different verses of the Quran, in order to attack the Quran itself. He attempted in his movie to show a link between verses of the Quran and mindless violence like the killing of civilians – in the end concluding that the Quran itself is the problem and thus Muslims should either tear out pages of the Quran or that the Quran should be banned. Bi’isnillah, today I want to respond to the accusations he has put within his movie regarding Ayaat of the Quran and expose how in reality it is the Western ideology of Capitalism or what they

Abu-l ‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Khallikan (أبو العباس أحمد بن خلكان), (September 22, 1211 – October 30, 1282) was a Kurdish Muslim scholar of the 13th century. He was born in Arbil, Iraq in 1211. By his talents and his writings he received the title of the most learned man and the ablest historian of that city. He studied jurisprudence at Mosul and after a brief stay at Damascus, settled in Cairo, where he gained pre-eminence as a jurist, a theologian, and a grammarian. He married in 1252 CE. He left Cairo to become judge (Qadi) of Damascus in 1269 CE. When he was removed later, he returned to Cairo to take up a professorship and to act as deputy to the chief judge. He returned to Damascus to a triumphant welcome to become kadi again, a post he relinquished in 1281 CE, one year before his death. Ibn Khallikan’s most famous work is The Obituaries of Eminent Men (Wafayat al-Ayan), often referred to as The Biographical Dictionary. He started to work on it in 1256 until 1274. It has always

The english translation of Ibn Hisham's Seerah of the Prophet (saw) is available to download from: Seerah Ibn Hisham

Britain’s former Prime Minister Blair caught red handed On 23/4/2008 former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was caught traveling on a train without a ticket and no cash to pay for the fare. The ticket costs $49 dollars, while Blair’s income since June 2007 amounts to a million dollars. In 2000, Blair's wife Cherie, was fined after being caught riding a train without a ticket. What is noteworthy is that Blair deflected all accusations of nepotism, embezzlement and corruption, while he was prime minister. He employed expensive advisors and lawyers to protect himself from the full arm of the law. Yet, all it took was a normal train journey to reveal Blair’s true colours. Ethiopian crusaders slaughter Somalian Muslims On 23/4/2008 Amnesty International accused Ethiopian soldiers of killing 21 people, including an imam and several Islamic scholars, at a Mogadishu mosque and said seven of the victims had their throats slit. The human rights organization is the latest voice to speak out

Increases in the price of rice, wheat, corn, cooking oil, milk and other foodstuff have sparked violent protests in many countries including Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Indonesia. In Pakistan and Thailand, army troops have been deployed to avoid food being seized from fields and warehouses. On 14/4/2008 World Bank has reported that global wheat prices jumped 181 per cent over the 36 months to February 2008, with overall food prices up 83 per cent. Robert Zoellick, the World Bank president, said, Based on a very rough analysis, we estimate that doubling of food prices over the last three years could potentially push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty. There are two primary factors that have prompted higher prices. First, the increase in the price of oil has caused the price of agriculture inputs, such as seeds, fertilizers, machinery etc to go up. Higher transportation costs have also added to the overal