Islamic Revival

The following is a translation of an Arabic article. The events in Bolivia reflect a conflict between the US-backed governors of five provinces and the central government that controls only the other four provinces. What sparked the latest events there appears to the attempt of the President Juan Evo Morales to bring about new constitutional reforms aimed at redistributing the pastures and allot them to the impoverished farmers and the ethnic Red Indians. Meanwhile the United States has taken its stand that supports the white farmers among whom are the former rulers who control the fertile lands and pastures of Bolivia. When Morales discovered the axis of these five US-backed governors lined up against him, he back-tracked form any confrontation even before any dialogue, but aggressively went about gradually getting rid of those governors. He began by sending back the American ambassador and then began to weaken US influence over his opponents. Morales subscribes to the Latin American

The following is the translation of an article in Arabic. The US President George Bush yesterday 19th September, 2008 announced the need to act immediately to face the challenge posed by the financial crisis that has gripped the United States. He indicated that a plan was on the anvil for government intervention in order to salvage the markets and that this plan envisages enormous funds and also added that this involves certain risks. The president called upon the Americans to have faith in the economy. He said in his address from the White House that this is a crucial time to address the crisis and act to save the economy of the nation from big dangers. He further added that this collapse of the US financial markets was a crucial and decisive time. Bush's speech indicates the graveness of the crisis gripping his country and that the US is on the verge of a collapse. This is indeed a grim situation. He announced his bailout plan today 20th September, 2008 and presented it to the US

The following is an answer to a question we receieved: Question: If someone blatantly rejects the shariah laws of hudud like cutting the hand of the thief that is mentioned in the Quran with clear statements such as 'I believe that is backward' or 'these rules are not part of Islam and I believe they should not be applied today', etc as some of the modernists do, does this take someone outside of the fold of Islam and make them an apostate? Answer: The following is a translation of an extract from the book entitled 'The punishement system of Islam' (Nizam al-Uqubat fil Islam) by Sheikh Abdul Rahman Maliki which answers your question: The apostate is the one who disbelieves after his Islam so everyone who disbelieves after his Islam becomes an apostate. A Muslim disbelieves in four ways: Doctrine/belief ( 'itiqad ), doubt ( shakk ), saying and action. As for belief, therein are two aspects. Firstly, the decisive belief in what came a decisive prohibition ag