Islamic Revival

Last week’s Q&A episode (1 Apr 2013) on the ABC brought together figures from various worldviews (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Atheism) to discuss questions about a range of matters such as religion, creation, the afterlife, values, jihad and homosexuality. In this program, the Muslim representative on the panel, Dr. Mohamed Abdulla, made a number of problematic statements with respect to Islam, such as the claim that: 1. It is not only Muslims who enter paradise, but rather anyone who believed in any of the prophets sent to humanity, including Jews and Christians who follow the original teachings of Isa and Musa (as). 2. One does not have to be a Muslim or of any particular religion to have the innate good nature and ‘human values’ that enhance society. 3. ' Our’ society is a secular modern society wherein one religion cannot and must not dominate. 4. Jihad means to struggle and has many meanings in Islam but has been hijacked by people like Osama bin Ladin to mean a

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم News Comment On Confusing Popes and Caliphs The Express Tribune  in Pakistan ran an opinion piece on 23 rd  March by Pervez Hoodbhoy:  "On choosing popes and caliphs"  which criticized Hizb ut Tahrir's work to revive the caliphate as "impossibly difficult." Before refuting this claim, we object to three words that are so out of place in the writer's introduction to his argument that they cannot be left without contention: "Today, several Muslim groups are  marketing  the  idea  that restoring  ancient glories is contingent upon reviving the caliphate". 1.    The word " ancient " is rejected when referring to the Islamic caliphate! That word, according to the dictionaries of English and the historians of antiquity, refers to the period from the beginning of recorded human history to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, a full two centuries before the birth of Islam and the establishment of the righteous

Weekly talk given by Br Soadad Doureihi on Understanding Usul al-Fiqh