Islamic Revival

The Hajj in 2015, 1436 Hijri probably broke all historical records of the number of dead when over 1700 people died in 2 major disasters in Hajj, the first being the Crane Crash into the  Mataaf  (circumblation area) adjacent to the  Kabah  and secondly the stampede at the  Jamarat ( devils stoning ritual). According to  one Saudi Government  source the number of dead was 4173. The  Jamarat  has seen over 7 major stampedes which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds in the past 20 years. Yet the Saudi Administration has not seemed to learn a lesson and come to a proper solution. Hajj 1436 stampedes has several theories doing rounds with the most prominent among them being the  Irani  conspiracy behind the stampedes and others. The Saudis have become experts are trying to prove the  Irani-Shia hand behind all their failures and callousness. Instead of accepting their mistake and sincerely looking into how they can improve the hajj they comfortably pinpoint at others, to

The Dadri incident where a family was thrashed and one of their members killed has aroused lot of emotions and thinking in the Muslims, much like the Babri Incident had over 2 decades ago. Akhlaq Saifi, the dec eased and his family lived with over a dozen families in a Hindu majority village of over 6000 people and for decades had lived in peace and harmony until the Eid ul Adha of 2015 when he was killed by a mob of his neighbors and village men, for the crime of having consumed meat in dinner. Akhlaq’s family was an educated one with his son serving the Indian Air Force, a prestigious position for  a Muslim, but none of that eased Akhlaq’s suffering. The killers were a mob of over 200 people from his own village and they had been raged because they were informed that Akhlaq had sacrificed a cow, which is considered holy according to modern Hindus. Even though Akhlaq didn’t sacrifice a cow, the mob had decidedly taken the law in its own hands and had served justice to t

Speech of Osman Bakhash, Director of The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir, in the Shariah and Khilafah Conference, Held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, October 3, 2015 CE بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Outlooks on the Lessons Learned from the Arab Spring Former Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki said in a lecture in the Moroccan capital Rabat on 03/08/2015, that "All the dreams of the Arab Spring have been dashed", and that the, Arab Spring has "turned into a nightmare in Syria and Yemen and a vicious counter-revolution in Egypt, which will drag Egypt into a kind of civil war..." And he said that "the current Egyptian government is actively moving towards fascism and has already gone beyond authoritarianism". How true are Marzouki's words? Has the Ummah's uprising really turned into a nightmare so perhaps the Ummah regrets the sacrifices it made to end up in the renewal of the Western colonial grip under new faces? Or is it pre