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Nov 22, 2009, 9:16 am
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans showed aggressive adolescents reacted strongly in two parts of the brain when watching pain inflicted on others. Arousal occurred in the ventral striatum, t... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 11:20 am
"Last Friday, after the dawn prayer, I stood outside a mosque on a remote mountain in New Mexico. The planet Mars shone like an aircraft coming in to land. But silence reigned: the dawn was, as the Ko... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 3:46 am
Despite the claims of those who say that religion is just status qua-est and always sides with the oppressors being an obstacle to social change, what is most interesting to notice is that almost all ... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 1:32 am
Inner clarity is certainly a big think to have. What can express the beauty in it better than this piece of Islamic art you are seeing.
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The winter is setting in, with Lahore's atmosphere app... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 12:04 pm
What Daniel Abdul-Hayy Moore calls as "the Sufi version of Harry Potter" he wrote back in late 80s is this book, "Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper" :: More than a decade has passed since... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 3:48 am
... out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the ... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 5:49 am
As i grow mature, both physically and intellectually, i am becoming somewhat apprehensive of the "possibility" of a more wider application of my intellectual tradition in my life in this age of post-... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 2:27 pm
The greatest Muslim theologian, al-Ghazali, who died in the year 1111, taught as follows: "A child is on loan from God, entrusted to its parents. Its pure heart is a precious uncut jewel devoid of any... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 10:21 am
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What is all about this emptiness I am hearing these days? I first heard it from a professor at my university who was an atheist and then came back to Islam, or perhaps converted to it. Wh... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 8:47 am
i can't make a guess about what i am going to end up doing with my life. i am one who can't make any routine, let alone following one. self-control, if it is anything, then it's the most d... Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2009, 3:02 am
Today we made an advancement in our search of truth, which in reality is anything but truth :) :: We bashed religion through the Marxists, only to prove its (i.e., Marxism's) true worth on which w... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 3:41 am
"'Everyone is born on fitra'. If you combine this human nature (fitra) with the light of Quran, it's teaching - you become a walking tafsir, embodiment of, 'Light upon Light,' vers... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 2:45 am
Going through P. Berger's article The Easiest Way to Change People's Behavior I have come across something that has testified some subtle intuitions I happened to intuit. When you have more bo... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 4:32 am
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This majestic and serene painting above is known as the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, a Russian painter (who died in 1935). It is a very fascinating painting i have seen for years. A... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 3:53 pm
"Beware the darkness in the grey areas."
-Abdul Hakim Murad
What I think this aphorism of Shaykh Abdul-Hakim Murad refers to really is what Islam is all about. According to a hadith, it's Islam t... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2009, 2:20 am
The other we were discussing in our Sociology of Religion class a term called epistemology.. I confess every time I look up its meaning in the dictionary, which I have been doing for some years now, I... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2009, 1:56 am
I have been given this "life-time opportunity" of doing a research on Wittgenstein (W) and his critique on Frazer (F) and Freud (F*). The question is: Where does Wittgenstein's critique on F-F* st... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 1:11 pm
Theory of liberation of women and equality of sexes really needs to be revised today. i become more and more convinced of its fallibility the more i study and analyze the nature of the sexes in the li... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 1:02 pm
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There are many things in the world that capitalism cannot give you, and i am talking specifically about those things on which it has its claims fixed. i am living in exile. in another cit... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 8:27 am
What follows below: This is what I believe. This is the center of my life about which all my efforts are directed, around which my days revolve. This is my world-view.
"TAHAWI'S STATEMENT OF ISLAM... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2009, 10:24 am
Surah Nisa, Ayat # 115:
"And whoever contradicts and opposes the Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) after the right path has been shown clearly to him, and follows other than the b... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2009, 10:00 am
A friend of mine gave a very wise advice. He said, "Don't have contempt for people, because the person you disdain may become friend of God someday - you never know it." Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 1:12 pm
After listening to the strange rhythmic lines in the preceding video, reader/listener may be wondering what sense does it make? Partially because, as it proves, you don't know Arabic, which neithe... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 12:42 pm
Frithjof Schuon says in the Light on the Ancient Worlds, "Man does not choose; he follows his nature and his vocation, and it is God who chooses." Yet there are people on earth suffocated enough, blin... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 1:39 pm
Riyad-us-Saliheen is perhaps when of the most read books of hadith in Muslim world. It was written for us, non-scholars, ordinary people (in terms of their degree of knowledge). And this is the beauty... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 1:23 pm
"Man is the proof of God. The man of God is the proof of religion." And that "He who knows himself, knows Islam."
-Abdul-Hakim Murad
These contentions should never be taken lightly for they are the... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 12:30 pm
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
"Seek, and you will be found." I wish to add: seek, and you will get the guidance. These days I really was feeling incomplete just for the... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 5:36 am
Chittick says that Muslims have stopped to think. One of the major reasons for that is that Muslims have brushed the Islamic model of education replacing it with Western model of education, the latter... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 5:09 am
"Beware the Shari 'a of the Cheshire Cat: able to bite but not to nourish."
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Oct 10, 2009, 4:21 am
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"In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful
16th January, 2009
Dear Fellow Muslims,
We are deeply saddened to hear about anti-Semitic assaults on British Jews, and a recent arson... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 8:04 pm
Remembrance of death is the best drug to treat the base desires issuing out of our ever-changing heart. Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 9:40 am
I am smiling at myself in innocence. Here is this self before me which is nothing but a dichotomy of what it says and intents, and what it does at the spur of the moment. Right now, what's the tim... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 9:29 am
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'What Islam is about is taking away fear. See if you are a Muslim what are you afraid of? The first thing you accept about Islam, the very first thing: There is no god but Allah. Whic... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 1:31 am
"Search of truth is the ultimate aim of intellect. Applying truth in every action is called justice. Search for truth begins with oneself, try to know who, what, why you are? This is the first and mos... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 10:42 pm
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Prophetic Guidance Regarding the Excellence of Reciting the Qur'an
by Imam Nawawi
Translated by Ustadha Ayesha Bewley
"991. Abu Umama said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah, may All... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 2:33 pm
Umer: Imam Ahmed said: Intellect is a natural thing. And Allah says in Qur'an: "Verily in this is a Message for any that has a heart..." (Surah 50: verse 37.) Now, these scholars call qalb (heart)... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 2:25 pm
I don't know why but many of traditional Muslims (at least outwardly) are inclined not towards accepting some of the sayings of Prophet, as opposed to their accepting any verse of the Holy Qur'... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 7:51 am
Belief is a great power. When I see that a proposition of mine is believed by another mind,my own conviction of its truth is thereby immensely increased.Muhammad Iqbal, Stray Reflections, p. 23. Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 12:43 am
Imam al-Junaid said:
The root cause of all the evil and crime in this world is 'ghaflah' (heedlessness/negligence).We are people of negligence. We day dream all the time even on busy roads. On... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 3:15 pm
If God wills it, plain as it is, after every delusion there is light. But I cannot think of delusion following light (awareness, knowledge, etc.), because after light there can be only light, more lig... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 1:51 pm
I have successfully abandoned sites like facebook and God knows I am not tempted to activate my account again. Horrible images pop up in my mind when I think of these. I feel as if I would become thir... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2009, 2:27 pm
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An unjust king asked a devotee what kind of worship is best. he replied, "For thee the best is to sleep one half of the day so as not to injure the people for a while."Sa'adi
In the ... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2009, 2:23 pm
Quran says in chapter no. 2, verse 28, 29, asking man to use his intellect (al-aql) to surrender before the Truth most evident, then how can one deny it?; and may it just not become unclear to us like... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 1:28 pm
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Muslims should not fall apart. They are not here to disintegrate. They are the best Ummah. They command good and forbid evil. But why have they disintegrated? Why there condition is most ... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 12:35 pm
Dr. Agha: I have your image in my eyes so much that whatever I perceive I think it is you. This is Sufism.
I am my beloved and my beloved is I,
We are two spirits residing in one body,
So when you see... Comment - Like
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