This was the first photograph taken of Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali. He describes the events leading up to the photo being taken in his Friday Khutbah on 14th January, 1944, as follows: “It was perhaps 1901 or 1902. I was
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BBC defends decision to censor the word “Palestine”
The broadcaster claims that allowing the lyric “free Palestine” would have comprised impartiality. In a ruling on 31 January, the BBC Trust defended its decision to censor the word “Palestine” from a freestyle by rapper Mic Righteous on 1xtra in
[Live Prayers] Friday Khutba
We will be broadcasting our Friday prayers live from the Wembley Mosque in the UK today. The programme will be broadcast at 12.30pm GMT as usual. Programme*: 12:30 First Azan Individual prayers 12:45 Second Azan Khutba Second Arabic khutba 13:15
Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage
This eighty-fifth volume in Brill’s Handbook of Oriental Studies Series attempts to fulfill the long-standing need for an Arabic-English dictionary of Qur’anic usage. Adding an important resource for the study of the Qur’an, the Dictionary is distinguished by many features:
Anti-Ahmadism in India
Indians, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, must learn from the sectarian developments in Pakistan, and make every effort to stop any expression of sectarian prejudice in public contexts. A few days back a small headline in the Urdu daily Munsif (Hyderabad)
Blasphemy Law, Apa Nisar Fatima and Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
Apa Nisar Fatima – the Jamaat e Islami legislator and mother to Ahsan Iqbal – sitting MNA from PML-N moved in 1986 the law that became known as Blasphemy Law. She then went to the Federal Shariat Court and got
The Stronger Sex – Spiritually Speaking
Question: Do you believe in God or a universal spirit? [IF BELIEVE IN GOD, ASK]: How certain are you about this belief? Are you absolutely certain, fairly certain, not too certain, or not at all certain? [IF BELIEVE IN GOD,
[Series] Part Three – Attitude of the Ahmadiyya Movement towards other sects
This is the third and final part of our series on the Lahori Ahmadis’. In part two we discussed in more details what our beliefs are and we answered the most common criticisms against us. In this final part we
[Review] Introduction to Islam by Dr Zahid Aziz
The following review was published on the 22nd April 2010 by D. Brian Burghart, on the newsreview.com website. It’s the nature of the way I do this column that it’s the things I’m most intrigued by that I spend the
[Book] Introduction to Islam in French
The project to translate literature into French has started and we proudly present our first book. This is the French translation of “Introduction to Islam” by Dr Zahid Aziz.

February 05, 2012
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