Eid ul Fitr marks the end of Ramadan. For the last 40 years, we have used astronomical calculations to determine the beginning and the end of Ramadan. In our Forward Planner 2016, issued in January, we announced that Eid will take place on Wednesday, 6 July 2016. We invite everyone to join us on this … Continue reading The End of Ramadan
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Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination
Darul Iman Jamia Masjid Qurtuba’s story is as dramatic as the sectarian history of Pakistan. The newly-built mosque in Islamabad’s Margalla foothills is calling upon its followers to stop discriminating along sectarian lines and to start praying together – in whichever way they like – under the same roof. Zahid Iqbal is a local businessman … Continue reading Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination
The End is Nigh
According to the Mayan Calendar the World was supposed to end on the 21st December 2012. It is strange that human beings are so concerned with something of which they do not have any knowledge but their own death which is a certainty does not seem to bother them and they keep hankering after this … Continue reading The End is Nigh