And we will surely let them taste the nearer punishment short of the greater punishment that perhaps they will repent.
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Missing the Point
can we talk about why corona instead of how corona
Seizure of your Lord
Corona the invisible army
A recent article in the New Yorker magazine goes as follows:
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waiting for SDGs
is it like waiting for Godot?
In a fine 3rd Feb 2020 morning, I attended a lecture by Prof. Jeffry Sachs on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and his pessimistic view on the progress made by countries and challenges which SDGs are facing given the increasing hostility towards multilateralism and the tilting of powerful states like USA...
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happiness without God
I was listening to a podcast where Richard Layard was giving a lecture at the London School of Economics about his book “Can we be happier”. I came to know that he is among the authors of the World Happiness Report along with Jeffrey Sachs and John F. Helliwell.
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getting out of the intellectual desert
I just wanted here to write anything after a long time. I am confessing an inner dilemma and sickness related to producing intellectual stuff. I have always felt that I have unique things to share with the world, but then when I wanted to sit and write an article something...
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Privatization as anti-Human
The trend is clear. Elders of neoliberalism often force their anti-Human bitter pill to the developing nations sugar-coated-in false promises of job creation, efficiency, etc. When their commodity is an essential one, then the suffering of the poor knows no limit.
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Listening and Reasoning
It is a unique characteristic of Islam that valuable information has moved from generation to the next through chains of authentic narrators
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Modern day's polytheism
One of the contemporary forms of associating partners with one true God today is taking a dictator leader as God and taking this dictators commands as divine orders
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Sura al-Ikhlas in plain English
Monotheism
He is the owner of all things, and hence no creation can come close in resembling Him. Exalted be He, the One Allah.
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Sura al-Msad in plain English
thorns
Once the Prophet Muhammad – peace be upon him- stood on a mountain and raised his voice calling the people of Quraish to a meeting. When they assembled the prophet said “If I am to tell you that an army is approaching to invade you from behind this mountain, would...
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