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Finding Unique Words in a Quranic Chapter

Posted on January 4, 2019

A Quranic chapter is a world by itself. Quranic chapters in Arabic are called surah, and one of the two meanings of this word means a boundary wall. That is so because each surah is like a wall that has its own meaning and theme kept inside. [Read More]

The priority of ideology over legislation

counting Makki and Madani words in the Quran

Posted on December 4, 2018

The Quran started to reveal in Makkah for a total period of 13 years. Then, the Prophet migrated to Medina and stayed there for 10 years before he died and the Quran stopped to reveal. The 13 Meccan years were much different in nature than the 10 Medinan years. During... [Read More]

Tags: quran python technology data

Are Grameen loans women friendly?

Posted on November 9, 2018

I believe the microfinance programs for rural women in Bangladesh and elsewhere are anti-poor and anti-women rather than pro-poor and pro-women. Muhammad Yunus loves to call it ‘social business,’ but they are in reality greedy business run by draconian loan-sharks. The word ‘social’ here is used for media consumption only.... [Read More]

Tags: society women

In search for a grand mathematical formula for social sciences

Posted on November 2, 2018

I came to know that the father of modern Sociology “Auguste Comte” gave the term “social physics” to a discipline which later came to be known as Sociology. I liked this term: “social physics.” I think the founding fathers (in addition to Comte, the holy trinity are Durkheim, Weber, and... [Read More]

Tags: society math

Seeking knowledge in the age of Internet

Posted on October 30, 2018

In this article, I do not attempt to evaluate the social media’s impact on our social life or how it affected the way we communicate, or what health and psychological threats these media pose to the mankind. These are no doubt big tickets, but they are not my subject of... [Read More]

Tags: knowledge internet

Random Verse App with Python

Posted on October 4, 2018

Each Quranic verse is a miracle. It must be so, because it is words of God and the Wise Allah. Won’t it be a wonderful idea to create an app that throws to you random verses from the Quran? [Read More]

Tags: quran python technology

Ten Years Since the Crises of 2008

Searching the Quran for solution

Posted on September 17, 2018

It has been ten years now since the world witnessed a series of human induced crises in 2008. Financial crisis, oil price crisis, food price crisis and ever-unfolding environmental crisis. [Read More]

Tags: inequality

Morality before Money

How one hadith gets into the root of today's problem

Posted on September 12, 2018

The Hadith of Prophet Muhammad -peace be upon him- goes as follows. [Read More]

Tags: money morality

Effect of Moon on Our Behavior

Posted on September 11, 2018

There are certain knowledge passed to us from antiquity that seems very strange to us in the twenty first century. Often arrogantly we dub them as false and myth. Not necessarily. For example, the effect of planetary movement (like sun and moon) on human (or animal) behavior. Today’s science might... [Read More]

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Homo Sapiens

Religious vs Atheistic Narrative

Posted on September 9, 2018

Allah has created this Universe for human beings. The first human was Adam. Allah created Adam by His hands from clay, and created from Adam the first women Eve. All things in heaven and earth were made for the offspring of Adam and Eve. All these bounties bestowed to us... [Read More]

Tags: evolution