 Tolerance in Islam (Lessons from history)
By: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Allah is not the God of the Jews or the Christians or the Muslims only, any more than the sun shines for Jews or Christians or Muslims only ..
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 Non-Muslims in Muslim History By: Dr. Ahmad H. Sakr:This article is devoted to a special group of Non-Muslims, namely those who are called Christians (Catholics, Protestants, others) and Jews. Such groups are considered in Islam to be People of the Book. People of the Book are looked upon by Muslims as God-fearing, God-loving, and God-conscious.
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Find
your Self and find The Loving
Hello my beloved traveller with
shattered heart
Searching for his/her self
We are in this journey as one
So let us pick up the pieces and mend our
hearts
together (Poem)
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The
Path Towards Islamic FeminismBy Yaratullah Monturiol
For more than fourteen centuries we Muslim
women have had a privileged status… While Western women
awakened slowly, creating a climate of social awareness, in
the Islamic world we have been on the defensive arguing a
complete “ethical code” of principles, taking the form of
the sacred texts and traditional teachings that furnished
irrefutable evidence of a great equity in the status of women
and which converted her (in theory) in citizen with full
rights from the Islamic perspective. In other words, no woman
should suffer discrimination on the basis of gender,
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Female-Led
Prayer in Today's Newsday by Ahmed Nassef
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New
York Mosque to hold first woman-led Friday Sermon on March 18
A Statement from the Organizers of the March 18th Woman-led
Jum’ah Prayer Muslim Wake Up, 13 March 2005= As word has
spread in our community and around the world about our
intentions to hold a mixed-gender Friday congregational prayer
led by a woman imam, we want to re-assert our motivations and
objectives in...
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A
Woman as an Imama?
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 David
Shinn explores Islam in Africa
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Muslim Women and
Reproductive Rights:
Islam
and Family Planning
Islam,
Reproductive Health and Women's Rights
Islam
and Women's Reproductive Health
What
is Islam's View on Population Control?
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Islam and Sex:
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Muslim
Women and HIV/Aids:
Africa:
'Positive
muslims:' A critical analysis of muslim AIDS activism in
relation to women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town
Positive
Muslims" leadership in South Africa
Uganda:
Can Islam Polygamy Curb Aids?
ISIM
Projects RaH / Tanzania: Muslim women and youth responding to
HIV/AIDS
South East Asia:
Muslim
Women Preachers Plot Strategy on HIV/AIDS
Muslim
women leaders to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS
Alternative
Perspectives: A Collection of Essays on Contemporary Muslim
Society
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Muslim Women and Law:
International
Human Rights Lawyers
Mulsim Women Lawyers for Human
Rights
Sisters in Islam Resources:
Working
Paper Series: Women as Judges
Muftias: Women
Issuing Fatwas
Devil
in the detail:
Men have interpreted the Koran for their own benefit, a
founding member of Malaysia's Sisters in Islam tells Barney
Zwartz
Appointment
of Women As Syariah Court Judges
Women
as Judges
Muslim
Women in the Family and Society
Islamic
Family Law and Justice for Muslim Women
Centre of Islamic and Middle Easten Law resources:
Feminism
and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives
Feminism
and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, Introduction by
Mai Yamani
Islamic
and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net
Literacy
and Law:(to be updated)
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| Muslim Women
Democracy/Decision Making:
South East Asia:
Women
in Inherited Positions of Power, Asia
Working
for Reform, Malaysia
Africa:
Somaliland
Women in Politics
Increasing
Role of Women in Decision-Making Process, Tunisia Online
Development
and democracy are the best framework to liberate women,
Tunisia Online (Tunis)
Middle East:
Saudi
Women as Political Leaders?
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| Domestic Violence
Resources:
Are
Muslim Men Allowed to Beat Their Wives?
Violence
Against women Islam Muslim Women Leagu USA
Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq:
No
wife-beating in Islam (Part
1; Part
II; Part
III; Part
IV)
My
resolution on the issue of wife-beating!
Facts about Domestic Violence:
Amnesty
International USA
Amnesty
International UK
Muslim Women fighting against Domestic Violence:
Time
to Stand Up and Be Counted, Saudi Broadcaster battered by
husband
Justice
Will Be Done, NHRA Tells Rania
Research articles:
The
Verse of Abuse Or the Abused Verse By: Saadullah Khan
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Gender:
Riffat Hassan, Ph.D, Department of Religious Studies
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky:
i) Members,
One of Another: Gender Equality and Justice in Islam”
ii) Are
Human Rights Compatible with Islam? The Issue of the Rights of
Women in Muslim Communities
Gender
Equality in Islam Muslim Women Leage USA
Are
Women & Men Equal Before Allah?
IWF
Special Report: Women and Islam
Gender
Equality in Islam By Jamal A. Badawi, Ph.D.
Islam
and Gender Dr Mohammad Omar Farooq's
Women
In Islam
Women
Engaging in Bridge Building
Saudi
women push for greater rights
Saudi
women want full citizens’ rights
Saudi
woman defies law to save Britons
Sahara
women relish their rights - undivorced woman is trash
Honour
at stake (an article commemorating International Women's Day)
Main
Website of RAHEEL RAZA:
i) To
Change the Image of Muslims Let's Begin with the Women Toronto
Star
ii) Women
In Islam
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Human Rights:
Human Rights Can Exist
Within a Religious Context Moodhy Al-Khalaf
Are
Sharia Laws and Human Rights Compatible? Interview: Emran
Qureshi and Heba Raouf Ezzat
Amina Lawal's Case:
Facing
the Facts: Time to Demand Women's Rights
Muslim Women Surviving Slavery:
'My
life as a modern-day slave'
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| Muslim Women Scholars:
Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq:
Women
Scholars of Islam: They Must Bloom Again
Women
in Islamic Biographical Collections
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| Muslim Women Participation in the
Mosque:
Women's
participation in the Mosque by Dr.
Mohammad Omar Farooq
Women
in Mosques from Yahyá M's Home Page
Call
for reform, "He suggests that the mosque should be a
place for spiritual education and bonding and "cultural
traditions that are nonessential need to be removed.." by
Raheel Raza
Denying women access
to the ‘Main Space’ - A Betrayal of the Prophet (pbuh)
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and learning in Islam
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in Islam the Role of the Mosque
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| Education:
Saudi
Arabia to develop curriculum based on Japanese Model to uproot
religious extremism
Pakistan issues new law to monitor religious schools
Saudi
Reformists say Education System fosters terrorism, demand
change
Kuwait
rewrites religious school text books to help fight terror:
minister
Islamist
MP wants music banned in Kuwaiti schools
Women
Scholars of Islam: They Must Bloom Again by Dr. Mohammad Omar
Farooq
A
woman warrior of Islam
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Education,
Muslim Heritage
Music
in Muslim civilization
Music
Science
How
Africa can benefit from knowledge
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| Feminism & Islam:
Islamic
Traditions and the feminist movement - Confrontation or
cooperation? By: Dr. Lois Lamya
al Faruqi, IslamiCity
Veil
of Tears: Whatever happened to Arab feminism? |
| Marriage and Islam:
Social Issues:
Growing
Number of Unmarried Women Due to Rigid Traditions and Enormous
Marriage Cost
Sahara
women relish their rights - undivorced woman is trash
Changing
status of Morocco's shunned wives
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updated............ |
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Prophet
Muhammad’s Message of Peace
Prophet
Muhammad's Love and Tolerance for Mankind
Muhammad in Their Eyes
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Global Ethics
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Parliament of Religions-CPWR
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United Religions Initiative
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Greetings from Auroville
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Human
rights in Islam
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Wisdom
of Islam
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Scholars
of Islam & the Tragedy of Sept. 11th
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Eastern
Literature in digital format |
 Quote
from Abd
al-Qadir al-Jilani Sultan of Saints of Allah:
You are in isolation from the Lord of Truth (Almighty
and Glorious is He). When will you isolate your heart
from creatures and seek the company of the Lord of
Truth, going from door to door until there is no door
left, from town to town, from heaven to heaven until
there is no heaven left? |
Bahya
Ben Joseph Ibn Pak.Uda:
Life and works
Bahya
Ben Joseph Ibn Pak.Uda by Kaufmann Kohler Isaac Broydé
Dialogues between religions in Andalusia -
Haïm Zafrani |
Each
faculty of ours delight in accomplishing desire, anger
in taking vengenance, the eye is seeing beautiful
objects, and the ear in hearing harmonious
sounds. The highest function of the soul is
the perception of the truth. |
 Stop
thinking, and end your problems
Taoism
Information Page |
All religions, arts and sciences are
branches of the same tree
Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind
Albert Einstein |
 “I
offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you
friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel
your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for
unity and love.” 20th century Indian spiritual &
political leader |
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Peace
Can Only Be Found in God
For those of us who have faith in God alone, there is
only one teaching. Whatever religion we belong to,
whether it be Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity,
Judaism, or Islam, and whatever prayers we say, what is
it that we are really searching for? Only one thing-that
treasure which is God.... |
 Speech
of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the European
Parliament:
I strongly believe that we must
consciously develop a greater sense of universal
responsibility. We must learn to work not just for our
own individual self, family or nation, but for the
benefit of all mankind. Universal responsibility is the
best foundation both for our personal happiness and for
world peace, the equitable use of our natural resources,
and, through a concern for future generations, the
proper care for the environment |
 "The
essence of religion is the personal discovery of the
meaning of life, the meaning of truth. Religion is
related to the unconditional, total freedom that truth
confers on us. It is a revolution of the whole way of
living. Religion moves us from the superficial layers of
existence and encourages us to go deeper to the roots of
life. It is an inward journey to the depths of our
being." Vimala Thakar, The Eloquence of Living.
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 The
Many Profiles but One Face of Humanity A great diversity
in character traits can be observed within the one
individual – childishness, innocence, aggression,
domesticity, materialism, spirituality, adventurousness,
reflectiveness, impulsiveness, and so on. All of these
traits and many others are harbored within one bosom.
Each individual being is like a new stream produced by
fresh rain. Many such streams pour forth into the ocean
of humanity from which they originated.. Shaykh
Fadhlalla Haeri |
 The
Teachings of J. Krishnamurti:
‘Truth is a pathless land’. Man cannot come to it
through any organization, through any creed, through any
dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic
knowledge or psychological technique.He has to find it
through the mirror of relationship, through the
understanding of the contents of his own mind, through
observation and not through intellectual analysis or
introspective dissection. |
| Tao-Te
Ching:4 Limitless:
The Way is a limitless vessel; Used by the self, it
is not filled by the world; It cannot be cut, knotted,
dimmed or stilled; Its depths are hidden, ubiquitous and
eternal; I don't know where it comes from; It comes
before nature. |
| Rabi'a
al-'Adawiyya, an 8th Century Islamic Saint from Iraq:
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Sufi
Poetry:
Wahiduddin Sufi Poetry
Abu-Said
Abil-Kheir
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Islam Denounces Terrorism:
Islam
Denounces Terrorism - Harun Yahya
Striving
for excellence - HRH Prince Charles speech at The Muslim News
Awards
Union of Faiths
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| Articles
on Islam &Civilization |
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Islam
- Once at forefront of science, by Michael Woods |
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Understanding Prophet Muhammad Beyond the
Stereotypes By Dr. Alphonse WILLIAMS |
| Speeches on
Islam: |
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Prince
Charles' Latest Speech on Islam |
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Middle East and Democracy:
EGYPT
Tarek
Heggy:
The Absence of the
Critical Mind
Why
Do I Write?
Saudi Arabia:
Human Rights Can Exist Within
a Religious Context Moodhy Al-Khalaf
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Integration
issues facing muslims in Europe:
Need
It Be “Us and Them”? By Ælfwine Mischler (UK)
Islam
in Germany
Qantara
Toward
Global Multiculturalism
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Islamic
Bonds Provide Debt Relief
Erasmus Prize 2004 Important
Figures from the Islamic World Awarded
Polygamy: The
Second Wife Is Also Allowed to Stay
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Deir Mar Musa
Org
Muslim
Women's Freedom Tour
God,
Faith, and a Pen: The Official Blog of Dr. Hesham A.
Hassaballa
Rabi'a
al-'Adawiyya /Rabi'ah (d.801)