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Safar-e-Arbaeen:A Journey of 90 km by foot from Najaf to Kar...
Sajad Hussain
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:There no one asks about your religion or sect, Every zair is honorable and every zair get treated like royalty. Even the poor who don’t have anything to serve zaireens managed to give tissue papers to zaireens and sometimes massaging their feets and back and encouraging them. They don’t take even a single penny from zaireen for their services. By:Sajad Hussain There were times when I was packing and I’d sit back and wonder as to what it ‘ll actually be like to walk...
Interrogating our Public Health Care System...
( India )
The repetition of the ghastly episode were 49 children died in Farrukhabad at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital this September is nothing but a reflection of our health inequities that is deep rooted in our public healthcare system. In all 19 children died during delivery and 30 children at the hospital’s unit for newborns, reviving memories of Gorakhpur tragedy. This article reflects upon the idiosyncrasies and blemishes that is feeding our public healthcare and argues desperately for a need...
That open letter to Sultan of SSa’ad Abubakar by Musal Al-...
( Africa )
History is a living testimony to the fact that Islam in Bilad’u-Sudan has indeed come along way. In short, Islam is an integral part of the history of West Africa. As you are well aware, Sunni Islam is the dominant current that has found its way to West Africa since the emergence of the religion in the Arabian Peninsula. However, Shi’a Islam has only existed in pockets and clusters across Africa. That has been the situation until its massive gains lately with the eruption of 1979 Islamic revolution...
Remembering Mohamed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, late Grand Mufti...
( Syria )
Damascus:He was one of the most widely read Muslim (Sunni) scholars in the world who stood firmly for the protection of Syria’s sovereignty. Following the invasion of Syria in March 2011, Al-Bouti criticized anti-government hooliganism and appealed to the public not to follow “calls of unknown sources that want to exploit mosques to incite sedition and chaos in Syria.” That made him an enemy of AlQaeda, FSA and their Western sponsors from the start of the proxy war.
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Modern Muslims and Growing Immorality...
Saif Ali Budgami
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Happening around our valley as youth adversely diverted through different immoral activities which not only affected the present generation in our society but also ruined the future generation of our civilization. Saif Ali Budgami Prophet Mohammad (p.b.u.h) “ I have been sent to renovate the morals in you” Exactly a group of people especially in our Kashmir valley have abandoned thinking and adopted the habit of blaming every event in their lives on “Luck!” “Amazing...
Kashmiri Marriage, A Social Menance...
Saif Ali Budgami
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Marriage has Islamically the greatest importance in the realm of Islam.However it seems to have taken the worst image, outside the image of Islam in Kashmir.This heavenly blessing has been converted into curse in the valley, surely the threat for the financially backward people. Saif Ali Budgami “And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for...
Article 35-A: and the state’s Autonomy is in larger de...
Mohammad Iqbal Mir
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Accession to the Indian Union and its special status are two sides of same coin and if there is a debate on the Article, you will have to debate the accession itself:By Mohammad Iqbal Mir The 1927 Hereditary State Subject Order granted to the state subjects the right to government office as well as the ownership of land, which were not available to non-state subjects. It must be noted that the Princely states were “state subjects”, not British colonial subjects. The accession of Jammu...
No right to Celebrate Independence Day or raise Pakistani fl...
Syed Karar Hashmi
( Jammu and Kashmir )
The people of Kashmir have caught between the bloodbath and turmoil from the both sides India and Pakistan. The India claim Kashmir as an integral part, on the other hand, Pakistan believe that Kashmir is our Jugular Vein. Kashmir’s are suffering from decades and our Voice are unheard, muzzled and misleaded. By:Syed Karar Hashmi The people of Kashmir have caught between the bloodbath and turmoil from the both sides India and Pakistan. The India claim Kashmir as an integral...
Meet The 15 Year Old Kashmiri Ragpicker Who is Now SMC’...
Nasir Khuehami
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Bilal Ahmad Dar, an 15 -year old ragpicker who earned his living by cleaning Wular Lake in North Kashmir’s Bandipora District has been appointed brand ambassador of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC).
BY:NASIR KHUEHAMI
Bilal Ahmad Dar, an 15 -year old ragpicker who earned his living by cleaning Wular Lake in North Kashmir’s Bandipora District has been appointed brand ambassador of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC).
For the last five years, Bilal Ahmad Dar, who...
Aga Syed Yousuf Al-Moosvi Kashmiri:A sign of Unity & Ju...
Saif Ali Budgami
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Aga sahab was famous for his sense of justice. The landmark verdicts became so popular that Sunnis, Shias, Pandits and Sikhs would come with their cases to Aga sahib. There have been number of occasions when the District Court too followed the suit and sent some extremely complex cases to the court of Aga Syed Yousuf Mosavi. By: Saif Ali Budgami Kashmir valley has been the hub of great saints since centuries and Sufis visited the valley to preach Islam, and that aspect of the Kashmiri history and...