Backbiting is unforgivable
Islam strictly forbids spying into people’s sins and secrets and backbiting. It also forbids talking ill of people…
Issue 25 (January - March 1999)
12 articles
Being Shaped by Ramadan
At this time when we experience occasions, of much sorrow and some contentment, we sense the promise in…
Euthanasia: Mercy or Murder?
Euthanasia is one of the most widely discussed issues among health care professionals as well as ordinary people.…
Language and Cognition: An Unexplored Territory
The desire to investigate the secrets of knowledge and cognition goes back to ancient times. The Egyptians, during…
Victim Rights in Islam and Western Legal Systems: A Comparative Anlysis
1. Individual and society as victim While it is true that crimes committed against an individual usually affect…
Understanding in Teaching
I. INTRODUCTION Although it is difficult to explain the concept of understanding briefly, we will try to give…
Rivileging Evolution Theory in Schools
Evolution is seen as the only scientific explanation of how life began and developed on earth. Creation, by…
Reflections on Man and Life
Glory be to God! How thin is the veil between the manifest and inner, invisible dimensions of existence,…
Social Impacts of the Theory of Evolution
Social Darwinism refers to the attempts to utilize the evolutionary theory of Darwin to give descriptions of society…
The Imperatives of Marifa the Pitfalls of Modernism
My chief aim was to stress how precious the perspective of ma‘rifa is, not only as the dimension…
Future Telecommunication Networks
Over the last two decades telecommunications technology has evolved dramatically from analog to the new digital systems. Where…
Destiny and Man’s Free Will
The arguments for the existence of man’s free will Before passing on the arguments for the existence of…