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The Companion  January 2013 Vol:07 Issue:08 Maryam jameela’s hatred of western civilization and materialism in all its varied characteristics is restless quest for absolute, transcendental ideals. But she tried to incline to be more traditional in life and in ideals particularly.   All of her criticism on western culture and its impacts on Muslim world are derived from her reading of her own life. Her life taught her the adventures of the lavishness of the ideas and the distractions from the real instincts and the lack of spiritual feelings. Her long way to find the ultimate truth led her to the direction of Islam. For her, Islam was that gives more meaningful life, purpose and value. In her first period, she was more inclined towards political and vibrant thoughts. But after coming to Pakistan she became more traditional, that does not mean that she became more spiritual. In fact she was against the revivalist tendency of Islamic movements and Islamic figures. She doubted thes

My Eid Mubarak for you, my friends. Don’t think it as mere a greeting. But it’s a humble gift from my deep heart.  In this current scenario, everywhere Muslims makes horrible problems and somewhere they get accused by others doings. Anyway this Eid says to you to accept with whole heart.  This whole month of Ramadan Muslims from all over the world were fasting for the consent for the God almighty. But the fasting is only accepted when he/she obeys all instructions and rulings of Ramadan. These regulations are not just confined to avoid the food and water and pray all five times and find some times to read holy Qur-an. If you harm anyone feelings irrespective of religion or any other differences your fasting is broken and if you wasting your time in back biting and gossiping your fasting is not worthy. Don’t think that your Ramadan was on best way because of your praying and sitting at mosques. Your Ramadan was not worthy if anyone did not get any tiny message of love and compass

The first civilian president of Egypt Dr. Mohammed Mursi has become the Egypt’s fifth president. He is first president to be elected after a free election and also first from outside the military. But his victory, over Ahmed Shafiq, 16 months after the military took over on the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, is an ambiguous milestone in Egypt’s promised transition to democracy. Mohamed Mursi had won 13.2 million votes or 51.7 percent, beating Shafiq who garnered 12.3 million votes or almost 48.3 percent. The Muslim Brotherhood victory was not a total surprise as they had been ahead in most polls since the revolution that ousted the tyrant Hosni Mubarak. Mohammed Mursi’s main priorities will be a new constitution, the economy and security. He has moved into his new office in the presidential palace and begun work forming a government he says will represent all of the people. Mursi spokesman, Yasser Ali, said the president’s key concern was political stab

Abstract The accession of the AKP to the power , by gaining 34. 4 % of the vote and 365 seats marked the beginning of a new era in the Turkish politics. For the first time in the contemporary Turkish politics a pro-Islamic party could govern alone with the old-fashioned Kemalist party Republican People’s Party (CHP) in opposition. In its serious attempt to restructure Turkish politics, AKP kept the Turkish military one of the most important Kemalist bastions in Turkey at a bay. The Turkish military has traditionally been against falling political power in pro-Islamic parties’ hands. So the new scenario raised some question about its secular credentials within some Kemalist and foreign circles alike. A fear of radical changes that may compromise the secular character of the State emerged from different corners . Thus this paper would focus on the evolution of Turkey as a modern nation state. It is necessary to have a glimpse of the history of Turkey as it would make us underst

upcoming research Islamic political thought has secured a significant place in international theories. Islamic political thought has plenty of literature on this debate.  Since the prophetic, khilafat period and during the eras of monarchy in Islamic society this political thought has been prospered by outstanding Islamic intelligentsia.  The thoughts like Sovereignty of God and the man as his representative on earth were unquestionable during that time in Islamic society. Each and every Ulema defined the Islamic political thought by these basics. Basic sources of Islamic sharia’ are sovereignty of god, his divine words and prophetic teachings. Then the faith in oneness of God and his sovereignty became the basic elements of Islamic political thought. With the decline in Islamic intelligentsia and the backwardness of emancipation in Islamic knowledge, the Islamic political thoughts have faced tremendous setbacks. The Islamic society had to face the colonial challenges and the coming

How can we say that knowledge must be Islamized? The knowledge itself is Islamic. The basic of all things in Islam is pure and permissible. The problem is where un-Islamic elements exist. If the knowledge is amalgamated with un-Islamic thoughts, ethos and ideas which are against the Islamic fundamentals, then there must be an attempt to distinguish those un-Islamic elements.  "Islamic knowledge has no time or space constraints because Islam is universal being suitable for every place and time. Islamized knowledge will be for the benefit of all humanity and not monopolized by Muslims. The process of Islamization does not call for re-invention of the wheel of knowledge but calls for reform, correction, and re-orientation. Islamization is an evolutionary and not revolutionary movement". http://omarkasule-01.tripod.com/id319.html  

The Justice and Development Party (known popularly by its Turkish acronym Adalet Ve Kalkinma Partisi the AKP) secured sweeping victory of almost 35 percent of the vote in the November 2002 parliamentary elections. This landslide victory allowed the AKP to form a single-party government. The AKP was formed by the reformist leaders like Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdullah Gul who broke away from the Fazilet Party of Arbakan in 2001. The AKP is now in their third term after the splendid victory of 12 June 2011 in which the party scored 49.9 percent votes. It means half of the Turkish electorate voted for the AKP. The peculiarity of this progress is the successive victory of an Islamic rooted party in a ‘secular’ country where Islam has always been perceived hostilely. Turkey’s Kemalist elite had always tried to portray Turkey as secular and continued to deny the role of Islam in public sphere. But the AKP’s successive victories and increasing religious consciousness insist

http://www.tccb.gov.tr/speeches-statements/344/82302/addreb-by-he-abdullah-gul-to-the-founding-abembly-of-tunisia.html Mr. Speaker, Distinguished Deputies, Dear Guests, I am honored to address this assembly where the national will of the Tunisian people with whom we have deep-rooted amity and friendship is truly displayed. It is a great privilege for me to address you who are building the future of Tunisia, which ignited the fuse of the Arab Spring and the Arab Awakening. I would like to evince my excitement and pride on behalf of myself and my nation to deliver a speech, as the first foreign head of state, to the representatives of Tunisia. I am excited as you are a torch that will illuminate the future of both Tunisia and the whole of the Arab world. I am excited as this assembly is an edifice of democracy to which all our sister countries, which have struggled and are struggling for freedom, rights, justice and honor at all costs, turn their faces. I am excited as you are not writi