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Introduction Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, abu Hamid al - Tusi al Ghazali al Shafi (450-505), the great venerable philosopher not only in the history of Muslim philosophy but also in the human thought. It is amazing to note that imam is known in Islamic surface the proof of Islam ( Hujjat al -Islam) ornament o the faith, gatherer of the multifarious sciences, great Siddiq absolute mujtahid , he considered a mujaddid and reckoned on a par with the four imams. Imam Ghazali was expert of in the principles doctrine and those of jurisprudence. Shaykh Yusuful Qaradawi remarks that, like Umar ibn Abdul Aziz and al Shafi for their respective times, al - Ghazali is unanimously considered the renewer of the fifth Islamic century. Life and Education Imam Ghazali was born in Khurasan in 450/1048. He received thorough education in Quranic exegesis, Hadith , fiqh and kalam . His teachers were the celebrated scholars at that time. Ahmad ibn Muhammad al - Rad...

Necessity of the reformation is when the downfall happens in the course of time and place. But the reformation is not meant to bring something new. Their responsibility is bringing the community back to proper and strong path. The deviation of Muslim Ummah , formidable challenges that they face and necessity of the time are the main the reasons of the presence of the reformers. They will be the guiding lights of the community. The history is big eyewitness of the presence of the reformers. The verdict of holy prophet Muhammad ( PUBH ) about the reformers ( mujaddids ) has been happening. Shah Wali Ullah Qutb al -din Ahmad known as Shah Wali Ullah was born in 1114/1703 four years before the death of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb .His genealogy can be traced back to the family of pious K halifah of Islam Umarul Faruq .The forefathers of Shah wali Ullah are said to have migrated to India and found their settlement here at Rohtak village, when the Tatars started the destr...

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui POSTED: 9 JAMAD -UL- AWWAL 1427, 5 JUNE 2006 Of all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 CE, probably no one has received as much condemnation from Western and Hindu writers as Aurangzeb. He has been castigated as a religious Muslim who was anti-Hindu, who taxed them, who tried to convert them, who discriminated against them in awarding high administrative positions, and who interfered in their religious matters. This view has been heavily promoted in the government approved textbooks in schools and colleges across post-partition India (i.e., after 1947). These are fabrications against one of the best rulers of India who was pious, scholarly, saintly, un -biased, liberal, magnanimous, tolerant, competent, and far-sighted. Fortunately, in recent years quite a few Hindu historians have come out in the open disputing those allegations. For example, historian Babu Nagendranath Banerjee rejected the accusation of forced conversion...

SAIFUDHEEN KUNJU Khilafat and its role in history has been widely discussing today. According to some intelligentsia it’s a theocratic institution and Islamic thinkers say as Islamic political system. Nevertheless, in history, khilafat has big role and it had golden memories of justice, tolerance and fraternity etc. But today Khilafat is misunderstood by its inheritors as well as opponents. What was the influence of khilafat and the fundamental elements which were illustrated in the society? Several questions are rose as remarked above. Quran says that Khilafat is trusteeship man which must have to implement through obeying his sovereignty. The rulers as well as the ruled are to act in accordance with Islamic Shari’ah, they cannot behave as independent and sovereign legislators with freedom to make and enact any laws they wish to. All their actions must correspond to the will of Allah who alone is the sovereign and the law maker. It means the western philosophy of democracy (not...

Sheikh Y usuf - al Q aradawi Saturday, January 3, 2009 Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yousef Al- Qaradawi has affirmed Friday that the Muslim Ummah from Morocco to Indonesia was duty-bound to defend the Gaza Strip, and to protect Muslim lands from the enemies. "Supporting the Palestinian people in Gaza is a religious duty on every Muslim individual according to his capabilities, and no one is exempted from that duty" asserted Qaradawi in a speech he delivered before massive rally in support to Gaza in the Qatari capital, Doha. He also hailed the Muslim peoples "who demonstrated in the streets and expressed sympathy and support for Gaza", saying that the Muslim Ummah is alive and ready to sacrifice every thing precious for helping their brethren. At the same time, he lashed at the Arab official regimes underlining that those regimes lost the courage to take decisive decisions in order to lift the oppression on Gaza. He also praised the exemplary heroism ...

Shah Abdul Hannan A new day in the name of Valentine Day is being observed in Bangladesh for the last few years. Some papers are encouraging its observance. This day was not observed before in Bangladesh and probably in most of the Muslim countries. A group of businessmen and hotel-owners also are encouraging it for business gain and profit. What is the history and basis of this Valentine day. I reproduce below in this regard from the writing of Dr. Khalid Baig . “Most Muslims who indulge in many alien cultural practices, these days, do not know what they are doing. They are just blind followers of their equally blind cultural leaders. Little do they realize that what they regard as innocent fun may in fact be rooted in paganism. That the symbols they embrace may be symbols of unbelief. That the ideas they borrow may be products of superstition. And that all these may be a negation of what Islam stands for. Consider Valentine’s Day, a day that after dying out a well deserved ...