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Articles with tag: FAITH

Hop Aboard the Interfaith Express

Feroz Qutabshahi   Nov 19, 2008   interacts: 4

Ironically, the main organizers of Interfaith conference at UN was His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, country with the worst record in history on religious tolerance.

The Capture of Christianity

Murad A Baig   Nov 4, 2008   interacts: 171

No execution in human history has been as minutely researched as the crucifixion of Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago. There has also been no myth like the story of his resurrection

Faith and Religion

Murad A Baig   Aug 24, 2008   interacts: 140

Though I have a Muslim name I am a non practicing Indian Muslim who does not believe in any organised religion.

Confessions of a Religious Fundamentalist

Abrar Hasan   May 26, 2008   interacts: 35


I just want you to understand that never mind the beautiful facades of different ISMS, at the base of it all we are all religious and all fundamentalists.

The Power of Faith

Nadeem Akram   Apr 28, 2008   interacts: 158

Religion has become a weekend thing, where offering Friday prayers means immunity from everything that is required of a Muslim.

Catharsis

MVJ Simon   Dec 26, 2007   interacts: 3

A walk through fire
Eyes shut tight
Stepping on red hot coal
Mind overcomes pain

The Gust of Suspicion is Not So Kind

mazhar butt   Sep 29, 2007   interacts: 2

Forcing its entry like a wanton thief
It steals from Heart the jewels of belief

Mother Teresa’s Moment of Truth

Mohammad Gill   Sep 4, 2007   interacts: 98

Soon afterwards the doubts and skepticism, not about her missionary work but her faith, began to assail her mind and lasted until her death.

On the Banks of the Wishing Lake

soma sarkar   May 24, 2005   interacts: 5

A lake protected by birds. Where wishes come true.

Psychemanica

Nadeem F Paracha   Feb 2, 2005   interacts: 11

I screamed inside. I played cool on the out. “I am the messiah,” said I. “I am.” “I.” My, my, what delusion. Since when was I reborn? Since he died. But what then when I die?

Hey JC, won’t you smile for me?

Farzana Versey   Dec 20, 2004   interacts: 94

Are we ready to believe that Jesus was not of virgin birth, he did not die on the Cross, he got married and was the father of three? As a woman, I find the idea of a male prophet who is vulnerable quite tantalising.

Bishop Spong’s Critique of the Traditional Christianity

Mohammad Gill   Dec 20, 2004   interacts: 11

Apropos of crucifixion of God together with Jesus Christ, Spong (9) remarked, “..any god who can be killed ought to be killed.”....

Of faith, Engineering and the Human Visual System

Irfan HAMID   Jan 9, 2004   interacts: 30

The creator of the human body must have had perfection in mind when he sat down on the drawing board.

It’s a Miracle

Alka Girdhar   Jul 20, 2003   interacts: 60

Faith runs deep in our veins. There are a few if any ‘non-believers’ amongst Indians, in fact in the whole subcontinent.

The Conversion Chiaroscuro

Farzana Versey   Jun 30, 2003   interacts: 131

Didi became a Hindu. Long before the RSS and the Pope got into a tiff about conversions. At that time it meant nothing to me.

For Better or Worse

Sheharyar Malhi   Jun 7, 2003   interacts: 78

Compromise is the key to a successful marriage but what happens when neither party is willing to do that?

Mutant Muslims

Abdullah Arian   May 9, 2003   interacts: 27

Another case of art imitating life?

Air Cdre Rizwanullah Khan Shaheed Memorial Trust

Samina Rizwan   May 4, 2003   interacts: 26

how will we make sure that the contribution to this world happens anyway, in the name of the dearly departed

My Beautiful Rizwan

Samina Rizwan   Apr 5, 2003   interacts: 79

Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.

Revolution of Regression

Ameer Afraid   Feb 20, 2003   interacts: 13

Establishing an Islamic Caliphate in New York

In Search of Peace and Flowers

Ras Siddiqui   Feb 15, 2003   interacts: 43

personal perspective on the January rally

The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses

Subroto Roy   Dec 28, 2002   interacts: 33

Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art

My Little Bit of Hindu

Ali A   Nov 27, 2002   interacts: 287

I made acquaintances with a consciously unknown, but subconsciously known part of myself, the little part of me that was Hindu, so to say.

1 Giant Leap - Music Review

Bina Shah   Sep 25, 2002   interacts: 6

The Kal Aaj Aur Kal of Secularism

Harish Nambiar   Sep 23, 2002   interacts: 124

There is a generation growing distant from religion, and yet engagingly indulgent of it. Not so much as a pathway to salvation as much as a familiar lane of the past.

All The Way To Maine

Dilip DSouza   Sep 12, 2002   interacts: 30

How some Pakistani and Indian kids found out that the enemy has a face.

ISNA 39th Annual Conference

Naeem Randhawa   Sep 5, 2002   interacts: 37

More than 32,000 attended the 39th ISNA conference in Washington.

Kashmir Fatigue

Ajay Raina   Jun 17, 2002   interacts: 705

I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return

Confessions of a BJP Supporter

Parag Vohra   May 13, 2002   interacts: 275

Why was the philosophy of the Sangh Parivar attractive to so many urban middle class Hindus?

Another One Bites The Dust

Shandana Minhas   Apr 30, 2002   interacts: 600

General Musharrafs ‘political correctness’ made it easy to ignore questions

The Aga Khani

Farzana Versey   Apr 26, 2002   interacts: 277

Since the Aga Khani does not fit a stereotype the believer cannot be recognised

We, The Muslim Americans

Anne Shamim   Mar 21, 2002   interacts: 499

We envisioned a happy co-existence

Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?

Zafar Anjum   Mar 11, 2002   interacts: 182

As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself

Riots

Farzana Versey   Mar 6, 2002   interacts: 520

Here are people afraid of their own

Beta Chala Gaya

Temporal    Dec 30, 2001   interacts: 16

The journey for self-discovery takes us through interesting landscapes.

The Meaning of Pakistan

Aisha Sarwari   Mar 10, 2001   interacts: 874

Metaphysical Politics of Pakistan

The Damned And The Damnable

Samina Wahid   Feb 23, 2001   interacts: 46

They left because they were out of the ‘right things to say.’

Goodbye, Allah Rakhi

Ras Siddiqui   Jan 4, 2001   interacts: 89

“Thank you” one last time

Anything But Vacant

Omar Phoenix   Nov 19, 2000   interacts: 29

I would like some thighs, cut the fat, I want it lean

Women in India: Are We Better Off?

Radhika Chandar   Sep 8, 2000   interacts: 156

What should the wife do if her husband beats her and troubles her?

Lets Live For Another Day

Amber Bokhari   Jul 31, 2000   interacts: 11

Pathways of darkness flowing, to a distant ray of light

Monday Morning

Omar Jamil   Jul 21, 2000   interacts: 11

like a slow persistent ringing

The Puppet

Zeejah    Jun 5, 2000   interacts: 20

His icy glare froze the puppet back into the shape, forcing the sap out of it’s wide-open eyes.

Touch

A Shiraz   May 25, 2000   interacts: 29

In the West, by the way, that is where our son will eventually go to study...they brutally electrocute an animal to death...

What is lacking inside...

MM    Apr 2, 2000   interacts: 27

Become a servant, that thou mayest be free.

Pagans and Competitive Conversions

Murad A Baig   Mar 12, 1999   interacts: 67

On conversions and reverse conversions

Incantation

Sheldon Pacotti   Jun 29, 1998   interacts: 3

Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine

End of a Long Winter

Sheldon Pacotti   Jun 10, 1998   interacts: 3

I wish they could make you better

A Day with an Orthodox Rabbi

Hisham Zoubeir   May 27, 1998   interacts: 2

Hebrew for God willing also sounds like insha’allah.

Recollections of my Grandfather

Asim Hayat   May 21, 1998   interacts: 1

They deserve their complete rest, after a simple, kind, and honourable life

For My Love

Mustafa A Menai   Apr 14, 1998   interacts: 1

...mullah wife gadding about in a dodge ’em car, quaking with full blooded mirth.

Status of Parents in Al-Quran

Kashif A Shehzada   Mar 19, 1998   interacts: 7

What sort of a relationship should we maintain with our parents? In what matters are we not allowed to obey them? Answers from a Qur’anic perspective.

Can People be Forced to Accept Islam? A Qur’anic Perspective

Kashif A Shehzada   Feb 21, 1998   interacts: 13

Does man have the freedom to believe or disbelieve the message of Allah? Who are the people who force others to their way of thinking? Answers to these and other questions, from a Qur’anic perspective.

The Beggar Boy

Mohammed Ibrahim   Jan 31, 1998   interacts: 2

He was an innocent-looking child with a bare back, his hair in knots, his body powdered with dust and dirt and his shorts torn in shreds.

Chowk Tales I

The Chowkwala   Oct 7, 1997   interacts: 5

The neighborhood paagal was busy cleaning the thick glass shell of the map of Pakistan. It was an amazing sight because almost always when he ventures into the Chowk there are people running behind and...throwing kachra at him...

Your Rusted Knight

Ali Riaz   Oct 6, 1997   interacts: 6

How can you moan and whine

Cry No More

Amber Bokhari   Oct 5, 1997   interacts: 6

I often ask my heart, when I remember your grave among weeds, ’Was it disease that killed you or was it the hatred?’

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