Month: September 2018
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Islam in the 21st Century
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Are Ahadith a Source of Legislation Alongside the Qur’an?
People sometimes mix the meaning of “Hadith,” which literally means “speech” in Arabic, with the colloquial (Istilaahi اصطلاحي ) use of “Hadith” as used by the scholars of Islamic Shari’ah, which means “a narration that describes the speech, actions, or silence of the Messenger of Allah (saw).” Allah (swt) refers to the Qur’an itself as […]
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Money & Economics in Islam, is it a viable alternative for humanity?
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The Problem with Muslims and Da’ees (callers to Islam) under the Western Concept of “Representation”
One of the problems Muslim Da’ees have encountered in recent years, is the attempt of post-modernism to not only undermine the bases of Islam as truth, but also the problem of “representation” that is often flung against Muslim Da’ees to deny them any authority to speak, or to empty their words of any worth in […]
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Discussion with Dr. Kevin Barrett: Is Islam Reasonable?
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Creative & Financial Costs of Brand-Africa
By: Nana Oppong, President of Distinguished Scholars of Africa INTRODUCTION Identity is important for recognition and for cooperation or exclusion. It turns out however that whenever a person has countless characteristics such as tribe affiliation, place and time of birth, colour, height, weight, gender, political or religious affiliation; education or wealth status, talent, a habit, […]
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Future Implications of a Pre-Adamic, Global, High Ancient Civilization
THE UMMAH TIMES EDITOR’S NOTE: This paper, by Nadeem Haque, in a revolutionary way, changes the way we perceive, or ought to perceive history. It was first published in the Scientific GOD Journal, January 2012, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 20-40. Only minor edits have been made in this re-publication. The discovery of a pyramidal […]
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Is Feminism Dangerous?
Brother Daniel Haqiqatjou and Sister Nour Goda discuss feminism’s intellectual history as well as contemporary feminist discourse. They ask whether Muslims can be feminists given the moral and theological implications of feminist thought. There is also a lively Q&A portion of the program where feminist audience members challenge the conclusions and arguments made by the […]