Category: Editorials

  • Creative & Financial Costs of Brand-Africa

    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, […]

  • Future Implications of a Pre-Adamic, Global,  High Ancient Civilization

    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 […]

  • Why Do Some People from Muslim Backgrounds Hate the Islamic Belief of the Necessity of a Caliphate (Khilafah)?

    Why Do Some People from Muslim Backgrounds Hate the Islamic Belief of the Necessity of a Caliphate (Khilafah)?

    Abdullah al Andalusi [A tale of mental Colonialism and being ashamed of Islam] Many people who convert/revert to Islam are awe struck and amazed with the profound idea at the core of Islam, that mankind’s place in the universe is part of a purpose of existence greater than themselves – which ultimately revolves around the […]

  • The Quranic View on the Uniqueness of Human Beings

    The following unique paper was presented by Philosopher of Science, Nadeem Haque at the 16th Conference (held from April 26 to May 1, 2016) of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) in Lodz/Warsaw, Poland. There were 70 papers in all and 16 were published in the ESSSAT Yearbook in 2018:  […]

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    The Absurdity of ‘Racism’

    Zeshan Shahbaz Before we are anything else, we are human. Before we are black, white, yellow, brown or any other shade of colour, we are human. Factually, it comes down to male and female human beings spread across this planet Earth where colour and language are nothing but states of nature (1). This not only […]

  • A Detailed History of the Role of WW1 in the Destruction of the Khilafah

    A Detailed History of the Role of WW1 in the Destruction of the Khilafah

    November 11th is known in Europe and North America as “Remembrance Day.” This day was specifically designated by King George V in 1919 as a ceremony to be observed every year on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, to remember the lives of those lost from among the “Entente” (British, […]

  • Usage of Aql: Islam’s Prime Method

    Usage of Aql: Islam’s Prime Method

    Zeshan Shahbaz Every Muslim would agree that the primary basis of Islam is the Qur’an and by extension the path of the Prophet Muhammad (saaw).1 However, there is one question that garners a wide variety of answers – that is the question of method. What is the method of Islam? What I mean is, when […]

  • From X to Islam

    From X to Islam

    By Nadeem Haque                                                             One of the most prominent speakers on Islam, in Britain, in the early 1960s[1], was delivering a lecture at the London School […]

  • Nationalism – A Bond Rejected by Islam

    Nationalism – A Bond Rejected by Islam

    One of the ways of seeking Allah’s pleasure is to clear ourselves of feelings of pride and greed, to control our desires, and to do good deeds so that we may come closer to Him (swt). While many talks in Masajid around the world and Islamic speakers speak about the importance of the “purification of […]

  • High time for the Muslims to Uncoil Themselves

    High time for the Muslims to Uncoil Themselves

    Coil means to twist or move into a circular or spiral course. It also means to be disturbed or to be in turmoil. Uncoil means to straighten from a coiled state, or in other words, to be released from a spiral course or disturbed or turmoil state. It is safe to say that ever since […]