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We need to make mosques gender Inclusive

Amir Suhail Wani The life and teachings of the Prophet and the Quran demonstrate Islam's inclusive, merciful, and compassionate nature. We come across incidents from the life of Prophet Muhammad where he not only embraced the marginalized and oppressed but his enemies and the enemies of Islam too. This tradition has lately waned, and as a result, we see a stark and ugly ideology in the guise of Islam that espouses exclusion. A mosque i...

Why Muslim scholars need to work on revival of Philosophy

Amir Suhail Wani Philosophy, which is nowadays identified as rubble of confusion and arcane concepts was seen classically as the purification of soul and intellect. “Philosophy is training for dying”, said Socrates. Both in antiquity and in classical times, philosophy was seen as a sacred and spiritual pursuit, but the scene has changed in the last few centuries. Muslims, after their contact with the Greek and Indian world, pro...

Quran forbids abuse of people of different religions

Amir Suhail Wani Islam is a religion practiced by a large number of people in India, Asia, and around the globe. As a global religion, Islam made its presence felt in different geographies, eras, and through different people. From the beginning, Islam encountered different religions, revelations, and faiths. Thus, it became mandatory for Islam to define its attitude towards other religions unambiguously. It had to take a stand on how i...

Fasting during Ramzan is meant to bring in inner change

Amir Suhail Wani As the holy month of Ramazan has begun, people are hoping to derive maximum spiritual and physical benefits from it. However, we need to ask ourselves is it enough to fast, avoid eating and drinking. Is physical refrain sufficient to experience the benefits of Ramzan? How can a Muslim make our Ramzan a unique experience of piety and religiosity? God instructs in the Quran that “O you who have believed, d...

Does Islam stand for suppression of women?

Amir Suhail Wani As the world wakes up to celebrate International Women’s Day, Islam continues to be blamed for the crimes of patriarchy and misogyny. It has almost now become a cliché to see Islam as a suppressor of Women’s rights, depriving women of their rights, hiding them behind the Pardah, and confining them to the four walls of the household. Muslim women are often represented as symbols of oppression, deprivation...

For true Muslims, Islam and patriotism are not clashing entities

Amir Suhail Wani Patriotism and love for one’s land are deep human instincts. It is natural for men and women to love the place of their birth, to be attached to the land that nourishes them, and to have deep feelings of love and reverence for their homeland. Everything that is associated with our motherland moves us and creates in us feelings of joy and vigorous passion. Some people have made unimaginable sacrifices fo...

Religions have contributed immensely to the building of modern India

Amir Suhail Wani From time immemorial, India has been home to different religious communities, ethnic and linguistic groups, and tribes. It’s no exaggeration to say that India represents the supreme example of “unity in diversity”, in which different religions fit like flowers in the garland. All the religions have contributed, in their own right, to the national integrity and the growth of India as one vast and beautiful...

Use of social media for dividing people leads to hate mongering

Amir Suhail Wani A strange phenomenon has taken social media in its grip and shaken the soul and mind of conscious people. The phenomenon concerns the deepening sectarian divide and the explicit dramatization thereof on social media by religious preachers across the spectrum. Social media has been virtually rendered a fight club where some of the preachers and speakers from different sects throw arguments, allegations and even abuses again...

The Internal unity of religions and the road to religious pluralism

Amir Suhail Wani Some 400 years ago, Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh spoke of the internal unity between the Upanishads and the Quran in his book “The Meeting of Oceans”(Marajul Bahrain). Dara was uncovering the deeper parallels that exist between the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism and the Indian mystical stream of Advaita Vedanta. Scholars have traced the convergences between different spiritual traditions of the world and t...

Islam is not in conflict with modernity

Amir Suhail Wani Change is the fundamental facet of human life and the world we live in. Everything in this world is subjected to the inexorable laws of change and evolution. In modern times, change is majorly linked to developments in human knowledge. The systems which do not respond to the change are either erased or exist in a static state. Modern science and philosophy have come to understand and appreciate the importance of change. ...

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