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Islam and Free Market Economy English Essay on "Islam and Free Market Economy" Economics has become the corner-stock of our present life both for individuals and nations. The Third World countries are fast moving to establish their economies based on the capitalist pattern, commonly adopted in the West. Free market economy is holding sway in most of the developing nations under economics pressure by the Western lending institutions like the IMF an the World Bank. “Join the band wagon or be left on the roadside” is the slogan flung at the impoverished nations of the Third World. The two great agencies of man’s character through history have been religion and economics. Unfortunately, present day man is more affected by the economic agency than by the religious, as he is almost moulded by his everyday work and the material resources he thereby procures. He is reverberating the words of Tennessee Ernine’s pop song of the 50s, “St. Peter don’t call me cause I can’t go. I o...

Islamic Economics and Place of Interest English Essay on "Islamic Economics and Place of Interest" Islamic Economic Order, based on the revealed teachings of Islam by Allah, the Knower, the Wise, is unique in its nature, teachings and methodology. It is fundamentally poles apart from both capitalism and communism possessing the birtues of both but free from their evils. Allah has given a warning in the Quran that anyone who is not prepared to give up the practice of Riba should prepare himself for war with Allah. But while all Muslims accept the prohibition, the controversy about the essence, nature and parameters of what has been prohibited by the Quran in prohibiting Riba remains. The meaning of Riba in the light of the Shariah as understood by the scholars is as follows: in the Arabic language Riba, literally refers to increase, addition, expansion or growth. In explaining the injections of the Quran, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) added cret.ain transitions of excha...

Is Islam a Name of Fundamentalism? English Essay on "Is Islam a Name of Fundamentalism?" Would you call it an irony of fate or international vilification of Islam by some nations that a religion which, by its very name, is peace-preaching has come to be associated with Terrorism and condemned under, the newly coined term fundamentalism. Basically, fundamentalism means nothing more than sticking to the fundamentals of one’s faith. Is it bad? Do not many Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, even the nonreligious communists stick to the fundamentals of their faith? Are they not fundamentalists by the very definition? Why is the term applied only to Muslims specifically and discriminately? Just to condemn them under a new name? For centuries the Western nations have been condemning Islam on the accusation that Islam had been spread by sword. When Western scholars themselves exposed the fallacy of this proposition, anti-Islam minds thought of a new pretext. They coined the ...

Can Islam be Enforced Through Coercion? English Essay on "Can Islam be Enforced Through Coercion?" Most ulema believe that public observance of certain rituals of Islam is compulsory and should be enforced. The compulsory deduction of zakat was hindered by the Shia community and was later made voluntary by the Supreme Court under the Principle of equal treatment. Most of us believe that there is no “compulsion” in Islamic, but in public observances the element of compulsion has always been on the increase in Pakistan as an Islamic state. Some of it has come through exclusion of the alternative view. Some of it has come through in the shape of “duties” to be performed by a Muslim in public life. But by and large public life has been free of the kind of coercion used by the Taliban in Afghanistan with respect to the “duty” of keeping beards. With regard to “hijab”, the view in Pakistan sometimes inclines to compulsion . The same view has been expressed with regard to the...

Interest in Islam English Essay on "Interest in Islam" Islam is not a religion, simply preaching the Oneness of God, faith in His messengers and a few religious rituals. On the contrary it is a complete code of life, which enshrines the entire activities of a normal human being. One of the most striking feature of Islam in justice and brotherhood. Entire edifice of Islam is based, on these two concepts. Belief in oneness of God and its messenger is a justice, not with the God but onto yours elf, into your soul and flesh. Divinely words are: And the sky He hath uplifted and He hath set the measure, that. yee exceed not the measure, but observe the measure strictly not fall short thereof. (55, 7-9) Maudoodi in his Tafheem writes that all the commentators of the Holy Quran have taken justice as the meanings of Measure. Set the measure, signifies that God has established the whole system of universe on justice and since we are living in a universe which is based on justi...

Diagnosis of Muslims Decline English Essay on "Diagnosis of Muslims Decline" There were times when Islamic empire was expanding from the eastern coast of India to the western coast of Europe. If we imagine today that such empire existed in the golden pages of history we first think “how?” We can see the boundaries of Islamic countries covering large portion of the world map but they are not one as they were two hundred years ago. They are now struggling for their independent survival but in their individual capacity. The question is why they are not united, what has rendered them to this state of disintegration, why they are not at the top of their glory as they were in their past? For all these questions only one answer could be have, that is, the negligence of the importance of time, as a philosopher of time could surmise, on the part of Muslims. For them time was a mere tool of prolonging their stay on earth and this at this time is prolonging the agony of their new...

Concept of Birth Control in Islam English Essay on "Concept of Birth Control in Islam" In 1971 when Pakistan comprised East and West wings the total population of the country was 120 million. At the time of the parting of the ways East Pakistan was 70 million while the West had only 50 million. In the last twenty-two years, while the population of Bangladesh increased from 70 to 110 million, the population of Pakistan has registered a phenomenal growth from a mere 50 million to 110 million. The growth rate of Pakistan has been much more than that of Bangladesh. While Bangladesh, which at one time had the highest growth rate and density per square mile of population in the world has successfully and ‘effectively curtailed this growth to 2.7 per cent. In Pakistan the current growth rate is now far ahead of Bangladesh as it has nearly hit the figure of 4 per cent. At this rate the projections are that by the year 2000 Pakistan will have more than 150 million people. There...

Challenges Facing Islamic World English Essay on "Challenges Facing Islamic World" It is not an imagination but a straightforward reality that the world system has changed rapidly. The changes that we have witnessed are phenomenal, affecting the structure of relations almost among all major pl8yers in the world. Of all of them, Islam, Muslim and the Islamic countries confront greater challenges than any other community in the new world order for two reasons. First, conservatives sectors of western societies that have grown strong in recent years have launched a campaign to malign Islam and Muslims after the tragedy of September 11. They have put in use many effective channels from media to legislatures, think tanks and influential lobbies. Driven by political and security interests, the campaigners against Islam blur the distinction between societies in Islamic countries at large and the minority of Islamic militants among them. They also deliberately confuse legitimat...

When Bilateralism Means Unilateralism English Essay on "When Bilateralism Means Unilateralism" India’s bilateralism is not a concept of relationship between two sovereigns. It is unilateralism based on arrogance. For this policy to succeed, the other side has to acquiesce. And if that does not happen. In the sixties “bilateralism” became a buzzword in Pakistani diplomatic circles. It stood for a policy to introduce some daylight between Islamabad and Washington. Before that Pakistan had been the most “alIied ally” of the United States, implacably opposed to all communist regimes, member of not one but two regional alliances, host to an American surveillance base from where the infamous U2 spy plane took off, prompting the Kremlin to threaten total destruction of Peshawar. Pakistani policy makers had thought that the country’s relationship with the United States was like a fundamentalist tribal marriage. You were, not even allowed to look at someone else, let, alone hav...

Wealth: Cure & Poison English Essay on "Wealth: Cure & Poison" If we earn wealth in the way Allah has shown us and spend it in the way we are guided, we can make good use of it and can save ourselves from its poisonous effects. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: For every Ummah (people.), there has been a trial and a temptation; the temptation of my Ummah lies in wealth. It is our observation and experience In day to day life that wealth is very beneficial but sometimes it proves to be very harmful resulting in humiliation, degradation, imprisonment, kidnapping an a poison.. It is obligatory on our part that, being a Muslim, we should guard ourselves against the temptation of wealth and its harmful effects. If someone possesses a very poisonous snake and he prepares an antidote, it will be beneficial both for himself and for other people, otherwise, its poison may prove fatal for himself and may also harm others. There is one hadith in Mishkaat. This wealth is plea...

Understanding History English Essay on "Understanding History" History is meaningless without a philosophy of history. It is nothing more than the flotsam and jetsam of a shipwreck. Philosophy, provides a compass to find our way through the tangled, intertwined paths and bypaths which the society takes in its onward march. Men make history. But, before they make history, they are made by history. Men are creators of circumstances as much as they are creation of circumstances. Two factors are essential for the making of history: objective and subjective. The objective factor consists of the conditions and circumstances, the economic, political and social environment in which individuals find themselves at a particular moment of history. educationsight.blogspot.com The subjective factor consists of human thinking, and action. The objective and subjective factors are dialectically interlinked i.e. they act and react upon each other. For an historic event, both the factors...