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Curiosity Rover lands on Mars – magnificent!
By
Aziz Poonawalla
Last night I returned from masjid at just the right time to tune into the live stream of the final ten minutes of the landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. The description of how the rover landed is astonishing – in essence, the car-sized rover was lowered to the ground with cables, from a…
Muhammad Asad and Islam as a rational faith
By
Aziz Poonawalla
There’s a lengthy essay by Talal Asad of his father, Muhammad Asad (b. Leopold Weiss 1900 d. 1992), a convert to Islam from Judaism and one of the 20th century’s great Islamic thinkers. I found this part particularly resonant about how at its core, Islam is an appeal to reason as well as faith: The…
a religion of Peace vs a religion of Justice
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: “In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.” The face of terror is…
a lifetime between one adhaan and one salaat
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Aziz Poonawalla
“When we are born adhaan is given but no salat. When we pass away salat is prayed but no adhaan. The adhaan given at the time of our birth is the adhaan for the salat prayed at the time of our death. That’s how short life is, the time between adhaan and salat. So hate…
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