Category: Islam

  • Sectarianism In Islam

    1. It is important to realize that, unfortunate as it may be, it is a division that has already been made and accepted by the Muslims and by the adherents of these sections. It would, under the circumstances, be unrealistic to refute the existence of these sects. These sections do exist, even if their existence…

  • Pre-Islamic Arabian Thought

    Shaikh Inayatullah discusses the prevailing pagan Arabian religion and its practices prior to the coming of Islam.

  • Islam, Christianity and Societal Problems

    Islamic Education Trust, Australia Islam and Christianity both claim to be not just religions, but complete ways of life, to guide and solve man’s problems. Though not commonly known, there are countless problems in daily life which Islam solves and which Christianity (among others) is incapable of realistically solving. We will examine just a few,…

  • Non-Muslim Observation About The Reality of The Spread of Islam

    It is of no surprise to us to see the Christian missionaries playing on the myth of the so-called Islamic “violence” during its rapid rise. Some non-Muslims do recognize that the claim that “Islam is the religion of the sword” is more based on biased propaganda rather than on fact. As early as 1923 when…

  • Was Islam Spread By The Sword? A Brief Analysis and Responses to Critics

    Was Islam Spread By The Sword? A Brief Analysis and Responses to Critics

    Professor Thomas W. Arnold was a polyglot and a scholar of massive erudition. His magnum opusT.W. Arnold, The Spread of Islam in the World offers an unbiased and authoritative history of the expansion of Islam. It exposes the deliberate hamperings of some historians and goes directly to the records early sources to examine numerous claims.…

  • Dar Al-Islam And Dar Al-Harb: Its Definition and Significance

    Ahmed Khalil In his book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington says: People are always tempted to divide people into us and them, the in-group and the other, our civilization and those barbarians. Scholars have analyzed the world in terms of the Orient and the Occident, North and South,…