Challenges Facing Islam and the Muslim Ummah Columnist Col (Retd) GHULAM SARWAR discusses the difficulties facing Muslims in today’s world It is a fact‚ universally acknowledged that current world crises have assumed alarming proportions‚ leaving everybody in a state of utter awe and fear. The US and its trusted ally‚ Britain‚ are seen hell-bent on ensuring world domination through means fair or foul. Yesterday‚ Sudan and Afghanistan were brutally targeted. Today it is Iraq‚ which is the victim of
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Historical viewpoint Unanimous faith of every Muslim on One Allah‚ His Messenger (Muhammad PBUH) as last prophet‚ Holy Quran and Sunnah/Hadith of Prophet became a binding force bringing together people of different region as one Ummah. However‚ anti-Islamic force couldn’t swallow this growing religion and unity among them considering it as major threat towards their ideologies and religions. Muslim history is replete with glory and down fall‚ having difference as a healthy and creative
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ARE WE DEFEATED UMMAH TODAY Hazrat Adam (A.S) was first man who came to earth. Later On generation continued‚ some people worshiped ALLAH so called Muslim while other called non-muslim. Non Muslim started to worship clouds‚ rocks‚ mountains‚ elephant‚ in short those things were worshiped which used to b strange. God has sent about 1 lac 24 thousand Prophets to take the people on a right way (Siraat e Mustaqeem). But still we cant say that all have obeyed them. Now a days we muslim people are passing
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Islam: The Challenge of Being Muslim The media is inundated with reports about Muslims‚ but do not accurately represent the Islamic Faith. Humayun Ansari (2003) stated‚ “Unless the root causes of Islamophobia are addressed‚ the deep divisions in our society will remain” (p. 8). How do we overcome this fear if the news reports Muslims protesting in violence against others unlike themselves in response to an anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube? Islam even though it is one of the three Abrahamic
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of the Muslim Ummah ............ "In the Name of Allah‚ Most Gracious‚ Most Merciful". The Two Periods of the Rise and Decline of the Muslim Ummah The Twentieth century of the Christian era‚ according to our analysis‚ presents a decisive turning point in the history of the Muslim Ummah (community). At the end of the first quarter of the century the state of the Muslim world had taken a definite turn‚ and there were some signs of resuscitation in the moribund body of the Muslim Ummah. If
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MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY‚ the definition of challenge is “to arouse or stimulate especially by presenting with difficulties.” (MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY) II. Thesis statement Challenge exists everywhere; everyone would meet challenge in every period. III. Preview statement In my opinion‚ challenge is a kind of breakthroughs experience which could explore oneself physically and mentally. Body I. First main point Challenge can extremely stimulate human potential and
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western culture in Bengali girls-----------------------------------------------12 iii) Women on the threshold of the 21st century-----------------------------------------------13 iv) The diversity of Muslim communities------------------------------------------------------14 v) Muslim women in the socio-political turmoil of the twentieth century----------------15 vi) Womens responses at the international level----------------------------------------------18 vii) Survey----------
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The challenges faced by the Muslim Leaders(dai) Challenges between Muslims There are a lot of problems and challenges even among the Muslim. Nowadays‚ the unity of Ummah is lacking in many places. Muslim society is supposed to be one whole community but there have been many internal conflict among us. The following are some of the challenges faced by the Muslim leaders as a Dai. (1) Racialism or nationalism even among Muslim themselves. A muslim treats other muslim depends on where
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ears. But in recent years it has become all too familiar. The actions of Muslim militants and terrorists have seared the word into American consciousness. Yet even with thousands of innocent civilians killed on American soil by Islamic terrorists‚ the full significance of the Muslim concept of jihad has not been grasped by the American public. In the days after September 11‚ 2001‚ American leaders rushed to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that had been "hijacked" by a fanatical band of terrorists
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Islam and its Challenges in the Modern World Islam today is facing challenges from within and from the wider world. The critical problems are the fundamental tensions within Islam. The attitudes and criticisms common in the outside world can be ignored as misguided or hostile‚ but the tensions within Islam throughout the world must be confronted. In a simple geographical sense‚ Islam has to come to grips with its changing centres. The religious centres define the heartland: Saudi Arabia maintains
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