The Death of the Aral Sea
The Aral crisis is the best example of an ecological problem with serious social and economic consequences, directly…
Issue 66 (November - December 2008)
20 articles
“You alone do we worship…” (Fatiha 1:5)
O Lord! I am determined that I will not sacrifice my freedom to anyone but You and I…
Women and the Qur’anic Prescriptions
One of the most sensitive and oft-debated issues with regard to Islam concerns the status and role of…
Reevaluating Cholesterol
The message to lower cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease has been widely circulated. However, recent…
Is Redundancy Always Redundant?
Normally, we associate the idea of redundancy with such concepts as wastefulness, uselessness repetition, and superfluity. However, there…
Can Genes Alone Explain Everything?
Genetics is probably one of the fastest developing contemporary sciences with an incredibly large accumulation of knowledge. This…
Time Management in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
In the preface to his book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Michael…
Khawf and Khashya (Fear and Reverence)
In Sufism, khawf (fear) denotes abstaining not only from all that is forbidden, but also from deeds from…
From Soap Bubbles to Technology
Children love playing with soap bubbles; they like to blow a circle after dipping a bubble wand into…
The Eighty-Twenty Rule in the Risale-i Nur
The famous Islamic scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) referred to mathematics in various forms in various places in…
Ruminants and Their Contribution to Our Life
And surely in the cattle (feeding on the pastures of the revived earth) there is a lesson for…
Knocking on Your Door
Open your door as a compliment, make your slave happy, Serve my spirit chants from the tongues of…
Modest Dress in Abrahamic Traditions
One of the questions I am most commonly posed in the United States is about the way I…
Soil-Cleaning Plants
Soil has significant functions for securing the maintenance of life on earth. The food and water that plants…
Greed
It missed the seventh anniversary of 9/11 by a hair’s breadth, but many will remember 9/15 of 2008…