Another Depressing Development

And there I was, just about to shut down my laptop after deciding that I’d surfed enough for the day, when my sister rushed to inform me of some “bloody incident all over the news”. Benazir Bhutto had returned to Karachi today after 8 years of self imposed exile. Scores of her “supporters” (some genuine [...]

Should Muslims Really Have One Eid?

Eid celebrations [...] are greatly predominated and influenced by local culture across the Muslim world, so much so that you’d find a big difference in the way it’s observed from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia. We all eat different kinds of festive food, we all wear different kind of festive clothes, we all really do [...]

Celebrating Eid Around The World

I’ve been busy compiling a indepth article on moon-sighting controversies in the Islamic world, and that’s why the belated Eid wishes post. Hope you’ve had a spiritually fulfilling Ramadan and may Allah accept the good deeds we have done during this month!
Eid is being celebrated through out the world on at least three different days [...]

‘The Wine of Islam’

Most modern coffee-drinkers are probably unaware of coffee’s heritage in the Sufi orders of Southern Arabia. Members of the Shadhiliyya order are said to have spread coffee-drinking throughout the Islamic world sometime between the 13th and 15th centuries CE. A Shadhiliyya shaikh was introduced to coffee-drinking in Ethiopia, where the native highland bush, its fruit [...]

Shoaib Malik & An Utterly Needless Controversy

Shoaib Malik, the 25 year old Pakistani skipper hails from the city of Sailkot, the north eastern industrial hub of Punjab. A versatile performer on the field, Malik had been ear marked as a future captain in Pakistan Cricket circles much before his eventual appointment following the debacle of 2007 World Cup. His obvious cricketing [...]