Ahle Aqal

Islam began to lose its living spirit when its followers were led to believe that the Quranic term  mohammadun  or mohammadin referred solel...

Arafat - The Field of Recognition and the Awakening of the Self In the deeper Quranic and philosophical sense, Arafat (عرفات) may be contem...

TO QURAN ALONE FOLLOWERS / QURANIST: When discussing any “Islamic topic” with Quran-alone followers, one of their most repeated assertions i...

  TO QURAN ALONE FOLLOWERS: Reducing faith to the blind acceptance of a single book or the unquestioned following of one individual misses t...

Know yourself - and polish the mirror of your being. For the deepest obscurity is not outside you, but the dust that gathers upon your own p...

Islam in India: Trade Before Conquest A common misconception in historical narratives is that Islam spread in India primarily through milita...

GOOD FRIDAY - ISLAMIC CONCEPT A metaphysical and mystical reading of   Good Friday   moves beyond history into   symbol, consciousness, and ...

DARABA - THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD WORD The primary sense of the Arabic root  ḍ–r–b (daraba)  emerges from a concrete, physical act - to strike...

Deen  - The Life Of Giving Back - Law Of Return  The word  Deen  may be understood, in its deeper sense, as  giving back  - as a devoted mov...

  DIFFERENCE BETWEEN   BIG AND SMALLER ALLAH The Quran presents a powerful idea about reality of human beings. It begins with the understand...

  FIXED MENTALITY OF MUSLIMS At the risk of sounding blunt, one cannot ignore a troubling tendency within many Muslim circles: a reluctance ...