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Peace Be Upon You – The Muslim Greeting The Muslim greeting of “as-salaamu alaykum” in Arabic means “peace be upon you”. It may be news to many that this greeting was taught by Moses (Musa, peace be upon him) the prophet of Judaism, and Jesus (Isa, peace be upon him) …

Zakir Naik on NDTV talk show – A Review NDTV talk show : We the People Topic : Being Muslim in today’s India Telecasted on : 07-March-2010 For the first time Dr. Zakir Naik appeared on NDTV’s famous talk show “We the People” and has won many accolades in the …

Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish historian wrote about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Excerpt from “Lectures on Heroes”, p. 66. “They called him Prophet, you say? Why, he stood there face to face with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery, visibly clouting his own cloak, cobbling his own shoes, fighting, counselling, …

Dr. Maurice Bucaille was an eminent French surgeon, scientist, scholar and author of  “The Bible, The Quran and Science.” Dr. Maurice Bucaille, said in his book, “The Quran, and Modern Science” : “A totally objective examination of it [the Quran] in the light of modern knowledge, leads us to recognize …

James Michener in “Islam: The Misunderstood Religion”, Reader’s Digest, May 1955, pp. 68-70. “No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam. The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts this idea, and the Quran is …

The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word “Islam” itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gautama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism …

Allah says in the holy Quran: “Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (alone)…” (Surah Luqman 31:34)   Earth shattering quakes, fiery meteors falling from the sky, tidal waves the size of skyscrapers, and the apocalyptic message that our world is over. That is the premise of the …

Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in “Young India”, 1924: “I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind… I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam …

“Humanity had been a single community…” – Did Religious Beliefs Evolve Over Time? Sheikh ‘Ali Muhammad al-Salabi Source: www.islamtoday.com Allah says: “Humanity had been a single community, and Allah sent (unto them) Prophets as bearers of good tidings and as warners, and revealed therewith the Scripture with the truth that …

Professor Ramakrishna Rao, in “Islam and Modern Age” “After the fall of Mecca, more than one million square miles of land lay at his feet. Lord of Arabia, he mended his own shoes and coarse woolen garments, milked the goats, swept the earth, kindled the fire and attended the other …