Islamic Sharia Laws *Putting India’s Muslim Personal Law in Perspective<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1573> *
*Muslim Personal Law is not tantamount to shari’a* Secondly, as the great Indian jurist *A. A. A. Fyzee* explained in 1963, MPL is not tantamount to *shari’a* because so many dimensions of law from the colonial period on, including criminal law and the all-important law of precedent and procedure, are secularly defined. In a headline-grabbing alleged rape by her father-in-law of a poor Muslim country woman named Imrana two years back, there was considerable discussion of MPL, even an ill-informed denunciation of it in *The New York Times* by the acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/opinion/10rushdie.html>, though MPL was in no way at all involved. What was at stake was a *fatwa<http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/2005/20050706b.htm#copy_fatwa> * (advising the woman to sever her current marriage)<http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/2005/20050706b.htm>, which was completely ignored. -- *Barbara Metcalf**, **Professor of History and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.*** More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1573> Spiritual Meditations *Muslims at prayer - 2<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1575> * More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1575> Books and Documents *The Function of Deen: From “Islam A Challenge to Religion” by Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1571> * Obviously, Islam fulfils all the requirements of Deen. Islam, as Iqbal puts it, "is neither dogma, nor priesthood, nor ritual."8 It is much more than any of these or all of these. It is the vivid sense of God's directive force and unflinching working of His laws. It is absolute iman in God's wisdom and His purpose. It is hearty participation in the upward progressive trend and movement of life and the world viewed as the expression of God's creative force. Islam stands for life-fulfilment and rejects life-denial as unworthy of man. It commands us to face facts and not to shrink from them and take refuge in fantasy, and requires us to control and harness natural forces for achieving our ends. Asceticism, quietism and monasticism are all repugnant to Islam. Islam lays stress oil social life and on its value for man, and does not regard the body as an evil and as an impediment to "spiritual" progress. It wants man to respect the rights of the body as well as the rights of the self. For this reason, Islam does not approve of self-abnegation and self-mortification. There is nothing mysterious in it and it has no place for mysticism. It aims at the establishment of a social order based on permanent values in which all its members act as free agents striving for a higher and noble cause of making man’s abode on this earth more beautiful, and making him fit for further evolutionary stages of life. Islam, as a living force, will continue to play a vital role in the moral uplift and social, cultural and political unification of mankind. It will continue to make valuable contributions to the knowledge and culture of mankind. Above all, it will continue to enrich the "spiritual" 9 life of man and thus strengthen and elevate his self or his personality. -- *Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez* 1 Comments More.<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1571> *Asad Farooqui responds to Sultan Shahin’s plea of forgiveness on Babri mosque dispute<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1574> * Mr. Sultan Shahin has made an excellent suggestion to the Indian Muslims on the late Babri Masjid. While I support his suggestion of taking the spiritual path of forgiveness, I must express some reservations that I have. Mr. Shahin is apparently a very highly spiritually evolved Muslim. But he doesn’t seem to have his feet firmly on the ground. *Sultan Shahin on Babri mosque dispute: A spiritual response<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1559> * http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1559 *Babri Masjid: Opportunity for Muslims *<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1514> by Sultan Shahin http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1514 *We adopted the practice of outsourcing of religion 14 centuries ago, something that all other religions used to follow before us and Islam had come to finish off. * More.<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1574> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. 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