Author: Ammar Baksh A short, humble, witty old man has been creating tremors in the world of Islam that a few have noticed and many do not want to. He has explored almost every old school and has set out to restructure the age-old narratives of Islam. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a force to be…
This writing is based on the transcript of the interview of Javed Ahmad Ghamidi with Lemon News, India in 2013. You can watch the complete programme here. Host: Islam is a well established religion, and is meant to exist forever. However, with time and rapid changes in global politics, the understanding and image of Islam have…
Author: Mustansir Mir One of the long-standing objections levelled against the Qur’ān by its non-Muslim critics is that it appears to have no regular form or structure. It is said that its verses follow one another with little sense of interconnection and its sūrahs seem to have been arranged in a sequence based on the…
Author: Amin Ahsan Islahi To describe the principles of how to discern nazm is more important than to enumerate the arguments in order to substantiate its existence in the Holy Qur’ān. A person does not feel compelled to deny nazm in the Holy Qur’ān because he does not appreciate its need and import or is…
लेखक: जावेद अहमद ग़ामिदी अनुवाद: मुहम्मद असजद पोते की विरासत में दादा और दादा की विरासत में पोते का कोई हिस्सा साफ तौर पर तो कुरआन में बयान नहीं हुआ, लेकिन أولاد (औलाद) और آبا (आबा) के शब्दों में लुग़त (शब्दकोश) और उर्फ़ (इस्तेमाल), दोनों के एतबार से दादा और पोता भी शामिल हो जाते…