I had written about Rob Franco’s boat paintings in an earlier post. He offered to sell some of his boat paintings at a substantial discount with 15 percent of the proceeds going towards assisting…

Today is nearly the middle of Ramadan, a month of reflection and fasting for Muslims. It is also an appropriate time to reflect upon how Muslims are doing in America.  They are certainly getting more than…

It is interesting that in reading the Quran there is no mention of a number of things that are commonly intimately linked to Islam. There is no mention of Sharia, Caliphate, Imam or for that matter…

To all you Pakistanis all over the world, our country is unquestionably faced with the worst crisis of all times. I cannot express the grief and the sorrow that I am witnessing. I want you all to…

Weeks of wrangling and public media controversy have seen every manner of argument tried and discarded in favor of the next, in order to secure a legal blockage of the proposed Cordoba Initiative mosque project in…

The Almighty in Quran set up trajectories of social transformation and not absolute law. This was the balance to make the social change realizable in a society suffering from so many social evils and to make it…

One of the distinct sense that I got in reading Quran was that God is not owned by any one religious group. Instead He relishes belonging to all different groupings.

“O mankind! We created you from…

Water was not what I had in mind this early in my read of Quran, but with so much going on related to it, I decided to discuss it earlier than later. Water as we know…

Anyone foolish enough to write on war or peace in the Indus needs to first banish a set of immediate suspicions. I am neither Indian nor Pakistani. I am a South African who has worked on water…

Before I try to approach the Quran from a rational perspective, it is worthwhile considering if God in the Quran wanted us to approach it this way. Religions in general are a belief systems in which…