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  • The Richest Vein
    By Dr Iftikhar Shafi

    Listen to the reed…
    Books affect us through their company, and in that they are very much like human beings. It naturally follows that we should be selective in our readings just like we carefully recognize friends from mere acquaintances, or from foes...

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  • Education 101
    by Hamzah Wald Maqbul

    What university graduates need to learn about madrasah education
    A majority of Muslims have never seen the teaching of the traditional Arabic syllabus being taught at a madrasah, ever.

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  • Urban Pangs
    By Abdul-Ahad Husain

    Price isn’t everything you pay
    It is said that Socrates once went past a shop and exclaimed “How many things I can do without!” How do you decide to buy what to buy? With so much variety, exposure, innovation and sensory appeal, surviving the marketplace with your deen in the chest pocket- I mean behind it- is not easy...

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  • Parables
    By Zafar Iqbal

    Who knows what it means?
    A work of art was on display at a festival in Athens. The painting showed a bunch of grapes held by a human hand. People were asked to offer an opinion.

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  • Of Parents and Parenting
    By Nabeel K. Khan

    The trouble with TV
    Sometime in the late 80s, a friend passed on to me a booklet on Islam and television. It contained a long list of problems that made housing TV at the very least an offensive act. At that time, I was a TV addict and so I scoffed at what I thought was cultural extremism.

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The Intellect is an English Islamic Magazine published by Maktaba Fahmedeen from Karachi, Pakistan under the valued patronage of the esteemed Scholar, Hazrat Maulana Abdus Sattar Da’mat Barakatuhum.

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Speak of threats to Muslim survival and the mind instinctively strays in the direction of politics. How Israel has been oppressing the Palestinians or how the Indian forces routinely violate the basic human rights of Kashmiris are patent cases where the life, property and dignity of Muslims are threatened every day. Others point to the clever tactics used by neo-imperial powers to regulate the governments and economies of Muslim countries.
No doubt the physical, social and political well-being of those born in Muslim families are of fundamental importance. But here I want to discuss quite another phenomenon viz. the survival of Islam in Muslims.
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