25 August, 2010 05:45:00
The dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi is representative of the city’s language, poetry, food, music, architecture; the Sufi Master still attracts people from all sections of society, just like he did in his lifetime. ...
19 August, 2010 04:20:00
He is Punjab's first Sufi poet. His abode on the banks of Sutlej became Pakpattan, ‘the ferry of the pure'. He wrote poetry in the local Hindawi dialect also. The Granth Sahib contains 135 hymns written by him....
10 August, 2010 09:29:00
...... His family drew its lineage from Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. Despite his intimacy with the Sultan, he led an ascetic life steeped in poverty. .......
28 July, 2010 03:48:00
It is probably as a result of the impact of the Khwaja shrine and Pushkar at Ajmer that in many villages surrounding the city Hindus ...
26 July, 2010 04:40:00
Dr. Surendra BhatnagarIndian face of Islam is Sufi. Love is the only form of religion to a Sufi. There is no religion greater than the ...
26 July, 2010 08:55:00
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16 July, 2010 02:40:00
At Ajmer, a famous pilgrim centre about 130 km from Jaipur, Hinduism and Sufi Islam co-exist in glorious harmony with their shrines, the unique Brahma ...
07 July, 2010 03:05:00
There is a historic chariot in the possession of Gurchet Singh at Bhai Roopa village near Rampura Phul in Bathinda district of Punjab. It is ...
12 June, 2010 04:35:00
“The Bhagwad Gita is the first manual on management.” This statement may startle many modern-day managers and students of management alike. It baffled me all ...
19 June, 2010 02:55:00
By Prof. Surendra BhatnagarA blind belief in God has guided man down the ages. And people have fought wars in the name of their god. ...
28 June, 2010 01:45:00
There is another spiritual bridge between people of India and Pakistan, and it deserves to be more widely known in India than it is. Thousands ...
26 June, 2010 10:00:00
TALES FROM THE PAST By Mohammad VazeeruddinAs the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan have just talked of building “bridges to reduce trust ...
23 June, 2010 08:13:00
It is not as widely known as it deserves to be that in India there are several shrines that defy denominational barriers. For instance, a ...
12 June, 2010 10:25:00
Around 10-30 pm on May 19, 1984, some rioters tried to attack a Hanuman temple in the Sewri Cross Lane in Central Mumbai. As the ...
07 June, 2010 02:50:00
By Vazeeruddin Away from Mumbai, on a hillock that gets dressed up in the ninth day of Magh month (Muslim era) in a frill of ...
28 May, 2010 02:05:00
In March 1987 some places in Madhya Pradesh witnessed communal clashes, but it redounded to the credit of the masses in both Bhopal and Ashta ...
21 May, 2010 02:45:00
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the influence of Sufi Islam and the Bhakti Cult on Muslims and Hindus, respectively, is far too ...
20 May, 2010 03:00:00
In a joint sting operation, Tehelka magazine, and Headlines Today, a TV channel, have unmasked the Karnataka-based fundamentalist organization Sri Ram Sene as just another ...
10 May, 2010 04:05:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin The one reason why Sufi Islam is more sinned against than sinning, with several Islamic countries considering it heresy, is its inclusiveness. ...
14 May, 2010 04:50:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin Ever heard of Ameer Hamza of Udipi in Karnataka? He is a devout Muslim who prides himself on his services to Hindu ...
16 May, 2010 06:10:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin In August 1986, Zarina, a slum-dweller, was married off to Mohammad Ayub, a leather goods seller, in Andheri, a northern Mumbai suburb. ...
12 May, 2010 02:25:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin History shows that Sufism came to India together with Islam even if this mindset, engaged relentlessly in eclectic search for a universal, ...
02 May, 2010 05:05:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin Much has been written about Sufi Islam, what it means and what it does not mean, but here is a place ...
29 April, 2010 02:30:00
By Mohammad Vazeeruddin What is the relevance of mystic poet Baba Farid to present-day India, other than, of course, that, though a Muslim mystic, he ...
23 April, 2010 12:10:00
Saint who stole a thief’s heart! By Mohammad Vazeeruddin You might dismiss it as petty larceny, but you wouldn’t if you knew the full story ...
17 March, 2010 06:15:00
Pakistan-born Islamic scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who founded the organisation, Minhaj Ul Quran, has released a 600-page Fatwa, condemning terrorist attacks and suicide bombers and ...
06 February, 2009 03:00:00
The blood-thirsty jihadists are doing a great harm to Islam, forgetting that Islam has been the fastest growing religion in the world. Oddly, a large number of conversions to Islam take place in the United States, the land which is so intensely hated by the protagonists of jihad and terror.
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05 January, 2009 01:08:00
Silent Avatar, as Meher Baba is known, hails crucifixion as Jesus's way of taking the 'burden of the universe' upon himself. ...
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27 August, 2010 04:29:54