Secretary-General Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi Salafi said Islamic Dawah (inviting people to the way of Allah) is the prime most objective of Muslim Ummah; therein lies the secret of salvation of humanity; and thus it is the greatest need of the day. He was addressing the concluding session of the 5th 10-day All India Refresher Course for Imams, Dawah workers and teachers organised by the Jamiat on August 28.

"This work (Dawah) indeed requires courage,...

Students Islamic Organisation of India has urged the Government to introduce a national level backbone-filtering system to block all vulgar and obscene information.

"The need of the hour is to introduce a National level backbone-filtering system to block all vulgar and obscene information," said the organisation’s National Public Relations Secretary Suhail K.K. He was addressing the public at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on September 1 to mark the one-day campaign agai...

Mahesh Bhatt’s film Dhoka has for the first time featured a true picture of Indian Muslims as it demands from the Government to implement without any further delay the recommendations of Justice Srikrishna Commission Report. This was the consensus emerged during a seminar on the feature film Dhoka organised at Film Division Auditorium by Urdu Press Club in the Capital on August 30.

Replying to a question from the audience, Director of the film Mahesh Bhatt said, "We will co...

Some Non-Muslim youths from Haryana disguised as Muslims, who, for the last two years, had been running a racket of hoodwinking poor Muslims into marrying off their daughters with them and taking those girls with them to Haryana and Rajasthan for flesh trade and later selling them in metros like Delhi, have been arrested in Nanded.

The debunking of this racket has caused unrest and anger among the Muslims here.

The members of this racket were caught red-handed at a time when t...

The Kerala chapter of the Indian Association for Islamic Economics (IAFIE) will conduct a 10-month programme in Post-Graduate Diploma in Islamic Economics and Finance (PGDIEF) at Al Jamia Al Islamiyya, Pattikkadu, in Malappuram district.

The diploma is an integrated course which focuses on theoretical and applied aspects of the economic problems. It also involves the comparative analysis of conventional banking and finance and Islamic economics and finance. The students will be taught...

Former Governor of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh Mohammad Shafi Qureshi has been nominated chairman of National Commission for Minorities. A notification making announcement of his new assignment was issued on August 31. The post of NCM chairman was lying vacant when former chairman Hamid Ansari was elected Vice-President of India.

The great Muslim personages whose names had been pending before Congress president Sonia Gandhi to be nominated as NCM chairman include India&rsq...