Water: The Molecule of Life
The sustenance of all known life-forms relies heavily on water, and almost all living things are mostly composed…
Issue 62 (March - April 2008)
19 articles
Human Rights and Islam
Question: What is the Islamic stance on human rights? How does Islam regard the killing of a person?…
Understanding Today’s Schools with Chaos Theory
Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs…
A Reform Rabbi Learns from Muhammad
All Muslims know that the Qur’an often refers to the “people of the book” and their prophets. In…
Heroes of Compassion
Once there were model men Roaming in our shining civilization. They breathed life into lost souls, We called…
Economic Development via Human Development
Think about two South African children born on the same day in 2000: Nthabiseng and Pieter. Nthabiseng is…
Curative Cherries
Fruits of various kinds in abundance, such as dates in sheathed clusters, bananas piled one above another, grapes,…
A Personal Pilgrimage
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.”…
From the Spider’s Web
Hello dear humankind, Many of you are frightened of us. You have even invented a disease called “Arachnophobia”…
Hal and Maqam (State and Station)
Hal (state) denotes experiencing in one’s inner world the “breaths” blowing from the realms beyond the world, and…
Belief in God: A Matter of Life and Death
Odd as such a question might sound, do you think God is still alive in the twenty-first century?…
Tissue Engineering; Towards Spare Human Parts
Everyday, thousands of people from all age groups are treated for organ malfunction. Many of these patients require…
In Search of Freedom
Throughout the ages, people have given different meanings to freedom. Every scholar has defined it in their own…
Miraculous Carrier in Blood: Hemoglobin
By means of rapid and astonishing advances in science and technology, every day we witness amazing discoveries related…
The Place of Tolerance in Islam
In the aftermath of September 11, Islam’s relation to violence and tolerance have been widely discussed. The critics…