There is a difference between “homosexual rights” of humans and “human rights” of homosexuals. The former are unacceptable but the latter should be ensured. Homosexuals need attention: social and medical. They need to be protected from unauthorised punishments by other members of society and they need the psychological support for giving up their addiction so... Continue Reading →
If anyone hoped that sanity would continue to prevail in Indian Constitution on the issue of Homosexuality, their hopes were belied. Finally, the D Day arrived and the Supreme Court bench of 5 judges, in a unanimous judgment, scrapped the Article 377 turning in effect homosexuality legal. As the anticipation was already high, the celebrations... Continue Reading →
Roadmap for Agenda 2019 Download PDFDear All Assalamalikum A few months before the Elections 2014, I had issued an Agenda for the elections: Muslim Perspective, which is being given below. This was circulated to all the major political parties. I feel similar exercise needs to be repeated this time. As lots of water has flown down... Continue Reading →
Sabitha Ramachandran PRO, Yenepoya (Deemed to be) University The inaugural programme of the Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Islamics was organised at Yenepoya University, Mangaluru (Karnataka) on 9th August 2018 at 10 AM. The programme has been initiated by Chair in Islamic Studies & Research under renowned thinker and writer, Dr. Javed Jamil. Inaugurating the... Continue Reading →
Report Yenepoya University had earlier established a Chair in Islamic Studies and Research. (Supplied) By Aftab Husain KolaSpecial to Al Arabiya EnglishFriday, 10 August 2018 A first-of-its-kind Post Graduate Diploma course in Applied Islamics has been launched in India offering students Islamic Knowledge integrated with knowledge of English, computer sciences and current affairs. Yenepoya University, which... Continue Reading →
Though Modi Government won the confidence vote, which was a foregone conclusion, it was Rahul Gandhi who stole the thunder. First with his fiery speech, then his now historical hug of the Prime Minister and the lighter moment of winking at his friend — all submerged the Prime Minister’s speech into background. Even those who do not... Continue Reading →
“Indian secularism does not mean negation of religion but it surely means negation of communalism”, said Dr Javed Jamil, renowned thinker who holds chair at Yenepoya University Mangaluru. He said that communalism has no relationship with religion and is a product of political and economic fundamentalism. He was addressing an Eid get together program at... Continue Reading →
In last few days, the UN has issued a report heavily criticizing the Government of India for severe “human rights violations” in Kashmir and CIA has described Bajrang Dal, VHP and RSS as terrorist or communal organisations. Irrespective of the nature and merit behind these accusations, which Modi Government have rejected, they have bust the... Continue Reading →
The so-called Modi Wave in 2014 was nothing but an anti-Congress wave generated by the corruption charges against the UPA government. Anna Movement galvanised the masses. The two leaders who cashed in on this wave were Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi. With no organisational set-up to back, Kejriwal could sweep only Delhi. If he had... Continue Reading →
Report by A Yaqub Internationally renowned thinker and writer and Chair in Islamic Studies, Yenepoya University has described “Yenepoya University, Mangaluru as an ideal example of Muslim participation in Education Sector in India”. He was delivering Keynote Address in Muslim Empowerment programme organised jointly by IDB, Muslim Educational Front and Farooqya Dental College, Mysuru at Mysuru.... Continue Reading →
The New Year celebrations were postponed in many places throughout the country as India did not feel like celebrating in the wake of the gang rape of Nirbhaya and her subsequent death. That the people felt enraged gives some hope that social vices would now start receiving much greater attention than they get till now.... Continue Reading →
Report by Shaukat Hussain Renowned thinker, writer and Head of Chair in Islamic Studies, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Dr. Javed Jamil said that “Islamic Economics, the way it is understood today is less of Islam and more of economics.” He was speaking as Chief Guest on the occasion of the inauguration of. Karunya Sauhardha Cooperation Society... Continue Reading →
I have been reading the articles appearing in Indian Express on the question of Muslims and the different views regarding their position in the current Indian scenario. The Indian polity seems to have the domination of two kinds of leaders. On the one hand there are people who have manifest communal leanings, some being soft... Continue Reading →
The death of perhaps no other scientist in recent [past has attracted the world attention as that of Stephen Hawking. He was truly the most known theoretical physics not only of the present times but one of the biggest theoretical physicists of all times perhaps only after Newton and Einstein. He carried Einstein’s Special and... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 4 The Hell in Fury Part 5 It can easily be estimated that the annual global number of deaths in police custody is in tens of thousands. It is not only the deaths in police custody severe torture too is common in police custody and prisons. While the Law is abhorrent of giving physical punishments,... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 4 The Hell in Fury Part 4 The fact that the ban on capital and corporal punishment has only led to the sharp burgeoning of all the crimes and the extrajudicial “death sentences” and “corporal punishments” is clear from the reports from almost all those countries where the modern judicial system is in force. There... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 4 The Hell in Fury Part 3 <<The Hell in Fury — Part 3 The net result of the campaign by the economic fundamentalists against capital punishment and the system of justice developed in accordance with their wishes is that now more people are “punished” by the police than by the courts. The capital or corporal punishment... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 3 <<The Hell in Fury — Part 2 Just to add to the crimes statistics, not just murders and rapes, thefts too have come increasingly notorious with more than 60 million cases of thefts worldwide every year. Here is the ranking of the countries in terms of rates of thefts: Country 1. Sweden 2. Netherlands 3.... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 3 Crimes against women The level of violence in society depends on several factors but three of them are extremely crucial: Fear of God; Fear of Law; and Fear of Society. If these three disappear in the minds of individuals, the level of violence will surely increase. Out of the three, it is perhaps the... Continue Reading →
From time immemorial man has talked of God. Most of the humans have believed that God created the universe and sustains it. A minuscule percentage of humans have argued that man created or invented God and their psychological and social needs sustain Him. In sciences too, there has always been huge controversy on the role... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 3 (Violence, Economic hegemony of wealth, Economic disparity, Debt Trap; Miseries of life with huge morbidity and , social chaos) The Devil has succeeded in constructing a big colossal hell, which covers almost all the directions and the dimensions of “the good earth”. As the true representative of the (Thermodynamic) Law of Disorder on the earth,... Continue Reading →
Ram of Valmiki Ramayana same as Abraham of Bible Rama is perhaps the most important and revered figure for Hindus. Abraham is the patriarch of all Semitic religions and is the symbol of monotheism for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Interestingly when we read the story of Abraham in Bible and the story of Ram in Valmiki... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 2 The paralysis of legal system led not only to the transformation of individuals in an increasing number into criminals of different sorts; soon, crime itself also became a business and saw the emergence of ‘organised crime.’ A spirit of opposition to the law was witnessed in certain sections of society favouring private rather... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 2 The relative mildness of punishment coupled with progressively lengthening procedures in trial before the pronouncement of the final verdict had presumable effects. The rate of murders and other crimes began to show an upward trend. It continues unabated till now in almost all the countries that have followed the western legal system because... Continue Reading →
Justice Imprisoned — Chapter 1 Unlike in the past, businessmen are no more weak and submissive. They are not the cranes any more but the leopards that want to rule and roar. To begin with, I would like to revisit my theory of “Economic Fundamentalism”, which is central to all the modern developments in scientific as well as social... Continue Reading →
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Lok Sabha has passed the Triple Talaq Bill. I have always been an opponent of Triple Talaq and consider it totally un-Islamic. But the truth is that the Triple Talaq Bill does not ban but validates it making it valid but punishable under law with 3 years imprisonment. The argument being presented is that it... Continue Reading →
Report by Dr. G Bagsaraj Source Renowned Scholar and Head of Chair in Islamic Studies at Yenepoya University, Mangaluru, Dr Javed Jamil has called for “holistic empowerment” of Muslims to remove their backwardness. He was speaking as Chief Guest in the Pearl Jubilees Celebrations of Al-Ameen Progressive Educational Society at Belgaum (Belgawi). He said that... Continue Reading →
Report by Adnan Ahmad Renowned thinker and Head of Chair in Islamic Studies & Research, Yenepoya University Manguluru, has lambasted the Pharmaceutical Industry for charging “unimaginably” high prices for medicines. He was speaking at the inaugural function of the Pharmacy Week organised by College of Pharmacy at Yenepoya University, Manguluru. He said that the price of... Continue Reading →
It is ironical indeed that the forces that are least hesitant to use violence as a means to establish or sustain their hegemony have been most vocal in criticising Jihad and Jihadism in Islam and Muslims. None can beat West in using force at the cost of the human life aimed at silencing all the... Continue Reading →
Yogi spent Rs 195.89 crore for the grand Diwali celebrations in Ayodhya. Of this, Rs 133.70 crore has been sanctioned by the Union government. When some leader even holds an Iftar party in Ramadhan, Hindutva Brigade feels hurt and wastes no time in declaring it “Muslim appeasement” worthy of utmost condemnation. But the all-out pampering... Continue Reading →
The daily news in recent months has become nauseating. For months, it is nothing more than violence, hatred and rapes that dominate the news. First, it was cow vigilantism. The “gau rakshaks” were busy paying tributes to their “mother” by taking the law into their own hands lynching the members of the minority community on... Continue Reading →
The Government is so much obsessed with Muslim factor that it has put the reputation of the country at stake in the United Nations, which has questioned its stand on what the whole world is seeing the biggest humanitarian crisis of recent times. Instead of taking the lead and showing to the world how much... Continue Reading →
In a “celebrated” judgment, recently, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution. In its 547-page judgment that declares privacy to be a fundamental right, the Supreme Court... Continue Reading →
I was to present the following paper in the International Seminar on ‘Modern Thinkers of India’ organised by Banaras Hindu University. But considering the mood of the delegates dominated by RSS protagonists I switched on to an extempore presentation and dealt more on the difference between an approach based on religious identity, which RSS is... Continue Reading →
The globe of New World Order is therefore rapidly developing into nothing but a fireball of chaos. It is hardly surprising then that More than 1 million people are murdered every year. (More than 240 million people lost lives in wars in the last century) More than 2 million people commit suicides More than 5... Continue Reading →
Note: As Chair in Islamic Studies & Research, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India I am endeavouring to get the Applied Islamics/Applied Studies of Islam recognized at the international level as a full-fledged, comprehensive discipline covering the application of Islamic principles in all the fields of human existence including health, law, natural and social sciences and philosophies.... Continue Reading →
Islamic system is neither one-dimensional nor two-dimensional; it is three-dimensional giving equal importance to Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Fundamental Prohibitions. This citadel of Peace has Duties as the Foundation, Rights as the Roof and Prohibitions as Walls. The modern systems, on the other hand, stress only Rights, undermine Duties and ignore Prohibitions altogether. Before... Continue Reading →
Finally, the Prime Minister has broken his silence. With the kind of furore that the country has been witnessing and the anxiety galloping in the country, he had no option left. Once he has spoken, the President who is normally under compulsion not to say anything that irks the Government has also found the opportunity... Continue Reading →
Economic Disparity Economic Disparity: the Monster that needs to be killed at the earliest Radical steps required to drastically reduce Economic Disparity — 1 Global Economic Disparity The big businesses steadily gained successes, because they did not hesitate to use every possible trick, every method of exploitation and all possible means — good, bad, legal or illegal, and moral or... Continue Reading →
Having a uniform tax at the national level is a welcome move. But the problem is that the world philosophy of Taxation based on taxing Income and Expenditure rather than accumulated wealth is so much tilted in the favour of the rich that it ends up in accentuating an already dangerous economic disparity with every... Continue Reading →
Though the whole Banking System is exploitative, Credit Card has left every other scheme of exploitation far behind. Through Credit Cards, banks can charge up to 48 per cent per annum and yet none in the political or social world seems to be concerned about this loot. How on the earth a 4 per cent... Continue Reading →
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A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — Fundamental Duties Faith and prayer are primarily meant to ensure physical, mental, social and spiritual peace of individuals. Fasting and Zakah are aimed, in addition, at social and national peace. With Hajj, the system of peace assumes global dimensions. The annual pilgrimage at Mecca, the birth city of Muhammad... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — Fundamental Duties Jihad has for long been one of the most talked about subjects throughout the world. Enemies of Islam have been unrelenting in misusing Jihad as a weapon to malign the religion as a supporter and propagator of violence. They have been assiduous in their efforts to attribute... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — Fundamental Duties (Literally, “the purifier”, indicates regular charity or poor tax, ) Charity is an act of utmost importance in all the religions of the world. All religions including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism promote charity in a big way. In Islam it again assumes a much... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — Fundamental Duties Just as Salat, fasting (Saum) has immense physical, mental, spiritual and social benefits. Fasting of one kind or the other is prescribed in almost all the religions of the world. It symbolises self-sacrifice, devotion, discipline, patience, control, generosity and purification. Fasting of all kinds has a soothing... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — Fundamental Duties Prayer is an essential part of all religions. Worship of One who is in charge of everything in the universe is sure to attract His special attention. Prayer indirectly helps in many other ways. It diverts attention from the ennui of routine activities and provides an escape... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Study of the Holy Qur’an — PART II: PHILOSOPHY Qur’an does not believe in an intermediary between God and ordinary man. Every man is free to pray God without the involvement of a priest. There is no priesthood in Islam as it is there in other religions. Those who specialise in religious knowledge have also... Continue Reading →
Dr Javed Jamil 