Saima Sher Fazal

 Can we surrender to the truth for unity? After the death of the beloved Prophet Muhammad ( saw) some Arab tribes stopped paying zakat and Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddique (RA)decided to go to war with them to make them comply. At that moment Hazrat Umar ibn khattab (RA) came to him and asked Abu Bakr( RA) “How can we fight with someone who has declared the shahadah la illah il al Allah”?! Abu Bakr ( RA) exclaimed, “ By God I will fight with those who differentiate between salah and zakah! Salah is the right of Allah and zakah is the right of men. Even if they only gave a baby goat in the time of the beloved Prophet ( saw) and have stopped giving it now, I will fight with them.” Hazrat Umar (RA) is reported to have said that : “By God it was nothing else but the opening of Abu Bakrs heart (inspired comprehension of the matter)by Allah and I recognised that it was nothing but HAQ( truth). Similarly in another incident after the battle of yamama when a lot of huffaz were martyred Hazrat Umar Ib

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED  If  the  stages of human civilization  throughout time  could be illustrated , an   arc  would  certainly do justice  to the expression of  volatility  in  human thought . An arc similar to a  pendulum’s  arc .  Humanity has, in  a continuous search fo r  balance, travelled back and forth from extremes and in this  journey  there  has always been  a  time when the  pendulum  of our existence on its way back from one extreme has bought  forth  minds ;   unique, progressive and visionary . Minds  who went on to b ecome the  greatest sources of reform and reconstruction throughout human  history. It’s  quite significant to note here that what sets these minds apart from an average mind of  their time is the  flexibility  of thought in dealing with t ruths, events and circumstance s . Being progressive  is  actually  more of an approach which makes human beings sift through all the lies and reveal the truth  in a way most pertinent to  that time.  An approach