THE concept of the foundling has gripped the imagination over millennia. The story of Oedipus is about a foundling who doesn't know his background, and so ends up killing his father and marrying his mother.
Stories of foundlings speak to us about social status, and the degree of noble or ignoble birth determines our lives. Muslim scholarship over the centuries developed discussions about the social standing of foundlings........ Download the full article in pdf attachment (below)

We are no longer in a Newtonian, mechanical universe, and we no longer think our purpose in life is to serve the factory and industry. But our schools were built for that old paradigm, and their structures and processes still serve the old master. In fact, “Education is the one institution in the last part of the twentieth and first part of the twenty-first centuries that hasn’t changed; almost all others have: business, transportation, communications, financial systems, trade, media, families, global culture. Certainly, our understanding of how people learn, through brain research and theories...... Download the full article in pdf attachment (below)

NOTHING seems to be going right to lighten the darkness that is taking hold of Afghanistan.
June was the worst month for casualties among foreign troops, with 66 deaths, in the nine years they had been there to battle Islamic extremism and rescue the rubble-strewn country from decades of war.

 

The BBC tallied last month that roadside bombings had nearly doubled in the first quarter of the year from the same period last year, assassinations were up by half and suicide attacks by 100 per cent. More than a thousand have been killed in the first six months of the year....... Download the full article in pdf attachment (below)

This article explores human dignity through a reading of the Qur’an and hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), the two most authoritative and widely venerated sources of Islam. It is presented in four sections, beginning with a review of the textual evidence on human dignity, to be followed by a similar review of God-man relationship, then also a discussion as to how the Qur’an guides and depicts as to how the humans should relate to one another while observant of each other’s dignity. The discussion proceeds to examine the juristic positions of the leading schools of Islamic law on the subject, and ends with a conclusion that underscores the effects of these guidelines on the realities of Muslim life...... Download the full article in pdf attachment (below)