Exploiting Human Beings…A Global Disease?

Exploiting Human Beings…
A Global Disease?
Not too long ago, at one corner of the Lucky Gardens roundabout, a ship container was suddenly placed there. At about the same time, large pipes appeared in the roundabout itself indicating some work needed to be done there.

The container, it turned out, was meant to house workers. In full view [...]

Universal mercy or loving kindness

  Loving kindness and peace
  
From Universal justice,
Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations
By Jamal Badawi, PhD
The essence of Islam is summed up in the following verse:
And (thus, O Muhammad), We have not sent you, but as mercy to all the worlds.
(Al-Anbiyaa’ 21:107)
The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) explained that mercy is not [...]

Justice in Islam

Justice in Islam
 
From Universal justice,
Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations
By Jamal Badawi, PhD

The Arabic term for justice is_
adl, meaning “to be in a state of equilibrium, to be balanced.”
That balance is inherent in the cosmic order and ecology as much as it is inherent in spiritual and ethical values. The Qur’an warns against disturbing [...]