SHARIAH IS NON-POLITICAL — From Speaking Tree, Times of India

Muslims must adopt that kind of behaviour which is acceptable to their neighbours. Anything that is not acceptable to their neighbours is a nuisance. In this matter, the neighbour’s opinion must prevail and not that of Muslims. Muslims are asked to live as law-abiding members of every society, whether they are living as a minority community or a majority community, and whether they enjoy political power or not. There are different kinds of nuisance. It is also a nuisance that the Muslim community insists on implementing its religious law in India, although the majority of Indian people and the system of India take it to be an unwanted initiative. Thus, Muslims must refrain from such behaviour as it creates a nuisance for their neighbours. o This article originally appeared in the Speaking Tree, a Times of India Publication, dated 14 July 2014. The Creation Plan of God The present world is nothing but a tiny interlude in our never-ending life span. The present world has been designed as a ‘testing ground’ for man; the Last Day as the ‘result day’ of man’s test; and the after-world as the time for man to have the eternal ‘reward’ or ‘punishment’, depending upon how he fared in his ‘test’.