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April 10, 2020

To protect the society, let’s build confidence and unify ranks

The proliferation of the COVID-19 virus posed a serious threat to world public health due to its rapid spread over a wide area and the great difficulty in imposing precautionary measures to curb the spread of the epidemic.Following the outbreak of the epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, early last year, China took firm, decisive, comprehensive, full-fledged highest-level precautionary measures including quarantines to curb the spread of the epidemic. ...

April 7, 2020

Yes, I want to be the second wife!!!

Tariq A. Al-Maeena A FEW weeks ago, a column I wrote titled “Should I take another wife” drew a very moving reply which I am submitting below. It offers another perspective into the multi-wives quandary facing some members of society.The writer says: “Mr. Al-Maeena’s writing has prompted me to reply. I would have totally agreed with him about 30 years ago when I was twenty. The idea of marrying a ...

April 3, 2020

Coronavirus and savings

Novel Coronavirus has stunned our planet as do science fiction movies. The stories that we used to hear and read about in history have now become a practical scenario.We see how a virus, which is not visible to the naked eye, can make scientists spend sleepless nights and tend to eliminate our economic gains, in a blink of an eye. I see there seems to be an agreement between the ...

March 18, 2020

Various religions, systems and laws are urged to donate and do well in all its forms. In the business world, there are big businessmen who compete in the field of charitable work just as they do in the financial and business arenas.There is Larry Ellison, who founded the technology company Oracle, which uses his donations in the fields of education and health care, and there is Mark Zuckerberg, founder of ...

March 16, 2020

Islam ... tolerance and political Islam

Dr. Khaled M. BatarfiI was sitting next to my favorite classmate and friend, Jack, in Journalism School, University of Oregon. He was commenting on a subject matter, when he suddenly announced: Me, as a Jew and a communist, think ....”I couldn’t follow what he said next, as my mind was spinning then at his shocking revelation.Now, here is the man who helped me publish my thesis about US media bias ...

March 10, 2020

‘Should I take another wife?’

THIS question was posed to me recently by a long-time acquaintance. A married man with four children, and settling down in the middle passages of his life, he was considering his candidacy for a multiple partner lifestyle.“Why would you want to do such a thing?” I asked. “It is Islamic, and there are more than enough unwed women of marriageable age, and therefore I feel it is the right thing ...

March 10, 2020

Facing the Iranian corona!

It was heart-breaking to watch the Holy Haram in Makkah empty, on the 24hrs Qur'an channel. I felt the same visiting the Prophet Mosque in Al-Madinah just a day after the closure of the tomb area, and the old part of the haram.Still, my wife, mother-in-law and me, were very assured as we witnessed first-hand the strict and extensive systems put in place in both holy cities. We felt safer ...

March 4, 2020

Cruelty to animals has no place in Islam

It is not easy for one living in Saudi Arabia not to be distracted by the regional affairs around them nor of the conflicts in several Arab nations that have erupted since the invasion of Iraq. Nor is it easy to ignore the continuing brutality of the current Israeli regime against the Palestinian people trapped in their own lands, or the growing violence against Muslims in India.With headlines all garnered ...

March 3, 2020

Islam is the solution?

Since its inception in 1928, we have heard, loud and clear, over and over again, the Muslim Brotherhood’s slogan “Islam is the solution.” It was supposed to be the ultimate promise for a utopian world: If we just had a whole Islamic system, we would resolve today’s problems and bring back our past glories.However, it was more of a teaser or a soundbite than a practical program. Still, we took ...

March 1, 2020

We should embrace criticism rather than fear it

“Wisdom is not the product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”These were the words of physicist Albert Einstein and are important because all of us should be trying to learn new things every day of our lives.It doesn’t matter who the advice is from, we should always be prepared to take the words of others on board.An example of this came recently after one of my excellent ...

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