The Gentle Power of the Sufi Tradition

	The Gentle Power of the Sufi Tradition
	They believed the Vedantic or Bhakti idea… "God is everywhere and the whole world is a manifestation of the emanation of God" There were hundreds of Sufi saints including Salim Chisti, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Haji Ali, Khwaja Moinuddin and others who preached such a warm and loving spirituality that it attracted many non-Muslim followers and caused many non-Muslims to willingly embrace Islam as preached by them. As the Sikh religion developed in the 15th Century AD, many divines that inspired the evolving faith like Kabir and Farid were avowed Sufis while even Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539) was arguably a Sufi as well as it is not clear whether he subscribed to Muslim or Hindu faith as is evident from the legend of the magical disappearance of his body after his death instead having of a Muslim burial or a Hindu immolation as many Muslim and Hindu followers had wanted. -- Murad A Baig
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	Muslims must rethink Islam, learn from the West
	If Muslims want to succeed in anything useful, determine new directions and new dimensions and if they want to influence the world and restore their glory they need urgently to re-examine their religion. The Muslim hatred of democracy, pluralism, religious tolerance, co-existence and freedom of expression still continues unabated. The battle between the rigid, closed and dogmatic ideology of religion and unfettered thinking is by no means decided but its outcome will determine whether Muslims will embrace freedom, democracy, pluralism, coexistence, progress and tolerance or succumb to non-compromising fundamentalism, conflict and relentless war against the civilized world. The incessant rage, hostility and violence of the dejected Muslims will further destabilize the entire world. … Indeed the West runs almost entirely on 'ilm or knowledge. On the other hand the Islamic countries are often shackled by the ideas of the habar or the priests of religion who run on hot air. -- Syed Akbar Ali
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	Islamic Way of Life
	By Javed Chowdhury
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	Pakistan's perfidy on Gilgit-Baltistan: New Package, old policy
	It is a 'New Package with old policy', which aims to maximise Pakistani gains at the expense of the local people. Aim of Pakistani policy makers has always been to subjugate people, deprive them of fundamental rights, strengthen undemocratic forces, and promote communalism, extremism and hatred to divide people and plunder resources of this area. Malika Baltistani, Chairperson Gilgit Baltistan National Alliance, in a letter to PM of Pakistan said: 'It is a mournful reality that you have further continued a tradition to prolong our slavery by only altering the titles of the portfolios of our future "masters" than transforming our constitutional, democratic and basic rights from darkness to enlightenment. -- Dr Shabir Choudhry
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