Zeeshan Rasool Khan

                                                 Islam provides a unique way of living life, emphasizing every aspect, be it social, religious, economic, cultural, or behavioral. Apart from preaching religious harmony, and brotherhood, Islam values humanity and wants economic parity in the society. Islam encourages the masses to elevate their life standard and to help others in doing so. So that the poor-rich dichotomy is stamped out. It introduced the concept of ‘Zakat’ and ‘Sadaqah’ and made the former obligatory for those who meet the necessary criteria of wealth and later a kind of voluntary charity. Zakat means paying a specific amount of wealth to the poor, enabling them to fulfill their needs and live a life of comfort. However, there is a problem with the majority of Muslims that they perform salah, go for hajj, and observe fast but tend to forget to pay Zakat, which deals with ties between fellow Muslims and is as important as the other four pillars of Islam. If Muslims a

                                                           All months of Islamic Calendar are virtuous but month of Ramadan has special importance, for it literally is Training Session for Muslims. It trains Muslim to purify self from materialism and to polish it with divine blessings .It also serves as guide, guiding a Muslim how to live life in this materialistic world. Ramadan is month that has lesson in it for Ummah which indubitably, without any exaggeration is code of conduct for a Muslim. The fundamental aim of Ramadan is to inculcate attributes like perseverance, self-control, empathy, punctuality etc. among Muslims which are having great impact on our everyday lives. Let’s analyze how blessed month of Ramadan, in short period of thirty days induces all such attributes in us but whether these attributes gain permanence or vanishes with time completely relies upon a person’s consciousness ,whether he realizes their importance and continue with them or not.   Many times w

                                    During our school days we have been taught much about importance of girl education .I remember, writing essay on it was considered among expected questions in exam .Though lot of work has been done to create awareness among people regarding it, Girl education is still a challenge .A child without an education is still much more likely to be a girl than a boy. As per reports there are 58 million girls worldwide who are not in school. South Asian countries including Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Pakistan etc has highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. According to the 2011   Human Development Report   of the   United Nations   Development Program, approximately twice as many males as females receive a secondary education in   Pakistan and India too lags behind as far as girl education is concerned. Once international community promised that by 2005 there would be equal number of Boys and Girls in school but later after taking stock of de