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Standard Chartered adds charity features in Saadiq account Business Desk : Standard Chartered Saadiq recently hosted a global webinar, titled Understanding how Sadaqa can be an Islamic response to a pandemic , reflecting on how our individual actions can collectively bring financial relief to communities. This was the second webinar of the Living Islam series hosted by Standard Chartered Saadiq Bangladesh. Living Islam is a platform which brings Islamic scholars and experts to talk about Islamic topics that are part of our everyday life. Distinguished Shariah Supervisory Committee s member Dr Aznan Hasan (Malaysia) shared his thoughts on how aspects of faith such as Sadaqa can be an Islamic answer to this pandemic. ....
Last week, people from all faiths and backgrounds, including our reporter Rowan Newman, participated in Fast Friday. Fasting Friday proved to be a success once again Over £600 was generated allowing gifts and food to be delivered to Bradford Council and a care residential home in the city. MFF and BFT would like to thank MyLahore, Cafe Regal, Kanapeena Supermarket, Living Islam, itc., and Mir Solicitors for their kind contributions. Mark Douglas, Bradford Council s Director of Children’s Services, said: “I would like to thank Bradford Foundation Trust and its partners for thinking about our care leavers and providing them Eid parcels. ....
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward Said was arguably a loyal child of that Enlightenment. Credited with coining secular criticism, Said also viewed himself as a secular critic. Notably, the introduction and conclusion to his The World, The Text and the Critic are titled respectively as “Secular Criticism” and “Religious Criticism.” Lamenting that the contemporary critics had become “cleric,” Said invoked the Enlightenment for critique to “become a truly secular enterprise.” In formulations like Said’s, critique, far removed from religion, resided solely and in a sharply different realm called secular. ....