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The Natural Laws Manifest Divine Programming

By Sajid Mahmood Ansari
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In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Natural Laws Manifest Divine Programming Introduction Modern science is built upon one of the most remarkable assumptions about reality: the universe is intelligible because it operates according to consistent laws . Gravity behaves according to recognizable mathematical relationships; electromagnetic phenomena follow precise rules; matter interacts according to reproducible physical and chemical principles; biological organisms function through extraordinarily complex systems; and celestial bodies move according to predictable patterns. Science does not create these laws. It discovers, describes, and mathematically formulates the regularities already present in nature. This raises a deeper philosophical question: Why does the universe possess laws at all? Why is nature orderly, measurable, mathematically intelligible, and sufficiently stable for rational beings to discover its structure? From the Islamic perspective, t...
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The UNO’s New World Map: How a Change in Cartography Could Change the Way We See the World

By Sajid Mahmood Ansari
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In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The UNO’s New World Map: How a Change in Cartography Could Change the Way We See the World For more than four centuries, one particular image of the world has shaped generations' geographical imagination. It has appeared in classrooms, atlases, newspapers, offices and, in modified forms, on digital maps. Yet the map most people recognize as the “world map” contains a fundamental visual distortion: it makes some parts of the world appear far larger than they actually are. On 4 September 2026, the United Nations General Assembly took an important step toward changing that picture. By a vote of 164 in favour, one against and six abstentions , the Assembly adopted the resolution “Correct the Map: Rebalancing Global Cartographic Representation and Promoting Equitable Representation of the World’s Regions, Particularly Africa.”  Togo led the initiative, with support from the African Union. ( United Nations ) The resolution pr...
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The Argument Against Pakistan Reconsidered: Why Partition May Have Strengthened Rather Than Weakened Muslim Political Power

By Sajid Mahmood Ansari
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In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Argument Against Pakistan Reconsidered: Why Partition May Have Strengthened Rather Than Weakened Muslim Political Power The most persistent argument against the creation of Pakistan is that Partition weakened the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent by dividing them geographically . According to this view, Muslims constituted roughly a quarter of the population of undivided India, and if they had remained together, they would have possessed a much larger demographic and political weight. Partition, by creating a Muslim-majority Pakistan, allegedly sacrificed the political influence of Muslims in India in exchange for a geographically divided state. At first sight, this argument appears compelling. But it rests on an important assumption: that a large minority dispersed throughout a Hindu-majority democratic state would necessarily possess greater long-term political power than a smaller population concentrated in a Muslim...
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Islamic Social Structure in the Modern Era

By Sajid Mahmood Ansari
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In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Islamic Social Structure in the Modern Era Introduction The Islamic social structure is neither radical individualism nor oppressive collectivism. It is a hierarchy of morally connected relationships in which individual rights and responsibilities extend outward from the individual to the family, community, society, Ummah and humanity, while ultimate accountability remains before Allah. Modern civilization has achieved extraordinary advances in science, technology, medicine, communication, and material production. Human beings possess unprecedented power to manipulate their physical environment and communicate across continents within seconds. Yet technological progress has not automatically produced psychological peace, stable families, social cohesion or a shared sense of meaning. Modern societies increasingly confront questions that cannot be solved merely through technological advancement: Why are loneliness and social ...
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