President Muhammadu Buhari has assured international and local human rights groups of “appropriate response” to a report of the judicial inquiry into the Army's barbaric attack towards unarmed members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria last December. This was revealed on Tuesday, August 16, in a statement by a presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, who shared it on his Facebook page. Read the statement below: "President Muhammadu ...
According to a report published in al-Riyadh newspaper on Friday, Samer Lababidi was taken into custody the previous day after he flashed the victory sign in his Facebook picture following the recapture of Aleppo by the Syrian army soldiers and their allies. The man, who is in his forties, faces accusations of publishing statements related to the war on Syria, the report added. Saudi authorities deactivated Lababidi's Facebook account after ...
Mythology In Chinese mythology, a Nian is a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains. Every spring, on or around Chinese New Year, it comes out of hiding to attack people, especially children. The Nian is sensitive to loud noises and is afraid of the colour red. In the Chinese New Year customs such as decorating things in red, exploding firecrackers, and performing a lion dance were originally used to scare the beast away. Some people ...
Senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri praised Foad Kanso, the translator of Sahifa Sajjadiyya into Croatian for the work.According to the Iranian Cultural Center in Zagreb, Ayatollah Taskhiri, a top adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in religious affairs, in a ceremony in the Croatian capital on Wednesday, described Kanso’s translation as a lasting work for the European country’s ...
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky says there were some renewed efforts by the government and its agencies to label it as "violent and terrorist".
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky says there were some renewed efforts by the government and its agencies to label it as "violent and terrorist".A statement by the movement's head of ...
In December, the boxing legend issued a statement criticizing presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Ali called on Muslims to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.”
“American Muslims would be well-served to look at the challenges that Muslims such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali had to deal with,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the ...
- In an effort to dispel preconceptions about the Muslim faith, several local mosques in Bolingbrook, Illinois have been conducting open houses in recent weeks and inviting the public to find out more about their religion and ...
However, I soon realised that there was so much more to this faith than I could ever have imagined. I realised that everything I knew about Islam was completely false. Instead I was presented with a faith that was logical, beautiful, fair and miraculous. I found a God who was so worthy of worship and so merciful to his creation and a Prophet (pbuh) with a beautiful and pure heart.
But things happened. The first thing was I left my fiancé. ...
A German lady converted to Islam in the Razavi Holy Shrine. The German lady became interested in Islam and embraced it after she had made familiar with her Muslim husband. “I was a student of social work in Estonia University when I became familiar with Iranian families and their customs that resulted in my interest in Islam”, said Nadia concerning her converting to Islam. “This is the first time I am visiting the Razavi ...
Nigerian forces have opened fire at a group of Shia Muslims holding a demonstration in preparation for the upcoming Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia ...
An Egyptian Quran reciter was expelled from the country’s al-Azhar University for falsely claiming to have won the top title at Malaysia’s international Quran competition.The disciplinary committee of Al-Azhar University’s branch in Asyut governorate held a session on Monday to investigate the issue, al-Yawm al-Sabi website reported.Abdul Rahim Radhi, the young reciter, had claimed in social media that he came first in the last ...
I've been asked too many times to explain how I became a Muslim. Nearly every time, I come up with something different.(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - I don't make anything up, but the acceptance of a religion is complicated. It involves emotions, personal history, politics, theology and philosophy and much else, too. So although here I'm focusing on the philosophical factors, don't get the wrong impression that I arrived at Islam ...
This work is a true masterpiece, not only of translation and exposition, but of Islamic propagation, as well. The work as a whole provides the best rejoinder yet given to the attack made on Islam from various feminist quarters both in the West and in the Muslim world. In brief, the answer is that the critics fail to see past the surface of Islam, a surface which is then judged by modern Western standards, while an adequate understanding of the ...
The Shi‘ite Muslims under the Pressure of the UmayyadsAs previously mentioned, Umayyads had three obstinate foes, namely Kharijites who were of great trouble to them during various periods. Shi'ite Muslims who were in opposition to Mu'awiya from 'Ali's term on and thereafter Imam Husayn (a), the penitents, Mukhtar, Zayd Ibn 'Ali and Yahya Ibn Yazid ran wild against them.Moreover, Shi'ites's ideology especially its political aspect based on ...
There had been some recent attacks targeting Muslims in Chicago and across the nation. Islamophobia at times stems from the lack of education about Islam and Prophet Muhammad or education from unreliable sources,” Sabeel Ahmed, executive director of GainPeace, said in a statement. "Thus, we want to offer our fellow Americans an opportunity to learn the true teachings of Islam from its main source, the Quran. "Previous educational ...
Saudi regime has identified the perpetrator of the bomb attack on Imam Al Ridha Mosque in Al Ahsa in the Eastern Province as Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah Bin Sulaiman Al Tuwaijri, a 22-year-old Saudi national.The interior ministry late on Saturday said that the attacker who bombed the Shiite mosque in Al Mahasin neighbourhood had been arrested two years ago also.A second suicide bomber was arrested during the attack and he is being treated for ...
Providing a free medical help for vulnerable and uninsured Americans in South Carolina, an American Muslim organization is offering free medical service for people of all faiths, setting a role model for American ...
A Tanzanian female activist and former lawmaker underlined the role of Muslim mothers in teaching the Quran and raising a Quranic generation.Speaking to the Global Association of Muslim Women, Shamim Khan said in teaching the Quran to children, it is important that Quran interpretation be read to children so that they learn the sublime teachings of the Holy Book as well as memorizing it.She added that Muslim women can be very influential in the ...
The massacre of our brothers at the tailspin of 2015 is still fresh in our minds. The book of history has recorded how your military killed Hammad, Ali and little Humaid in cold blood while their father watch. All under the pretext 'blocking' a Borno-based hunter who was decorated the country's Chief of Army Staff. We would never forget how you shot our leader, guide, mentor, father and the list goes on...his wife Malama Zeenah keeping them ...
