The mosque in the Greek capital will be located at a former naval base in the downtown neighborhood of Votanikos, Kathimerini reported last Thursday. Parliament last August passed a bill greenlighting the mosque – the first since the 19th century – but an occupation of the premises by self-proclaimed Greek “patriots” stalled its construction. As the occupiers told Anadolu Agency at the time, they opposed the ...
A Shia Muslim community preacher has been stabbed to death in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila of Bangladesh. The so-called Islamic State insurgent has allegedly claimed responsibility of the killing.The victim was identified as Abdur Razzak, 48, son of Abul Hashem Khan in the upazila, local correspondent reports. He was also a homeopath doctor by profession.Locals said he was returning from his chamber around 9:30pm last night when ...
Birth and Childhood Brother Wariton Karbasi was born in the French town of Fontanblo that is fifty kilometres away from the French Capital Paris. In 1951 he left France to continue his studies in Britain in the field of electronic engineering after which he returned to Paris.In 1956, Wariton Karbasi attained a contract with an airline for work in Mehrabaad Airport in Tehran, Iran. After a while he returned to live in Iran. He then spent ...
Tackling Fear and Building Trust: Society’s Collective Responsibility We will now turn to the second part of this speech, which concerns the responsibilities of European countries. What I have previously been talking about would be easier if this was the only part of the process, that is, if the problems only had to be tackled from the Muslim side of things. But in Europe today, we are facing problems. The first one is fear. We are dealing ...
Kuwait said it arrested a Filipina it accused of joining the ISIS group through its affiliate in Libya and who planned to launch an attack.
Security forces monitoring the woman’s email found messages by the woman to the ISIS group’s Libyan affiliate, pledging allegiance to the group. “She confessed she was ready to carry out any terrorist attack once circumstances and means were ripe in order to undermine security ...
Some of Shia boys has organized 4th Annual Combine Iftar and Namaz (Shia-Sunni) in Badshahi Mosque Lahore on 27th May,(Sunday) 2018.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AhlulBayt News Agency) - Some of Shia boys has organized 4th Annual Combine Iftar and Namaz (Shia-Sunni) in Badshahi Mosque Lahore on 27th May,(Sunday) 2018.It is the 4th consecutive year that the event organized.The event is dedicated to holy Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hasan Mujtaba ...
An Italian young man converted to Islam at the Imam Ridha Holy Shrine (8th Shia Imam) and on the eve of holy month of Ramadan 2016.After years of research on Islam and getting familiar with Qur'an, Alessandro Juliani completed his understanding of this holy book and converted to Islam.This Italian young man choose Muhhammad as his new name. Regarding his conversion into Islam, he said, “I had heard about Islam a lot and all these ...
In the Fatwa, issued in 1959, Sheikh Shaltoot stressed that the Ja’fari (Shia) school of thought is a school of thought that is religiously correct to follow in worship as are other Sunni schools of thought. "Muslims must know this, and ought to refrain from unjust prejudice to any particular school of thought, since the religion of Allah and His Divine Law (Shari’ah) was never restricted to a particular school of thought,” he ...
The Hollywood critic by pointing at the Hollywood's anti-Iranian movies said that: Over the past years movies like “Rose Water” “Argo” and “300” were among the anti-Iranian movies made in Hollywood.
Pointing at the history of American cultural war against Iran he said: Overthrow of Mossadegh, the deposition of Pahlavi as king and promotion of Western culture are among the many instances of American cultural ...
Suthida has changed her name to Assieh and is taking courses at a school in Bangkok to learn the Islamic principles.
The popular actress has said that despite many objections raised by people around her, she finally decided to convert to Islam. She has made the decision after travelling to many countries for finding the most perfect religion.
The move has been hugely debated in the Thai media.
Suthida has also stated that she performs her ...
The All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling on Monday identified the missing girl as Nabra. Her last name is currently being withheld. Local media reports that Nabra was a student who just finished her second year of high school. "We are devastated and heartbroken as our community undergoes and processes this traumatic event," ADAMS said in a statement. "It is a time for us to come together to pray and care for our youth." Nabra ...
Terming the demolition and desecration of Jannat-ul-Baqi’ as the plot hatched by anti-Islamic elements, president Anjuman Shari Shian Aga Sayed Hasan Almosavi Al-Safavi said that Jannat-ul-Baqi’ is a much revered graveyard located in Madinah Munawwarah in Saudi Arabia.“Many great personalities of the AhlulBayt immaculate members of Prophets including his successors are laid to rest there but the Al-Saud government didn’t ...
Edward Said: Orientalism Revisited (25 years later) Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, in trying to clarify what I believed I had and had not said, stressed not only the many discussions that had opened up since my book appeared in 1978, but the ways in which a work about representations of "the orient" lent itself to increasing misinterpretation. That I find myself feeling more ironic than irritated about that very same ...
Sheikh Ahmad al-Zein, chairman of the Muslim scholars’ trustee board in Lebanon attended the ceremony for 38th anniversary of Islamic Revolution hailed Iran’s efforts to boost Islamic unity and its struggles to aid the oppressed nations across the globe. He stressed importance of solidarity among Muslims under the guidance of one leadership and said,” Dispersion among Muslims and lack of a council for coordination of ...
Director of the Astan Quds Razavi Department of International Affairs hosted a group of tribe leaders from Iraq for talks on a host of religious and social issues.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Director of the Astan Quds Razavi Department of International Affairs hosted a group of tribe leaders from Iraq for talks on a host of religious and social issues. Hujat al-Islam Dr. Mohammad Ali Movahedi Mohassel, said the meeting with the Iraqi ...
One example of those differences is the concept of "religion”. Let me give you an idea about religion in Japan. To begin with, Buddhism and Shinto are the two most popular religions in Japan. Interestingly, they do not contradict in values and teachings. So, one can actually believe in both, as most Japanese do. However, when it comes to marriage, or death, most of Japanese follow Buddhism traditions and rituals. From my experience, most ...
Different programs were held in all major cities of Pakistan including, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar to mark the auspicious occasion. Lovers of Imam Reza (A.S) in Pakistan belonging to both Sunni and Shia communities attended the ceremonies. Ulema and religious scholars in their speeches highlighted the character and virtues of Imam Reza (A.S). They urged Muslims to follow the teachings of Imam Reza (A.S) throughout ...
