Invited to break fast with the city’s Muslim community, residents of Mankato city in Minnesota attended the first iftar at Envision Labs on Sunday, June 26, building relations between the religious group and the community at large. “We’re opening our hearts and minds and saying this is our holy month and we want people to come and celebrate,” Fardousa Jama of the Somali Community Barwaaqo Organization said of the event. ...
For the 10th consecutive year, leaders of faith communities in Toronto gathered at the Sayeda Khadija Centre on Thursday, June 23, to share Ramadan iftar meal in an opportunity to restore and repair interfaith ...
- Eighteen Shiite men said to be members of Movement for Muslim Unity in Azerbaijan (MMU) went on trial beginning on August 4 in Baku's Court for Serious Crimes.They face alleged charges including murder, terrorism, inciting religious hatred, organizing mass unrest, and illegal possession of weapons. All of them without exception reject those charges as fabricated; several confirmed they have been subjected to torture in an attempt to induce ...
Allameh Raje Nasir Abbas Jafari, leader of Majlise Wahdate Muslimeen of Pakistan, along with a group of Shia Muslims have gone on hunger strike since Friday as an act of political protest to the continued injustices and ill-treatments of followers (Shias) of Ahlulbayt (a).
The hunger strikers started fasting on May 13, 2016 in Islam Abad. Later, people from other cities like Lahore, Karachi, and Parachinar joined this move even in hot weather. ...
‘Travels Through Northern Persia: 1770-1774’ by German physician, botanist and explorer Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin provides notable information about the rituals of public mourning in Muharram and Ashura in the city of Rasht, Northern Iran during the reign of Zand Dynasty, but it also contains some wrong accounts about this event. For example, he had supposes that Muharram is the first Iranian month (indeed Farvardin is the first ...
Marriage contract of an American Muslim couple was held at the Razavi Holy Shrine.Shazia Piarali a Muslim living in the US, said, “The spiritual and indescribable calmness of Imam Reza’s (A.S.) Holy Shrine and his blessing presence are the reasons of our marriage here”.
Saying that all the world Muslims consider Imam Reza (A.S.) as a mediator and receive what they want Allah to give them, she added, “Going on the ...
In a statement Thursday (July 6, 2017), Sayed Al-Ghuraifi noted that people are still praying for this country to be saved from all its crises that have become a huge burden on its people. He further stressed that "this country will not be healed by severe security choices, as they are choices that push towards more complications and tensions. He confirmed that the country would "be healed from its crises through understanding, dialogue, and ...
The locals of the Bahraini city of Al-Diraz took off to streets in protest of the death sentences issued by the regime’s military court against six citizens.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The locals of the Bahraini city of Al-Diraz took off to streets in protest of the death sentences issued by the regime’s military court against six citizens.The Bahraini military court had issued death sentences against six citizens after secret trials ...
AhlulBayt News Agency - Trowbridge Mosque a town in England opened its doors to the public over the weekend in hope of increasing understanding of Islam and to address any misconceptions about the religion.The monthly meeting, which started late last year, has seen a steady number of residents make their way through the doors of the mosque in Longfield Road with many asking questions about how the religion is often seen linked to recent terror ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A large number of people from different walks of life gathered in Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center in Stockholm, Sweden, to express solidarity and support for Muslims after an arson attack on the ...
The philosophical aspects of the character of Imam Khomeini (RA) was introduced in a session held on the occasion of World Philosophy Day by Iranian Cultural Center in Senegal.According to the website of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, 'Today’s Iran and Islamic Identity: Introduction of the Latest French Translation of Imam Khomeini’s (RA) Book Named 'Quest and Will'' was the title of the program.It was organized at ...
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that some 263 million children and youth, equivalent to about a quarter of the population of Europe, are out of school from primary to upper secondary levels with sub-Saharan Africa having the highest rates of exclusion. “Countries have promised to provide every child with a primary and secondary education by 2030. These new findings show the hard work ...
At least 9 martyred at Funtua town in Katsina State, 1 in Sokoto, 3 in Kaduna and the IMN center there was set ablaze. Also report reaching us the security operatives hired thugs and gave them N5,000 to kill any Shia seen in Kaduna Nigeria.
Heavily-armed troops in a convoy of 18 armored vehicles surrounded a gathering of mourners in Kaduna as an ambulance waited nearby, UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said in a ...
Iran’s embassy in South Korea has held a ceremony to celebrate February 11, the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, also officially called Iran’s National Day. Lotte Hotel in Seoul hosted a lavish feast organized by Iran’s ambassador to South Korea Mr. Hassan Taherian on Monday where about 400 people were invited to the ceremony which included foreign delegations and ambassadors to South Korea, tradesmen, heads of major ...
[Precise observation and an ability to find new mathematical solutions to old problems were the two main strengths of Muslim scientists in the Middle Ages. Celestial mapping sprang from a religious concern: the need to establish correct coordinates of cities so that Muslims could determine the direction of Ka'bah - the qibla - towards which all Muslims face themselves in prayer five times a day. This need led to significant developments in ...
Quran is a book which guides human beings in several dimensions of life and nobody can deny its several special characteristics and everybody may use it according to his capacity, here we want to talk about different viewpoints of non-Muslim scholars about Quran which show that the divine trainings of this book will soon spread through the world. Of course it should be mentioned that every scholar has looked at Quran from his own point of view ...
Haoja, who is of Macedonian origin, from Switzerland, has converted into Islam in 2008.A 41-year person whose research took him years to find out the true path to embrace Islam and its unique principles.In an interview with the official website of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine, Hoaja, said:I embraced Islam and I was socializing with Sunnie people at that time. Allah granted me success, and I embraced the Islamic path of Ahlul-Bayt (Peace Be Upon ...
The Kaduna State governor!, Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday inaugurated the Judicial Commission of Inquiry he set up recently, following Army's brutal attack on Islamic Movement of Nigeria and its leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, Premium reported.On December 17 2015, Mr. El-Rufai announced the establishment of a state Judicial Commission of Inquiry.The Islamic Movement recently released a list of 705 people missing or killed by the Nigerian Army ...
Interview with Franklin Lamb By Mike Whitney
Question: Between May 7 to May 10, Hezbollah took over Beirut, shut down the city's TV and communications facilities, blocked the main highways, closed the airport, and surrounded the homes of the leading political leaders with armed gunman. The action was taken in response to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's decision to outlaw Hezbollah's telecommunication network and sack the head of ...
