- Shila leader Iklil al Milal, right, embraces a Sunni representative after Monday’s peace declaration. (Photo)As many as 50 people representing the Sampang Sunni community on Monday signed a peace agreement with their Shia neighbors, who are currently sheltering in low-cost apartments in Sidoarjo, East Java, after being relocated from the regency following prolonged conflict between the two sects. They met with around 40 representatives ...
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 ...
Let's not forget Nardaran;s prominent Shiite scholars in Azerbaijan prisons / Photos
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Azerbaijan began a fresh wave of attacks on the majority Shias on November 26, 2015 when security forces killed four members of the Movement for Muslim Unity (MMU) during a raid in the village of Nardaran. At least 14 people were nabbed in the raid, including the MMU leader Tale’ Bagirzade, who is also known as Sheikh Bagirov.The ...
When Prophet Muhammad (SAW) began to propagate the religion of Islam in Mecca and Medina, those who didn’t believe in him and his message, opposed and troubled him. They called him a lunatic and a sorcerer. They offered bribes to persuade him to stop preaching the religion. When all these failed, they used harsh treatment against the Prophet (SAW) and the new Muslim converts. During all these years, the Prophet (SAW) enjoyed the protection of ...
The Sixteenth Spurious Argument:SHIA OPINION ABOUT HAFSA AND 'AA'ISHASome people spuriously criticize the Shias cursing the wives of Prophet Muhammad (s), especially 'Aa'isha (daughter of Abu Bakr; the first caliph) and Hafsa (daughter of Umar; the second caliph), and that they ascribe adultery to them, Allah forbid!THE ANSWERThis is a great calumny. When did the Shias ascribe adultery to 'Aa'isha and Hafsa? This is definitely not true. In fact, ...
Processions continue across the valley on 7th Muharram organized by J&K Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian. Muharram Processions were taken out from Undroon Kathi Darwaza Rainawari, Wata Magam, Patwaw, Karipora Budgam.Instead of curfew imposed by state administration in Undroon Kathi Darwaza Rainawari, mourners take out the procession. Mourners expressed outrage against the Indian repression and ban on Muharram processions while reading Marsia and ...
Ambushed and beaten while he was simply walking to prayer, a Muslim man says he was targeted outside of a Bronx mosque because of his faith. Police are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime while the victim and others in this community say they're fearful this may happen ...
Libya’s Grand Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani has urged Muslims to abstain from traveling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage more than once, saying the kingdom uses Hajj revenues to commit crimes against " fellow Muslims."
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Libya’s Grand Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani has urged Muslims to abstain from traveling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage more than once, saying the kingdom uses Hajj revenues to commit crimes against " ...
A conference titled “Labayk Ya Rasullalah” (Here I am at your service O messenger of God) will be held in Hyderabad, a city located in the Sindh province of Pakistan later this month.Slated for Sunday, December 18, it aims to underscore the importance of unity among Sunni and Shia Muslims.The conference is held on the occasion of birthday of the Holy Prophet of Islam, which marks Islamic Unity Week.A number of Shia and Sunni scholars ...
AhlulBayt News Agency - Hours after the famed qawwal Amjad Sabri was killed in a gun attack, prominent Shia noha Khawan (reciter of elegies) Farhan Ali Waris escaped an assassination attempt in Karachi.He was on his car and surrounded by some armed takfiri terrorists of so-called banned Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat (ASWJ) near the Teen Hatti area of the metropolis.The terrorists were about to open the fire on him, but his security guard opened the ...
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 ...
According to Turkey’s Star newspaper, Nepal is a country where the number of Muslims has increased rapidly in the past few years.It quoted Khorshid Alam, the head of Nepal’s Islamic Society, as saying that some 100,000 Nepalese have embraced Islam in the Asian country over the past 15 years.Alam said the number is expected to rise even further in the coming years.This is while a Hindu or Buddhist who converts to Islam could face many ...
It was December 23, 1986, two days away from Christmas, when Arch Bishop Martin John Mwaipopo, announced to his congregation that he was leaving Christianity for Islam. The congregation was paralysed with shock on hearing the news, so much so, that his administrator got up from his seat, closed the door and windows, and declared to the church members that the Bishop’s mind had become unhinged, that is, he had gone mad. How could he not think ...
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Contemporary technology in the form of electronically managed interactive telecommunications is compatible with the goals and values of the humanities. For Marx, machine-work tended toward being mechanically routine, repetitive, deskilled, and trivialized. In the case of discourse, the same criticism has been made of computerized communication. Immediacy is not authorial presence, but the experience of textuality that is maximized by ...
This edition of the show is about Abu Zakariya Ibrahim who is from catholic family converted to Islam. He talks about his challenges and changes as a Muslim convert in Britain before and after embracing the world's fastest-growing religion.It can be very challenging to adopt a new view of life, but for Ibrahim this has been precisely the definition of his journey, he has changed his perspective of his life and the universe around him and for him ...
