From the Department of Pediatrics, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan; And Roya Pirzadeh, MD From the Center of Study and Research of Medical Ethics and Ministry of Health, Islamic Republic of Iran. PEDIATRICS Vol. 108 No. 4 October 2001, pp. 965-971 SPECIAL ARTICLE:
ABSTRACT The United States is becoming increasingly pluralistic. Pediatricians must become familiar with the factors that affect the emotional, physical, and spiritual ...
Shia Muslims in Kenya began holding rituals to mourn the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS).
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Shia Muslims in Kenya began holding rituals to mourn the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS). The Board of Trustees of Kenyan Jafari Shias’ Islamic Education Center has invited Ghanaian cleric Sheikh Abdul Jalil Nawui for the rituals. The Husseiniya of the center in Nairobi hosts the programs during ...
The girl, a year seven student from Thomastown in Melbourne, was in the Iraqi capital with her family to visit her sick grandfather. The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, identified her as Zynab Al Harbiya, and said the Australian government was providing consular support to her family in Baghdad. She was reportedly at the counter of al-Faqma ice-cream parlour when a suicide car bomb exploded outside just before midnight local time, ...
- A political analyst and author based in London warned against the deteriorating health conditions of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority, saying that Al Khalifa’s move to deny medical treatment to the top cleric is nothing but “1st-degree murder”.“Sheikh Isa Qassim needs urgent medical attention; denying him equates to a death sentence … this is 1st-degree murder,” ...
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 ...
As a Doctor of Medicine, and a descendant of a French Catholic family, the very choice of my profession has given me a solid scientific culture which had prepared me very little for a mystic life. Not that I did not believe in God, but that the dogmas and rites of Christianity in general and of Catholicism in particular never permitted me to feel His presence. Thus my unitary sentiment for God forbade my accepting the dogma of the Trinity, and ...
The Punjab police in India has made three arrests in relation to sacrilege of the sacred Muslim Holy Scripture ‘Quran Sharif’ in Malerkotla on June ...
- Iranian cultural caravan of ‘Under the Shade of the Sun’, announced Imam Reza holy shrine's flag was presented to the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.Sheikh Zakzaky’s close friends claimed they were allowed to take the sacred flag inside the prison which has been very pleasing for the family of Sheikh Zakzaky and his Mujahid wife.His family appreciated the action of Astan Quds Razavi and asked ...
he Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council (IMPIC) is calling on Irish mosques and Islamic organizations to request foreign speakers to sign an anti-extremism declaration. It has also suggested the department of justice might incorporate the signing of the declaration into the visa conditions for visiting speakers. The declaration calls on those who sign it to state they “unequivocally reject, disown and condemn all terrorism ...
- Hujjat al-Islam Nazim Husain Akbar, the director of the Pakistan think-tank of al-Mustafa International University and the founder and director of the Abu Talib Research Institute in Iran and Pakistan, has referred to the political, social, cultural thought among Shi’a Muslims in Pakistan in an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency.The Pakistani cleric said that unless Pakistanis raise and educate their children in a correct manner ...
During Muharram, benefactors cook and distribute food offerings among neighbors, family and the needy. Free food is also offered to people who take part in mourning ceremonies. Large numbers of black-clad Iraqi and Iranian mourners plus people from other countries have also flocked to the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala, which is home to Imam Hussein’s holy shrine, to attend mourning rituals. Mourning processions are also underway in ...
A young Dutch Christian has converted to Islam and became Shia Muslim in presence of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib, the grand custodian of the Holy Shrine of Ahmadi and Muhammadi. Ayatollah Dastgheib said Islam is an ever lasting and permanent religion and Quran is a book superior to the Gospel and Torah. He said Torah and Gospel have been distorted throughout history but Holy Quran is the original divine words and ever lasting despite ...
The High Criminal Court in Bahrain has sentenced two Bahraini nationals to 15 years in jail over allegations of damaging a police vehicle. The court on Wednesday issued the sentence in connection with an alleged bomb explosion in 2013 that damaged the vehicle. The new development comes as human rights organizations have cast doubt on the independence of the Bahraini courts and challenge the sentences issued against the political detainees as ...
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 ...
She was born in Isfahan and started her initial Religious studies under her mother and then also studied under Scholars such as Ayatullah Shaikh Haidar `Ali al Muhaqqiq, Ayatullah Shaikh Nuruddin Ashni etc. But her main mentor was the lady Mujtahidah Banu Amin al Isfahani, under whom she studied for a lengthy period of time and remained attached to her.Prayers were performed upon her by Ayatullah Shaikh Husain al Mazahiri and she was laid to ...
Visiting Imam Reza Holy Shrine (AS), five Swedish nationals converted to Islam and became Shia Muslims. Getting familiar with the fundamental principles of Islam, accepting the oneness of God, prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), as well as confessing to the Velayat of Ali (AS), the visiting tourists converted their profession of faith and became Shia Muslims. Director of Non-Iranian Pilgrims' Affairs of Imam Reza (AS) Holy Shrine Javad ...
"We’ve made a lot of adjustments over the five years to grow,” says organizer Salima Jivraj. "The flow is very important.” Families form the core audience for the event, and she’s figured out how to customize the space for them, with details like 20-feet-wide aisles (the standard is 10) a nursing area and lots of seating. "We’ve increased our kids area by 50 per cent this year, double what it was last year.” ...
Nigeria’s Nollywood famous actress, Lola Alao, has reverted to Islam and changed her name to Rhodiat, joining the fastest growing religion in the world.
“Glory be to Allah. Join me in congratulating Lola Alao (a popular Nollywood actress). She just took the Kalimatu Shaa’dah from me, and chose the name Rhodiat,” Adepoju Yusuf, who claims to be her teacher, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday, July 20.
“May Allah give her ...
Kurdish forces (Peshmergas) after their sporadic attacks on Shia city of "Tuz Khormato" eventually entered the town with dozens of armored vehicles on last Thursday (21 November) and occupied parts of it.These forces after entering the town, killed four Iraqi forces (al-Hashad al-Shaabi) at a security checkpoint, set fire to the houses and shops of Shiite Turkmens, looted their property and assets and insulted and took down Imam Hussein's ...
