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 Muslim American couple says they were kicked off Delta Airlines plane after an airline employee complained to the pilot she had not been comfortable with having them on board, based on their ...
A number of pro-government social media accounts announced the demise of the head of the General Directorate of Public Guards, Colonel Khalid Mohammed Al-Wazzan.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A number of pro-government social media accounts announced the demise of the head of the General Directorate of Public Guards, Colonel Khalid Mohammed Al-Wazzan.Al-Wazzan is notorious for being one of the main officers whose names were linked to acts of ...
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, ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - On Friday the 11th of Aug 2017 The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (AFIMN) organzed its annual August Conference on unity and interfaith dialogue.
It began with a remarkable lecture by Dr. Aliyu Tilde on 'How hate preaching is destroying the fabrics of unity in Nigeria'. Reverend Joshua Ray Maina of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Bauchi Chapter delivered his lecture on the topic 'How to ...
The Washington-based Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) organized a sit-in outside the Bahraini Embassy in the US capital in a show of solidarity with Hassan Mushaima.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Washington-based Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) organized a sit-in outside the Bahraini Embassy in the US capital in a show of solidarity with Hassan Mushaima. Activists gathered outside ...
The University of Iowa in USA is reconfiguring two former offices in its Iowa Memorial Union to be used as full-time prayer spaces, primarily for the school's Muslim faculty, staff, and students. On this River to River segment, host Ben Kieffer sits down with Saad Ansari, president of the University of Iowa Muslim Student Association, to discuss the need for a space for private prayer on campus. "Having this space is a tremendous step for ...
- 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,” ...
- The UN human rights office says it is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, although the government is insultingly dismissing the claims and making the situation worse. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Friday the government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has taken a "short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous" approach to the crisis.In a statement, the UN High Commissioner for Human ...
A book reading competition on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir has been planned to be held in Quetta, Pakistan."Misbah al-Quran” Academy of the city will organize the cultural competition for students.A book titled "The Principles of Belief” by Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, a Shia source of emulation, is the source of questions of the competition.Those willing to participate in the competition should sign up by August 30.4 winners of ...
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 ...
- An American Muslim said, "Attending at the Razavi Holy Shrine has created an indescribable calmness in me. When I am praying, I feel an increased sense of closeness to ...
The Muslim Youth Association is going to hold 100 Holy Quran Exhibitions across Canada as part of the Islam Understood campaign. A number of Muslim youth will be canvassing Collingwood neighbourhoods on Sunday as part of a campaign to teach others about Islam. They will be joined by thousands of others who will fan out across 65 towns across Canada in addition to core downtown intersections in major Canadian cities. "In light of our teachings ...
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 ...
An official reported unidentified people on a motorbike, gunned down Advocate Shahid Abbas Shirazi near Wensam College in DI Khan. The incident triggered widespread protests.
AhlulBayt News Agency - The killing of a Shiite lawyer in Pakistan's DI Khan on first day of Eid al-Fitr sparked widespread protests.According to the police, the incident took place even though security had been tightened. This was the fifth such attack in the last few ...
Speaking at a session in Rahyaftegan (converts) Section of the 21st International Holy Quran Exhibition, Oscar, or Mostafa since his conversion, said he studied about Islam for three years before embracing the religion.Mostafa noted that he is the first El Salvadorian to become a Shia Muslim.“At first, I thought Muslims are all one group and sect but after coming across the word ‘Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS)’ in my studies and ...
St. Cloud-area religious leaders said Sunday they stand with the Muslim community after a series of vandalism at the Central Minnesota Islamic Center.Religious and community members, including members of the Great River Interfaith Partnership, met Sunday at the Islamic center on Fourth Avenue South. In the past month four incidents of vandalism have been reported there.About 25 community members discussed the issue and looked at the damage done ...
The first thing I noticed when I visited al-Awamiya, a Shiite town in oil-rich eastern Saudi Arabia, was its utter isolation and stark poverty. Ringed by date groves, it is a tableau of drab buildings, car-repair shops, and restless young men that stands in sharp contrast to the gleaming wealth that most people imagine when they think of Saudi Arabia. It wasn’t easy to get there. My Shiite hosts threaded a twisting, unpaved road through ...
1. DefinitionChristian Zionism is the belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy, and is a necessary prerequisite for the return of Jesus to reign on Earth. This belief is commonly, though not exclusively, associated with evangelical Protestants around the world.[1]This belief is distinct from the general political belief ...
