Every weekend, the volunteers of GainPeace, a Muslim group based in Chicago, reserve a table, pack up a tent, banners, Qurans, and placards and visit a public festival in ...
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 ...
However, I soon realised that there was so much more to this faith than I could ever have imagined. I realised that everything I knew about Islam was completely false. Instead I was presented with a faith that was logical, beautiful, fair and miraculous. I found a God who was so worthy of worship and so merciful to his creation and a Prophet (pbuh) with a beautiful and pure heart.
But things happened. The first thing was I left my fiancé. ...
Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi in a meeting with the Custodian of the Holy Shrine of Hazrat Masumeh (S.A.) stressed the need for further interaction between the Holy and Honorable Shrines to facilitate the pilgrimage and develop the cultural and promotional ...
An official said that militants lobbed a grenade at a police party in Murran Chowk, resulting in injuries to four civilians and one CRPF trooper.One of the injured civilians identified as Muhammad Ayub Wani of Gosu village succumbed to injuries at a hospital, he said.The injured trooper Dalbir Singh, who reportedly suffered critical injuries, was shifted to Srinagar for advanced treatment, he added.Doctors at District Hospital Pulwama told CNS ...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has embraced Islam after visiting the holy shrine of Hazrat Fatima Masoumeh (PBUH) in Iran’s holy city of Qom.The 43-year-old half-sister of Cherie Blair now wears hijab whenever she leaves her home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque."Now I don’t eat pork and I read the Holy Qur’an every day. I’m on page 60. I also haven’t had a drink in ...
The program was attended by more than 100 Muslim women from different European countries who are actively involved in dissemination of Ahl-ul-Bayt’s (AS) teachings. Introduction of European Muslim women’s activities and formation of a specialized council to convey the message of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) were the main objectives of the program. It was addressed by Ayatollah Ramezani, imam and director of the Islamic Center of Hamburg, ...
While expressing great concern over successive events of burning of school buildings, senior Shiite cleric and president J&K Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian and senior Hurriyat leader Aga Syed Hassan Almosvi Alsafvi declared it with the end of veto future vision.In a statement, he said the successive events of school ashes are a conspiracy of stigmatizing to the ongoing freedom movement struggle. To get education is an Islamic duty and the ...
hlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Shiites in Kashmir came to the streets despite heavy night-time security and condemned Saudi crimes against Muslims. Participants in the protest slogans against al-Saud and the United States. Saudi Arabia recently ordered the execution of 37 Muslims from different countries, 32 of which were ...
- 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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sean Stone, the 27 year old son of Oliver Stone, Hollywood’s prominent Director, said at a press conference in Tehran that he has accepted Islam and believes that Christians, Jews and Moslems all worship one god.He has added another name to his first name as a sign of his acceptance; he is now Sean Christopher-Ali Stone. He says that he first became interested in Islam when he was in high school. Oliver Stone, Sean Christopher, ...
Eduardo Agnelli was born on June 1954 in New York City, his father was Christian and his mother was Jewish. His mother (Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto) was a Jewish princess and his father was Senator Gianni Agnelli, a famous and rich man in Italy. He was the owner of automobile factories, Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo and Iveco and also factories producing industrial parts.
In addition there are many building constructions ...
I am from a little East European country called Lithuania, where Christianity is the dominating religion and where a babies first few days of life announce them as Christians.[Young Muslim man guides Lithuania girl to Islam]I ‘ve never been an atheist but I never called myself a good Christian. At one point I began to think about why my parent's had not asked me if I wanted to be a Christian they simply christened me as a baby. I would ...
Academic Forum under the leadership of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky Bauchi State chapter has paid a visit to orphans and vulnerable children center in Bauchi in the series of programs that was started in memory of Imam Khomeini (Q.S) and distributes some Items which includes, detergents, soap, sanitary tissue paper ...
Non-Muslims living in Oman embraced Islam during the Holy month of Ramadan after several events organised by the ministry took place during the month, where non-Muslims were given the chance to learn about the religion and clarify their doubts about certain aspects of the religion.
Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Khalili, head of the Department of Islamic Knowledge and Cultural Exchange, said some of the converts were surprised about the amount of respect ...
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 ...
Mohammad al-Tijani al-Samawi was a Tunisian student who, upon making Hajj, was influenced by orthodox Saudi teachings, against saint veneration and tomb visitation, which were central to the North African Sufi tradition.
A few years later, al-Samawi was in Egypt on an Islamic tour of the Middle East and ran into an Iraqi student, Mun'im, who invited him to Iraq to see shia Islam with his own eyes, and forget what he had heard of them through ...
