Please introduce yourself.- I am Shima Moradi I was born thirty years ago in Ahwaz. I resided along with my family in Stockholm, Sweden capital, when I was two years old.
The atmosphere of Sweden should have affected you. How were you able to keep your Iranian identity and religion through all these years?- No, it was not as you think. I had gone to Sweden as a child and did not remember anything of my people or my country. Hence, I was affected ...
Calgary's Muslim community has been holding events recently leading up to the celebration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.
CALGARY, Canada (Bayt Agency) - Calgary's Muslim community has been holding events recently leading up to the celebration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.
The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), the Islamic Association of Canadian Women (IACW) and the Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre have jointly organized ...
I was born in lebanon,my father is druze(non-mslim) and my mother christian. I had all christian learnings from my christian school, and my mother home encouraged me to learn more about jesus. This lasted till my late adolescence, when i realised that Bible,although a good book,did not penetrate to the depth of my Soul. It is the story of jesus and his actions ,but i could not find in it the majesty of the words of God. So i asked God to ...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured international and local human rights groups of “appropriate response” to a report of the judicial inquiry into the Army's barbaric attack towards unarmed members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria last December. This was revealed on Tuesday, August 16, in a statement by a presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, who shared it on his Facebook page. Read the statement below: "President Muhammadu ...
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 ...
American boxer, Three times World Heavyweight Champion, embraced Islam in 1965. "I have had many nice moments in my life. But the feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat (just outside Makka, Saudi Arabia) on the day of the Hajj (the Muslim pilgrimage), was the most unique. I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere there as over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins and bestow on them His ...
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 ...
– ABNA – pro-Saudi Arabia regime media have reported the martyrdom of “Sham al-din Mohammad Sharaf al-din”, Chairman of the Union of Yemeni scholars, in Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.
According to this report, pro-Saudi media and the resigned Yemeni President have announced that “Abd al-Rahman Shams al-Din” and a number of his entourage have been martyred in Saudi airstrikes.
This media called Sham al-din Mohammad ...
Kaduna state governor Nasir el–Rufai made a startling revelation last week. He admitted openly to financially sponsoring terrorists in Nigeria and neighboring countries.
The governor publicly admitted that he sent emissaries to give money from Nigeria’s treasury to Fulani insurgents who had taken to brazen and brutal terror, mass massacring mostly Christian communities in South Kaduna in retaliation for alleged deaths of their ...
An interview with Fatima Isabel Fernandes a catholic Christian from Portugal who converted to Islam:
Hi Fatima. How long have you been Muslim? What was your name before? Please give us a short biography of yourself.
I’ve been Muslim for two years and I was Catholic before like my family. I added Fatima before my name because I converted in lady Fatima’s birthday , now I’m Fatima Isabel. I’m 36 years old and come from ...
According to a report published in al-Riyadh newspaper on Friday, Samer Lababidi was taken into custody the previous day after he flashed the victory sign in his Facebook picture following the recapture of Aleppo by the Syrian army soldiers and their allies. The man, who is in his forties, faces accusations of publishing statements related to the war on Syria, the report added. Saudi authorities deactivated Lababidi's Facebook account after ...
Mythology In Chinese mythology, a Nian is a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains. Every spring, on or around Chinese New Year, it comes out of hiding to attack people, especially children. The Nian is sensitive to loud noises and is afraid of the colour red. In the Chinese New Year customs such as decorating things in red, exploding firecrackers, and performing a lion dance were originally used to scare the beast away. Some people ...
Senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri praised Foad Kanso, the translator of Sahifa Sajjadiyya into Croatian for the work.According to the Iranian Cultural Center in Zagreb, Ayatollah Taskhiri, a top adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in religious affairs, in a ceremony in the Croatian capital on Wednesday, described Kanso’s translation as a lasting work for the European country’s ...
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky says there were some renewed efforts by the government and its agencies to label it as "violent and terrorist".
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky says there were some renewed efforts by the government and its agencies to label it as "violent and terrorist".A statement by the movement's head of ...
In December, the boxing legend issued a statement criticizing presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Ali called on Muslims to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.”
“American Muslims would be well-served to look at the challenges that Muslims such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali had to deal with,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the ...
- In an effort to dispel preconceptions about the Muslim faith, several local mosques in Bolingbrook, Illinois have been conducting open houses in recent weeks and inviting the public to find out more about their religion 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. ...
A German lady converted to Islam in the Razavi Holy Shrine. The German lady became interested in Islam and embraced it after she had made familiar with her Muslim husband. “I was a student of social work in Estonia University when I became familiar with Iranian families and their customs that resulted in my interest in Islam”, said Nadia concerning her converting to Islam. “This is the first time I am visiting the Razavi ...
Nigerian forces have opened fire at a group of Shia Muslims holding a demonstration in preparation for the upcoming Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia ...