As many as 58 Shia Muslims embraced martyrdom due to targeted attacks on them by the takfiri terrorists of banned Deobandi ASWJ and its allied-wings in Pakistan in 2016.Takfiris of banned Deobandi terror outfits continued attacks on peaceful and law-abiding patriot Pakistan Shia Muslims, the co-religionists of founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali JInnah but the State authorities have failed to take needed action to eliminate the banned terror ...
rom Calvary to Karbala. My name is Brother Yahya Hayder Seymour and the following is my conversion story to the path of Islam and eventually the Path of the Ahlul Bayt (as). The Path of the Ahlul Bayt and Islam are not separate far from it, they are the immaculate guides who would serve Islam in History as the preservers of our faith, where many tried to corrupt it. The following is my spiritual wayfaring biography from Birth- till where I am ...
A Canadian youth converted to Islam in his first attendance in the Razavi Holy Shrine. Jonathan Clark, 30, from Canada converted to Islam Shi’ite in his first attendance in the Razavi Holy Shrine and chose the name “Muhammad” after uttering twin formulae of faith. Concerning his acquaintance with Islam, Muhammad said, “The morality, behavior and conduct of an Iranian classmate were very fascinating to me. When ...
Photos of Muhammad Ali, Boxing legend at holy shrines of Imam Hussain, Imam Ridha and Imam Khomeini
Muhammad Ali at holy shrine of Imam Ridha in Mashhad, Iran
Muhammad Ali at holy shrine of Imam Hussain in Karbala, Iraq
Muhammad Ali at Imam Khomeini shrine in Tehran, ...
- Working from sunset to sundown, a British Muslim couple from County Durham has been offering free meals to 1,500 people in the Calais jungle camp every day all over the past year. The story started when Jamal Ismail and Sofinee Harun took their family caravan to Calais jungle last September, saying they were planning to stay for one week. “We just couldn’t go home. We know that so many people have arrived [in the refugee ...
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 ...
On Saturday, Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the prison term of five years against seven defendants on charges of illegal gathering, setting tires alight along the streets and hurling petrol bombs at armored police vehicles in Manama’s suburban neighborhood of Juffair on August 2, 2013, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported. The court also ordered each of the convicts to pay 300 dinars ($795) for the damage caused ...
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.
Several non-Iranian pilgrims including 10 European and American citizens have converted to Islam in the Holy Shrine in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 19, ...
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen is associate professor of philosophy at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in Qom, Iran, and author of Islam and Religious Pluralism ...
As a business model, The Musalman (The Muslim) — the world's oldest Urdu-language daily newspaper — is unlikely to be replicated. For one thing, The Musalman serves a limited readership in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and any prospective competitors would be hard-pressed to duplicate the paper's network of New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad stringers. For another thing, The Musalman is a handwritten paper. What modern, ...
Relatives of a Muslim man murdered by a racist said they have been recent victims of race hate abuse.Mohammed Saleem, 82, was stabbed on his way home from a Birmingham mosque in 2013. Ukrainian Pavlo Lapshyn admitted killing him because he was not white.The victim's daughter, Maz Saleem, said she and her mother were both recently racially abused and her nieces, aged 11 and 13, were insulted and spat at.She said the hostility was frightening, ...
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 ...
Oscar Salvador Rodriguez Pineda was born in 1971 into a Christian family in the Central American country.He learned about Islam when reading about religions as a student of paleontology.He embraced Shia Islam in 2000 after reading a lot of books about the religion and changed his name to Mustafa El Salvadori.Years later, he started studying at the Islamic Seminary of Qom after travelling to the Islamic Republic of Iran for a one-day ...
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 ...
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 ...
- Grand Iranian Shia cleric, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, urged continued contacts between the Qom Islamic Seminary and Vatican saying divine religions have to join hands in a bid to counter extremist and Takfiri groups.Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi made the comments here on Saturday in a meeting with Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, during which they welcomed expansion of ties between the two ...
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 Federal High Court in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna on Friday rejected the suit by the prominent Shia cleric, who was seeking 5.6 million dollars in damages over the 2015 attacks by army troopers that led to the killing of some 350 of his followers in the northern city of Zaria, including his three children. Zakzaky was himself brutally injured, and his house was reportedly destroyed by the Nigerian army in the attack. He has been ...
- In a meeting with Maulana Hatem Zeky al Din, a senior cleric of Indian Ismailis, held in Asra International Institute in Qom on Sunday October 30, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli stated that the core of unity among Muslim community is the holy book of Quran as well as the Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s) adding, " Both the holy Quran and Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s) brought the message of monotheism to mankind and invited them to worship Allah; If the Muslim community ...
On Tuesday, Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided by Ali Khalifah al-Dhahrani, delivered the death verdicts to Sayed Ahmed Fouad al-Abar and Hussein Ali Mahdi, sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment and passed prison sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years to eight others, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported. The court also revoked the nationality of nine of the convicts, and ordered them to pay 28, 716 ...
