Saudi Arabia has sentenced 14 people to death over their participation in 2011 pro-democracy protests in Shia-populated region of Qatif in Eastern Province.
Al-Arabiya TV reported the ruling, saying the 14 people were " convicted of attacks on police."
Nine others were handed long-term jail sentences, Reuters news agency quoted their defense lawyer as saying on condition of anonymity.
The lawyer said that the jail terms were 15 years, noting ...
A ceremony was held yesterday, January 31, in Somalia’s northern city of Hargeisa to honor winners of the Quran memorization competition, according to the website of the World Quran Memorization Association (WQMA).
The ceremony was attended by Somalia’s grand Mufti Muhammad Umar Durrar, Quranic and Islamic figures and representative of the WQMA Khizr Muhammad Hussein Addam.
The competition head been organized by the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), SOUTH Africa’s Muslim community says as many as 130000 Muslim fans could visit for the World Cup, and it has set up welcome centres and a website to tell visitors where to eat and pray near stadiums.
In Cape Town local Muslims are expecting to welcome Muslim supporters from Algeria, who will play England in Cape Town tomorrow, as well as Muslims from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
“The World Cup ...
--Turkey’s Ministry of Religious Affairs has issued a decree making it necessary to have permit for publishing digital or paper copies of the holy Quran.
According to veteknoloji, the decision has been made in order for preventing publication of distorted versions of the holy Quran and safeguarding the rights of publishers.
In order to publish the Quran online, Turkish websites need to get permission from the Ministry of Communications. As ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), A text of the translation prepared by Mykhailo Yakubovych was approved for publishing by the Commission of the King Fahd Center located in Medina (Saudi Arabia).
In the nearest future the Ukrainian-language version of the Quran will be published.
The Quran was translated into English over 100 times, for Russian - about 10 times. There was no full translation of the Quran into Ukrainian.
The first attempt to ...
Six settlers were banned from several West Bank settlements and three were banned from Yitzhar.
The right-wing settlers have been involved with the burning of mosques, the burning of Palestinian cars, and torching Palestinian buildings for that past two years.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Major General Avi Mizrahi said, “What’s happening in the field is terrorism, the burning of mosques, the destruction of olive groves or the ...
Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi, a senior Shia cleric, received Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the Chairman for the Committee of Foreign Policy and National Security of the Iranian Parliament along with a delegation on Wednesday, January 18, in the Iraqi city of Najaf. During the meeting, the Iraqi source of emulation urged both countries of Iran and Iraq to boost their bilateral ties in different areas including security and economic fields, "All ...
At least 110 Taliban insurgents were killed in Afghan air and ground force attacks in Musa Qala district of Southern Helmand province, the Afghan army said in a statement. The statement said that 26 other Taliban insurgents including their commanders were injured in the operations. The incident comes after Afghan security forces launched clearing operations in Musa Qala and air forces targeted the insurgents in which 110 insurgents were ...
"Polling has shown that Canadian Muslims are proud to be Canadian, more so than the average Canadian,” said Ihsaan Gardee, Executive Director of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"Canadian Muslims very much want to integrate and be part and parcel of the society.” A National Household Survey found Wednesday, May 8, that Canada’s Muslim population increased by 82 percent over the past decade – from about 579,000 in 2001 ...
All Muslim brothers and sisters must bear in mind that one of the important elements of the philosophy of Hajj is creation of mutual understanding and consolidation of brotherhood among the Muslims. It is therefore, incumbent upon the Ulema and clergymen to discuss their essential political and social problems with other brothers in order to devise plans for the elimination of such problems so as to enable the other brothers to pose these ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency -ABNA- Closing ceremony of the 8th International Congress of Muslim Medics was held at the University of Beheshti in Tehran, on Wednesday.
At the beginning of the ceremony a Pakistani poet read a poem about the Shiite martyrs of the country, and then Mrs. "Hashemi", American-born journalist and a documentary filmmaker of Press TV, and professor Qauumi, a board member of the Imamia Medics International, delivered their ...
--Since the opening of the international section of the 17th International Quran Exhibition on August 29, a flurry of criticisms has been leveled at Mohammad-Ali Khajepiri, the director of the exhibition, over poor quality of the artworks and the scale of the section.
In an interview with the Iranian Quran news Agency (IQNA) he responded to criticisms by saying that as the Iranian arts rank above those of other Islamic countries, it makes it ...
Exeter Muslim community say peace was at the heart of their decision to withdraw community centre application subject of an offensive campaign
CHOOSING to put a peaceful end to an argument over plans to create a new community centre in Exeter is a Shia Muslim organisation.
Members of the South West Ahlulbayt Centre had an emergency meeting this week following an anonymous campaign against plans to relocate to the vacant John Holt Beds building ...
The Islamic Sciences and the Philosophy of Science
One of the topics currently of great interest among the scholars and researchers of Qom is about whether Western philosophy of science can be used to help understand the structure of religious knowledge. From the period between the world wars, when views about the philosophy of science were presented by members of the Vienna Circle, until the present day, numerous ...
Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi condemned the Manama regime’s move to strip Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim of his Bahraini citizenship as an “inhumane and evil” measure, saying it is the Al Khalifa rulers who do not belong to Bahrain.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said the Al Khalifa rulers, who lack wisdom and prudence, are entangled in a dangerous vortex by ...
there is no one in the whole universe whose affection toward human is like the Allah Almighty,s affection and kindness toward human. based on this affection, Allah has granted the human with two types of Aliments which these aliments are mentioned both in the holy Quran and the narrations and supplications. One aliments of the lord of the universe is material which is an apparent and obvious one. And another aliment of the Almighty Allah is the ...
Urging scholars to work together to change the 'not so friendly' perspective of the European nations about Islam and Muslims, Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor Riyaz Punjabi said the scholars have a role to play in removing all the misconceptions about the religion.
Urging scholars to work together to change the 'not so friendly' perspective of the European nations about Islam and Muslims, Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor ...
Qom-Darolerfan/ the researcher, exegete, and scholar of the Holy Quran considered Imam as a complete compass toward the right path and said: Imam is a complete direction, compass toward the right path; some corrupted, infidel people and those who are engaged in bribery as well as embezzlement have no knowledge about the appointed Imam by the Almighty Allah.
According to the public relations and international affairs of the scientific and ...
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined the necessity for increased unity among Muslims to prevent implementation of enemies' plots. Addressing a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, at his mausoleum in Tehran on Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized the need for sticking to the late Imam's principles, and said the Islamic ...
