Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and visiting Nigerian cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky, in a meeting in the holy city of Qom on Saturday, discussed the Islamic awakening movement in the African country.
In the meeting, Zakzaky pointed to the continuation of the Islamic movement founded by the late Imam Khomeini in Iran, and said, "Like the movement led by Imam Khomeini, we are moving toward the awakening of nations."
He also ...
Turkey censors TV series after row with Israel
Turkey's public broadcaster TRT has removed scenes of Israeli violence against Palestinians from a TV series.
Turkey's public broadcaster TRT has removed scenes of Israeli violence against Palestinians from a TV series that caused a diplomatic row with Israel, the producer was quoted as saying Thursday. A scene showing Israeli soldiers shooting a row of blindfolded ...
-- Moral teachings originate from Islam and civilizations develop only based on these moral principles.
Zahra Khorasani, a press activist and author of "Peace Queen" and “Role of Dialogue in Quran Stories" added, "It is a training based on Islamic morality that shapes human character. The holy Quran stresses that anyone who lacks moralities, lacks human character."
"Islam is the base of moral teachings and morality has a very critical ...
Bahraini forces have reportedly arrested at least 32 people during separate raids on a number of houses across the kingdom in the past 24 hours as the ruling Al Khalifah regime intensities its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents. Bahraini troops stormed Sitra Island, located five kilometers south of the capital, Manama, broke into some 50 homes and violently searched them, causing excessive property damage before detaining 21 ...
The project for constructing the biggest mosque in Africa began in a ceremony in the Algerian capital of Algiers. The ceremony was officiated by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.The mosque is built on a 20-hectar lot of land in the Muhammadia district of Algiers. Upon completion, it will accommodate 120,000 worshippers. It will have a library with a study hall holding 2000 people. There will also be a museum and a research center. The Algiers ...
Activists on social media said that the Bahraini authorities on Thursday (October 7, 2015) took down flags and banners for Ashura season which the Shiites majority in Bahrain commemorates on the onset of the Hijri year of the Islamic calendar.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Activists on social media said that the Bahraini authorities on Thursday (October 7, 2015) took down flags and banners for Ashura season which the Shiites majority in Bahrain ...
Afghan National Police backed by NATO-led forces eliminated 39 Taliban militants in Afghanistan's southern region on Friday, a statement of Interior Ministry released here Sunday said. "Afghan National Police backed by international troops launched an operation in Chanarto and Behzak areas of Uruzgan province bordering Shah Walikot district of neighboring Kandahar province on Friday as a result 39 militants were killed," the statement ...
Egyptian Islamist thinker and presidential candidate highlighted the necessity of Shia in the political life of the country and demanded Shia not to be isolated due to the crimes of the former regime. Mohammad Salim Al-Awa, Egyptian Islamic thinker and a proximity activist said Egyptian nation are famous for their love of the household of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)."Affection of Egyptian nation to Ahlul Bayt (AS) is to the point that some ...
India has always been an important source of the foreign labour that has built Kuwait's skyscrapers, taught in its schools and run its businesses.With the opening of a mosque this year, the subcontinent has become a source of architectural inspiration, too. The As-Sadeeqa Fatimatul Zahra Mosque, built in the style of the Taj Mahal, is already gaining a reputation as one of Kuwait's most distinctive buildings."It's giving a sight for the ...
A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered the dissolution of main opposition group Al-Wefaq, and the seizure of its funds. A judicial source said that the so-called administrative court in Manama ordered tthe dissolution of al-Wefaq, almost a month after the regime suspended its activities. The ruling is part of a wide crackdown on political dissent in Bahrain, is certain to prompt more protests in the country, whose embattled regime has faced an ...
The secretariat of the second congress on international Islamic resistance movement has issued a call for submitting works.
It will feature works in the category of poetry as well as articles, research papers and dissertations.
The congress, which is planned to be held in November 2011, aims the study the cultural and historical foundations of resistance literature in Iran and around the world, introducing resistance poets in Iran, the ...
Swiss Muslims held rally to condemn Bahrain government and voice their support for Bahraini nation. Muslims in the European capital of Bern held demonstration to voice their anger over the crackdown of the civilians by Bahraini and Saudi forces.
Crying out mottos to call for an immediate stop of the genocide in Bahrain, Swiss Muslims asked Bahrain government to maintain the legal demands of the people previously mentioned in peaceful ...
Religious intolerance is a daily reality in Europe. Mainly targeted at Muslims, attacks on religious pluralism focus on refusing to share public space with non-majority religions or only tolerating practices seen as “secular.” The key voices of intolerance are neither marginal nor can they be dismissed as old-style far-right activists. They are today often heads of government, important ministers, or powerful politicians.
Their words ...
Kabul : An unknown disease has destroyed almost half of Afghanistan's opium crop, and British and US troops are being suspected of spreading the disease.
The disease, which causes opium poppy flowers to change from red to yellow and then dry up, has spread over plantations in Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, just before the harvest, a UN Office on Drugs and Crime official said Thursday.
Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's ...
The number of umrah-goers from Turkey reached a record of 421,000 in the first eight months of the year, according to figures from the Religious Affairs Directorate.The number was 180,931 during the whole year in 2009 and 278,554 in 2011.Umrah is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, performed by Muslims, which can be taken at any time of the year unlike the Hajj, which is on a certain date.In August, which this year overlapped with Ramadan, ...
Pakistan’s Quran Foundation mounted a Quran exhibition in the port city of Karachi earlier this month.
Pakistan’s Quran Foundation mounted a Quran exhibition in the port city of Karachi earlier this month.
On display are also rare Quran copies and Quranic manuscripts from different countries including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan.
In another Quranic event in Karachi, the Jamaran Center organized a ...
While violence can never be condoned or even justified, there are acts which if not definitely violent in action, are so despicably hateful in nature that they should make us pause.
Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in a New Mexico federal court Friday to a misdemeanor hate crime charge of using force to intentionally obstruct the woman’s free exercise of her religious beliefs.
Near the end of the flight, ...
Almost a month after announcing his reversion to Islam, Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor revealed reasons behind his conversion, saying that similarities between the two faiths led him to the truth. “Jesus (pbuh) taught that there is only One God and Only God should be worshipped as taught in Deut 6:4, Mark 12:29. Muslims also believe this as taught in the Qur’an verse 4:171,” Adebayor was quoted by The Herald. Adebayor ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency, Women participants in the first and second stages of this educational plan memorized Juzes 29 and 30 of the holy Quran and learned some rules of Tajweed, Mohammad ibn Rashed Ale Sanid Al-Mera, head of the cultural office of Raaf Institute said.
The second stage of the plan which ended before the holy month of Ramadan was followed by registration for the third stage which is expected to start soon, he added.
With the ...
An international conference is going to be held by some Iranian universities and higher educational institutes on Caucasus on October 20- 1 in Tabriz.
Welcoming all professors, researchers and students who have thus far contributed articles to the conference, the secreterate of the international conference on ‘Caucasus in the context of history’ said that the international conference on ‘Caucasus in the context of history’ is ...
