A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people, according to the interior ministry. The explosion triggered by a suicide bomber happened in Baqer-ul-uloom mosque in the Darul Aman area. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said that 70 people were also wounded. Police said more deaths were feared. Several police vehicles raced from the scene, ferrying the wounded to ...
Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sided with the Israeli regime over the ongoing crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to Press TV, the remarks came after Ban on Wednesday met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. He told reporters after the meeting “There is no justification for killing each other. I have ...
The court frowned at the continued disobedience of its order to release El-Zakzaky and others by the SSS, IG and the AG, threatening to invoke the Contempt of Court order and commit them to prison. The court said unless the FG agents obeyed its direction contained in the order of the Federal High Court of Justice delivered on 2 December, 2016, which ordered the release of El-Zakzaky and Ibraheem within 40 days, they would be guilty of contempt ...
According to larussiedaujourdhui website, the course has been organized by the custodianship of the Memorial Mosque of the region.
Similar courses were also held in 2012 by a group of young adults educated in Quranic fields.
The group is now organizing Arabic language classes for people with hearing impairment at the mosque with the aim of enabling them to read the Quranic verses.
The organizers of the Quranic course hope that the prayers at ...
A teenager in the US state of Virginia has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for providing material support to the Daesh Takfiri group and helping another teen travel to Syria to join the terrorists. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, from the town of Manassas, was sentenced Friday to 11 years and four months in federal prison by US District Judge Claude M. Hilton at the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. The teen will also be subject to a ...
Officials from China’s traditionally Muslim region of Xinjiang say they will not interfere with fasting and other standard religious activities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The restive region is home to China’s Uighur minority group.
However, human rights groups and Uighurs in exile say restrictions on dress, prayer and fasting during Ramadan have exacerbated ethnic tensions and stoked ...
West Yorkshire Police confirmed it had received around six reports of letters advertising “Punish a Muslim Day”, while people in London and Birmingham said identical post had been delivered to their ...
Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, stressed that the axis of Resistance won’t be defeated and will keep on supporting Palestine, whose banner will be raised again. In a popular ceremony in the Bekaa town of Nabi Sheet on the occasion of “Resistance Liberation Day,” Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the Zionist entity “is our enemy” and that the only way to confront this enemy is by resistance. His ...
Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi, the commander of the Fallujah liberation operation, told Iraqi state TV on Sunday that the last remaining district held by Daesh in the city had been retaken.
Saidi further said at least 1,800 Takfiri militants were killed in the Fallujah operation.
Iraqi government troops initially launched the offensive to retake Fallujah on May 23.
Iraqi Prime Minister congratulated the nation on the ...
- The Nigerian military disclosed that some of its officers had sold arms and ammunition to Boko Haram.The theatre commander, Operation Lafia Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor, told reporters in Yola that the affected officers were already facing a court-martial. Irabor, who was in Adamawa State to inspect newly acquired warplanes to be used in fight against the militants sect, said military operations would continue until the insurgents ...
It is convened by the Noor-Al-Zahar (AS) Quarnic Institute and will be continued for two years, three days a week, based on a programmed and precise plan.
The teaching course is in the frame work of international Quran competition\'s principles and the age limit for the participants is announced 16-35.
Besides the lessons offered in the field of teaching memorization, the rules regarding the recitation of Quran, Quran sciences and ...
-- Ahmed Naseem, member of Maldives’ Fiqh Academy, has said that there are very good Dhivehi translations of Holy Quran by private scholars.
Speaking in a press conference by the Islamic Ministry, Naseem said that there is a good translation by Sheikh Aboobarkuru Ibrahim as well. He also said that he has obtained a copy and is now analyzing the translation.
State Minister, Mohamed Shameem Ali Saeed also said that Adhaalath Party had ...
Saudi Arabian authorities have confiscated 784 suitcases belonging to hajj pilgrims leaving the kingdom because they were carrying bottles of holy water.M. Raefi, the head of the Religious Affairs Office in Jember, East Java, said on Monday that about 900 suitcases belonging to pilgrims from the district had initially been seized, but the rest had later been released.He added that all the bags had been held because they contained various amounts ...
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described unity as the only solution to the problems the Muslims are facing, saying the “arrogant powers” have created religious wars in the Islamic countries to divert attention from the fight against Israel. “The current division and differences in the region are artificial and imposed (phenomenon), and the Islamic world’s clerics, intelligentsia, ...
The 27-year-old woman, identified as Zahra Saleh, was injured in the forehead by an iron rod hurled by Saudi-backed Bahraini troops during an anti-regime protest in the village of Daih on November 18.
The young protester, who had had been hospitalized with serious injuries since then, died early on Wednesday. Some reports suggest that she was not participating in the protest and that she was a passerby when regime troops attacked ...
Most members of the Iranian Quranic delegation to Hajj will leave the holy city of Medina for Makkah today, November 3.
12 members of the 32-strong group will wear the Ihram and leave Medina to join the other 7 who are in Makkah. The rest of the group will be in Makkah on Friday.
Titled Nur (the light), the group consists of some of the most prominent Quran reciters and memorizers of the country as well as a Tawasheeh group.
Their ...
-- Saudi Arabian authorities have given the assurance that there will be enough water to cater for the millions of pilgrims during the Haj at the end of this month.
Sixty-three water storage tanks in Mecca and the holy sites, with a total capacity of 2.5 million cubic metres, will be filled for the use of the pilgrims, Saudi Arabian English daily "Arab News" quoted the General Supervisor of the Directorate of Water, Muhammad Ahmad Bughdadi, as ...
According to Ahlul Bayt (A) News Agency – ABNA.ir – The city, which is home to the grand ayatollahs who wield huge influence among Iraq’s Shiite majority community, will be the first in the country to get a rapid transit system, with proposals for a Baghdad metro still very much on the drawing board. The monorail will ferry pilgrims between Najaf’s most revered shrines, the Mausoleum of Imam Ali in the city center and the Grand and ...
