A suicide bomber targeting a police commander has killed at least 13 people, including nine civilians, in Afghanistan's northern Parwan province. The attack on Monday happened near a clinic and a bazaar, General Zaman Mamozai, the provincial police chief, said. Four local police were among those killed, and another 19 people, including 17 civilians, were wounded, he said. The police commander who was targeted in the attack was among those ...
Millions of Muslims have flocked to Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Reza (Peace be upon him), the eighth Shia Imam.Pictures coming out of the holy city show pilgrims mourning in Imam Reza’s shrine and surrounding streets. Nearly 140-thousand people from all walks of life have braved the elements to go to Mashhad on foot to take part in the ceremony. The pilgrims are mainly Iranians. ...
The seventh Moharram procession in Gilgit turned into a beautiful reminder of the region’s historical harmony which has been shattered during the past four decades.
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A large number of Sunni youth and elders from Yadgar Mohalla, under the leadership of Masajid Board members including Raja Nisar Wali, joined the traditional 7th Moharram mourning procession organized by Shia organizations today, in a ...
The New York Times in a Friday article wired from AP distorted the Tuesday remarks of the Iranian Supreme Leader on the country's terms for a final nuclear deal to blame Ayatollah Khamenei and Tehran upfront in case the nuclear talks fail to end in an agreement.
The Associated Press in an article titled "The Iran Deal: A Look at What It Does and Problems Remaining" and released on the eve of a final round of negotiations between Iran and ...
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 ...
Shi'ite Muslim militiamen and Iraqi army forces launched a counter-offensive against the so-called Islamic State insurgents near Ramadi on Saturday, a militia spokesman said, aiming to reverse potentially devastating gains by the fake jihadi militants.
The fall of Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital, to the so-called Islamic State on May 17 could be a shattering blow to Baghdad's weak central government. The fake jihadis now control most of ...
Oil production and smugglingISIS makes between $1 million and $2 million each day from oil sales. The oil comes mostly from refineries and wells that ISIS controls in northern Iraq and northern Syria.The militants smuggle oil into southern Turkey, for example, and sell it to people who desperately need it just to carry on some semblance of everyday life.ISIS is estimated to produce about 44,000 barrels a day in Syria and 4,000 barrels a day in ...
Bahrainis have staged anti-US rallies outside the capital to protest against Washington’s support for Manama's ongoing crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.
(Bayt Agency) - Bahrainis have staged anti-US rallies outside the capital to protest against Washington’s support for Manama's ongoing crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.Holding the US responsible for the crimes committed against anti-regime protesters in Bahrain, hundreds of ...
The head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, assured that Tikrit city be a cemetery for terrorists affiliated to what is so called the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.
Hakim visited Alam district and get acquainted on the situation of the security forces there where he assured that Tikrit will be a cemetery for terrorists and a start point to liberate ...
Name : FatimaTitle : Az-ZahraKunyat : Umm-ul-AimmaBorn : Friday 20th of Jamadi-ul-Akhar in MeccaFather's Name : Holy Prophet Muhammad Ibn-e-Abdulla (S.A.W.)Mother's Name : Khadija bint-e-KhuwailidMartyred : 13th Jamadi-ul-Awwal or 3rd Jamadi-ul-Akhir 11Hijrah at Medina at the age of18 years (due to injury inflicted upon her through force of a falling door by a hypocrite).Buried :The cemetery of Jannatul Baqi or in the Masjid-un-Nabi at MedinaThe ...
"Whoever visits Imam Husain (AS) fully comprehending and acknowledging his right, Allah rewards him with the equivalent of a thousand accepted obligatory pilgrimages (hajj) and a thousand accepted voluntary pilgrimages (umrah) and forgives him all of his past and present sins." Imam Sadiq (as).1
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - After receiving an invitation from Al-Khoei Islamic Center to join a ziarat (pilgrimage) group to visit the Atabat (holy ...
Mexican Catholics find God in IslamMEXICO CITY (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - For almost five centuries Catholicism has been the dominant religion in Mexico.
In 1970, Catholics comprised 96.7 percent of Mexico's population. By 2010, that number had fallen to 82.7 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Most of this change is attributed to growth in other Christian denominations. Evangelicals, Protestants and Jehovah's Witnesses now account ...
ByMarhoom Allama Zeeshan Haider JawadiThe series of divine messengership that commenced from Hazrat Adam (a.s.) till the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (s.a.w.a.), was completed on the 28th Safar, 11 A.H. Thereafter, the chain of prophethood was replaced with that of Imamat that was openly announced in Ghadeer-e-Khumm. Where the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) handed over the Islamic Ummah to Ameerul Momineen Ali Ibn Abi Taalib (a.s.), marking the ...
Our Iman is not always as sound and strong as we want it to be as it often fluctuates according to life circumstances
10 Steps to Increasing Our Faith(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Our Iman is not always as sound and strong as we want it to be as it often fluctuates according to life circumstances.
There are several causes for weakening Iman such as deficiencies in our prayers or the insinuating whispers from the Shaytan. Regardless of the cause, ...
Egyptian media have described him as the most challenging and controversial Egyptian elders. Shahid Sheikh Hassan Shahata was the most famous orator in Egyptian Mosques which some of his lectures converted 90 percent of his audience to Shiism.
I became Shia when I saw Imam Ali (A.S.)
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hassan Shahata (1946 - 2013), a Sunni cleric who later converted to Shia, the former imam of the largest mosque in Cairo and the ...
Sin - the Arabic equivalents of which are ithm and 'isyan - signifies disobeying the injunctions of the Lord and the failure to comply with His wishes. In other words, the committing of an action which is displeasing to the Lord, the Creator, (due to the harm it entails) or to avoid an action that has been obligated by Him (due to the benefit it entails). Hence, sin is contradictory to the spirit of obedience.
The Reality of Sin
(Ahlul Bayt ...
Thousands of Iraqis have held unity prayers across the country in a show of unity and solidarity in defiance of attempts to push the country into sectarian strife.The joint Shia-Sunni Friday Prayers came against the backdrop of growing anger countrywide over what Iraqi authorities, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, describe as attempts to sow sectarian strife.On May 19, Maliki called on Iraqis to hold joint prayers every Friday in a bid ...
Anti-regime protests have been held in several cities across Bahrain as the Al Khalifa regime continues its crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in the country.Thousands of demonstrators held a sit-in in the village of Muqsha, west of the capital Manama, on Friday to demand the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.“Get out, Khalifa!” they chanted, referring to the premier who has been holding the post for the past ...
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic School plans to ally itself with the country's Salafists to deter promotion of Shiite doctrine in the Arab world.According to Al-Watan News, in a meeting held yesterday, October 9, a number of al-Azhar Islamic School’s scholars and officials investigated the potential of extremist Salafists in preventing the dissemination of Shiite doctrine in Arab countries particularly Egypt.Al-Azhar officials expressed concern ...
In an exclusive interview with us, Abdul Alim Musa, Imam of Washington's Masjid al-Islam, noted that the Zionist forces inside the United States and abroad “are heading up a massive anti-Islamic propaganda campaign.”
“It’s launched in every arena - the books, the magazines, the television, the radio - and now, billboards and placards in subways and what have you,” he added.
“Every bit of propaganda they have launched against us ...
