Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, believes India is safe for the Muslim community, and the degree of security can be a ray of hope for the persecuted Shia community in Pakistan.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, believes India is safe for the Muslim community, and the degree of security can be a ray of hope for the persecuted Shia community in Pakistan.
"Pakistan is a Muslim country but Shias are not safe there. But Muslims are ...
A meeting between Russian Muslim and other public figures and the general secretary of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) sheikh Ali Karadagi took place in Istanbul within the framework of the 4th session of the general assembly of the organization.
According to the news portal IslamNews, the agenda included the establishment of a fiqh academy in Russian Federation. This initiative has been worked over for several years, since ...
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) condemns the violations carried out by the Bahraini regime against those calling for democracy and the right to self-determination. Among these violations is their denial of adequate healthcare to activists. Riot police arrested Hassan Mahdi al-Eskafi (27 years old) on Saturday 14 February 2015 in his home district of al-Bilad al-Qadim which, like other villages and towns in Bahrain, was the site of ...
Zayn al-Din al-Juba’i al’Amili (1506–1558) was the Second Martyr, and the author of the first Sharh ofShahid Awwal‘s Al-Lum’ah ad-Dimashqiya(The Damascene Glitter) titled as Ar-Rawda al-Bahiyah fi Sharh al-Lum’ah ad-Dimashqiya (الروضة البهيّة في شرح اللمعة الدمشقيّة ) (The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter).He was one of the greatest shi’a scholars. He ...
if we are to act according the narrations and the verses of the holy Quran, we need to get rid of two things in ourselves: one is arrogance and the second one is stubbornness. Because we have arrogance, we are not going to have the morality of Allah Almighty. Arrogance is the context of Eblis (the Satan), so if we are arrogant, we would follow the Satan because we have taken it from the Satan. When I am arrogant, I won't forgive; because I am ...
The Leader on Thursday called on clerics to thwart “the American and Zionist plot to create divisions” and avoid touching on divisive issues among Shia and Sunni Muslims. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with the newly-elected members of the Assembly of Experts on Thursday set the priorities for the government officials in the new year. The government officials should pay attention to three priorities which ...
Bahrain's main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has called on the Manama regime to release 300 student prisoners. Al-Wefaq's call comes ahead of the new school year. Meanwhile, Bahraini demonstrators took to the streets in solidarity with jailed students in the region of Mahazzah outside the capital, Manama. According to rights activists in Bahrain, there are thousands of people, including students, behind bars across ...
Over half a million Iranians have signed up for the Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraq, according to Said Owhadi, head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, ISNA news agency reported October 28.
In 2015 Arbaeen gathered some 20 million people in the Iraqi city to be named the biggest human gathering in history. Looking beyond the religious content, it is going to turn into a major economic feature for Iraq and the neighboring Iran ...
Leader of the Islamic Republic has criticized silence of western powers claimants of human rights on Mina incident. Ayatollah Khamenei addressed a meeting of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization officials and staff on Monday, where he specifically demanded more dynamism in part of the diplomacy machinery of the country in addressing Mina incident ‘in assertive manner as possible.’ “The bitter event of Mina incident was a test for ...
According to Pew Research Institute, A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.6 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion. Shias are around 20% of the world muslim population. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. Shia Numbers are in the range of 320 Millions ...
All halal food products sold in Dubai will soon have to carry a smart logo that will help consumers verify the authenticity of their halal accreditation using a mobile application.Dubai Municipality on Monday signed an agreement with SICPA, a Swiss company that will provide the smart logo to companies producing halal food products and a mobile app for consumers to verify the halal certification of these products.Hussain Nasser Lootah, ...
Alkhoei Foundation, a mainstream Shiaorganisation based in London issued a statement on Friday following Nice terror attack and said ” These acts of terror, which have become global, continue to stir emotions of disgust and anger at the warped sense of morality of these terrorists, which seriously falls short of the common values shared by all humans, religions and beliefs in all societies.”
According to Shafaqna, the ...
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 ...
After Tuesday's election, Muslims are to make up half of the city council members in Hamtramck, a percentage believed by advocates to be the highest Muslim representation in a municipality in the United States.
Location: The state of MichiganCoordinates: 42°23′52″N 83°3′26″W
Two Muslim candidates, Kazi Miah and Mohammed Hassan, were elected Tuesday to the six-member ...
Five assailants wearing explosive belts have attempted an attack on a police station in the Iraqi city of Samarra. Presstv reported that according to local press reports, the assailants approached the Mutawakil police station in Samarra's al-Sekek neighborhood on Monday but were identified before they were able to detonate their explosives of their own accord.There were conflicting reports on the circumstances around the attempted attack. ...
'This agreement will be reached. In my opinion, we have already crossed the line before which we could have doubted that,' he said quoted by Interfax news agency on Friday.Speaking with reporters on the sidelines of the seventh BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) academic forum, he added, 'I believe there is a high degree of certainty today that this agreement is not only possible, but it will be reached.''I would not forecast ...
The magnificent and marvellous buildings and structures in the holy shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.) situated in the holy city of Mashhad,Iran, comprises one of the oldest and most beautiful religious and historical monuments in the world.The visitors,travellers and historians have called this religious complex as "The Glory of the Islamic World".The grand complex of the holy shrine is round in structure which includes six courtyards (Sahn), twenty - ...
This is according to Hojat-ol-Islam Najm-ol-Hasanayn, principal of Anwar-ol-Huda Ja’fariya School in Sitpur region of Punjab Province in Pakistan.
Speaking at a forum held on Arbaeen, Thursday, January 3, the scholar stated that the lessons of Ashura include promoting virtue and preventing vice, defending Islam and Jihad or fighting against tyranny and oppression.
Stressing that everyone should learn lessons from the messages of ...
