Umrah: this is the lesser pilgrimage which is optional and can be performed at any time. Hajj: The pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which every adult Muslim who is physically and financially able must make at least once in his or her lifetime. About 2,000,000 persons perform the hajj each year, and the rite serves as a unifying force in Islam by bringing followers of diverse backgrounds together in religious celebration. ...
Promoting cohesion in the British society, a group of Muslim women in England’s Nottingham organized its annual family fun day on Saturday, inviting locals to come together, according to news agencies. The event was organized by the Radford-based Muslim Women's Organization at Radford recreation ground. The family event featured face-painting, eyebrow-threading, Mehndi, which is henna tattoos, Asian food including biryani, kebabs, pakora ...
Complaining UnnecessarilyThe problems of life are many. There is not anyone who is completely happy with his situation. But some people are more patient with their hardships than others, they try to record them in their memories and do not mention them except when there is reason or revealing them.On the other hand, there are people who are so weak that they cannot keep any problem to themselves.They are so used to making complaints that upon ...
- The last weekend’s coordinated massacre by the Nigerian Army of hundreds of Shiite Muslim faithful of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in Zaria, Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria; is not only a State murder and terrorism; but also signals the return of Idi Amin era in the Nigerian Army under the Commander-in-Chief of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Idi Amin era in the present Nigerian Army context includes: (a) blood thirst of the ...
Having accepted that from the Islamic point of view, faith in God is ingrained in human nature, and that it is only the parents and the society that corrupts the soul and divert it from the Right Path, the question comes: Can Islam be imposed forcefully on non-Muslims? Or we may even ask: Is the minor jihad a means of imposing the faith of Islam on non-Muslims?I do not intend to get into the issue of the minor jihad; but, briefly stated, the ...
The ideology of the Iranian Revolution can be summarized as populist, nationalist and most of all Shi"a Islamic.
The Iranian revolution expresses itself in the language of Islam, that is to say, as a religious movement with a religious leadership, a religiously formulated critique of the old order, and religiously expressed plans for the new. Muslim revolutionaries look to the birth of Islam as their model, and see themselves as engaged in a ...
By Sahar Kassaimah
In Sura’tul Al Nahl (Sura 16) in the Qur’an, Allah (SWT) says, “And Allah has made for you in your homes an abode.” What does the home represent to the Muslim family? Is it a place where family members can relate to one another and where they sincerely enjoy being together; where they have a sense of shared beliefs and values, and their behavior is based on Islamic principles? Is it a place where family members ...
Sulaiman: The ways of you Shias are strange. As far as the companions are concerned you exercise utmost caution with regard to their reliability. On the other hand we see that you support a Kafir, defend his faith and praise him. Ja'far: As far as the first part of your question is concerned, there is nothing wrong with it. The history is before you to study and derive your conclusions. So that you are free of blame. But tell me who is that ...
The tenth Greater sin is adultery (zina) according to the traditions of Masoomen (a.s.). Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.), Imam Musa al-Kazim (a.s.), Imam Ali Reza (a.s.) and Imam Muhammad Taqi (a.s.) have all described it as a Greater Sin.
In the following ayat the Almighty says: "And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Shaban Mukhari, son of Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid is all set to tie knot with a Hindu woman from Ghaziabad. The two have been in a relationship for couple of years, according to media reports.According to a report in Patrika, Senior Bukhari, who was earlier against this marriage agreed to this only after the soon-to-be-bride gave her consent to follow Islam.Maulana was quoted saying in Jagran that the girl ...
Unconfirmed reports have announced that Hujjat al-Islam Ja’far Ibrahimi, an Iraqi Shi’ite cleric living in Kuwait, as been deported at at the request of a number of political activists in the Persian Gulf monarchy. According to the news website 'alkhaleejaffairs', a number of extremist Kuwaiti activists and members of the country’s parliament announced the news of Hujjat al-Islam Ibrahimi’s expulsion, claiming that ...
"It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth, and He sends down water from the sky and with it He brings forth crops for your sustenance. And He disposed the ships so that they may sail at sea by His command, and He disposed the rivers for you. He disposed the sun and the moon for you, constant [in their courses], and He disposed the night and the day, and He gave you all that you had asked Him. If you enumerate Allah's blessings, you ...
One of those important books on the qualities of a Islamic Family, is the nobel writing of Professor Hossein Ansarian “ The Islamic structure of Family”. The aforesaid book can be refered to as the most comprehensive of Islamic books in this regard. The issue to be followed is adopted from this book.
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Although childbirth is a very pleasant experience for the mother, the father and the relatives, it is very painful for the ...
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Certain animals such as ants, bees, termites and several species of monkeys are social, that is they live in communities. The social life of some of these gregarious animals is characterized by some very significant and interesting systems.
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Certain animals such as ants, bees, termites and several species of monkeys are social, that is they live in communities. The social life of some of these gregarious animals ...
In the Name of Allah, most Compassionate, most MercifulI was raised in a moderately Christian home in Colorado. Religion was never much of an issue in my house. My father was raised as a Mormon, my mother as a Protestant. I can remember my parents dropping my brother off at Sunday School, but instead of going to church while we were in religious classes, they would go home.As I grew to adolescence, I became curious about God, wondering whether ...
Here is a clear Hadees which proves that the AhlulBait (A.S) didnt prostrate to Prophet Adam (A.S) when Allah (S.W.T) ordered the angels to prostrate to Adam (A.S).حدّثنا عبد الله بن محمد بن عبد الوهاب عن أبي الحسن محمد بن أحمد القواريري، عن أبي الحسين محمد بن عمّار، عن إسماعيل بن توبة، عن زياد بن عبد الله البكائي، عن ...
The person who arranges his/her programs in various walks and phases of life on the basis of a carefully designed order is most likely to achieve the desired level of success in the fulfilment of the goals. No doubt, through orderliness, discipline and good planning, each goal becomes easy to achieve.
In verse 33 of Chapter 21 of the Holy Qur'an we read about the creation of the night and the day. "It is He who created the night and the day, ...
The Yemeni forces targeted and hit Al Dhaba military base in Najran, killing and injuring a number of the Saudi servicemen, according to the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen television network. They also pounded other Saudi positions in Najran with Katyusha rockets and mortar shells. In another operation, the Yemeni army and Popular Committees managed to recapture four military bases from mercenaries of the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh ...
