Ahlul Bayt News Agency - In Bahrain, political dissidence can be punishable by death. The Government of Bahrain employ the threat of capital punishment as a means of political intimidation. Between 2011 and 2014, Bahraini courts handed down 11 death sentences; in the last six months, they have handed down at least four more. Disproportionately, these sentences have been based on false confessions, extracted from detainees under severe ...
A senior security source in Diyala province announced on Tuesday, that an ISIS child that bears Asian features executed an old teacher northern of Salahuddin. The source said: “ISIS organization, which has been stationed in the district of Sharqat northern Salahuddin, brought an old teacher detained for several weeks, because of his refusal to the ideas of the organization, into one of the main streets; the so-called Sharia Court read the ...
The new issue of "Ganjineye Majma" magazine, cultural, information magazine of Ahlulbayt World Assembly released.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The new issue of "Ganjineh Majma" magazine, cultural, information magazine of Ahlulbayt World Assembly released. Issues 93, 94 and 95 of "Ganjineh Majma" magazine, which belongs to the winter of 2019, is published in 112 pages, 3 special issue and 6 sections. The "Special Issue on the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday approved a summary prohibiting the English translation of Islamic terms, which means that the word “masjid” cannot be substituted with the English word “mosque”.Sacred Arabic names and words like Allah, masjid, sala’at and Rasool are now forbidden to be translated in English as God, mosque, prayer and prophet, respectively, as per the summary ...
Jameel Syed is aiming to become the first person to perform the Adhan in all 50 U.S. states, using his voice across America to help educate the public about Islam, praise its Prophet (peace be upon him), and also honor the memory of his father.
"Islamophobia is real, there is no question about it," Syed told as he traveled from Mississippi to Florida.
After reciting the call to prayer at each mosque in 50 states, Syed will deliver the last ...
An American lady, "Elina Emily", converted to Shia Islam in Imam Reza (AS) holy Shrine on Thursday, and then adopted Zaynab as her new name.
"4 years ago I began researching on Islam. Since then I've found that Islam is a comprehensive religion," Emily said.
Expressing her hope to show the truth of Islam to her family and friends, she added: "It's my desire that one day my family and friends, by finding more about Islam, became unsure about ...
Hamas Movement along with specialists in the legal and security affairs affirmed that Egyptian minister of interior Majdi Abdulghaffar has no right to accuse Hamas of killing the Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat. In a dialogue session on the Egyptian accusation -political and security reading-, which was organized by the governmental media office in Gaza on Wednesday, the specialists pointed out that the Egyptian statements serve the ...
At least seven people have been killed in clashes between the supporters of rival political parties in Nigeria’s eastern Taraba State after an election dispute. According to the reports, clashes broke out in the town of Wukari on Sunday after a court invalidated the election win of the state governor and declared another politician as the new leader. “Seven people were killed and 15 injured in fighting between ...
A Tunisian scholar emphasized that although Wilayat al-Faqih is an old theory, but Imam Khomeini renewed it in order to eliminate the gap between Sunnis and Shi’ites.” Ahmad al-Abyadh, a Tunisian Sunni scholar and professor of social psychology at the University of Tunis, stated that the theory of Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurisprudent) was the most important issue explained by Imam Ruhollah Khomeini. “Although, ...
Imam Reza (a.s.) has informed, "Those who cannot come for our Ziarat must visit our virtuous followers. They shall get the reward of performing our Ziarat. And those who wish to do Sileh Rahmi towards us but are unable to do so must do Sileh Rahmi towards our pious devotees. They shall be given the reward of our Sileh Rahmi."
Respect and honour for the believing brother is the same as respect and honour for the spiritual father (Imam [a.s.]). ...
Permanent Marriage
IN ISLAM the word most commonly employed for marriage is nikah, which means literally 'sexual intercourse'. As a legal term it denotes the situation resulting from a particular contract, entered into by a man and a woman, by which sexual intercourse between them becomes legitimate in the eyes of God and society. The only other mode of legitimizing this sexual relationship is by a man's purchasing a female slave, but ...
Stories are a useful and important method of encouraging good qualities and characteristics, and discouraging bad ones, such as the rights of friends, faith, etc. The Noble Qur'an uses this method to do the same as mentioned in Surat Yusuf, Verse 111:
لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِّأُولِي الأَلْبَابِ
"There is certainly a moral in their accounts for those who possess ...
EXCHANGE OF DAUGHTERS
During the pre-Islamic days there was a form of marriage in vogue in Arabia under the name of Shighar marriage, (exchange of daughters) which was a manifestation of the absolute authority of the fathers over their daughters. A man would give his daughter in marriage to another man in consideration of the latter giving his daughter in marriage to him. In such a form of marriage neither of the wives would get a dower. ...
After we have dealt with the Justice of Allah we now switch over to social justice. Since the subject of social justice has a wider range we confine ourselves to quoting relevant matters from the Holy Qur'an, the traditions, and Nahjul Balaghah, and have at the same time given explanation of every verse and tradition because these will help project our view-point on relevant matters and their knowledge will be beneficial to the people in ...
No human being is burdened with trouble and difficulties they cannot bear. The Qur'an teaches ''(God) will never place a burden on a soul that it cannot bear''. This shows that the human being can bear many unthinkable burdens that one initially feels that they cannot bear. How many times in your life, you felt you cannot take it anymore, but you lived through it? How many humans go through great difficulties in life but live through it?
After ...
The Prophet of Islam: The Perfect Exemplar
We all know that one of the most important factors of Islam’s advancement was the perfect conduct of tile Prophet (S.A.W.). This fact is stated in the Holy Qur`an where Allah, the Almighty, says: “And had you been rough, hard hearted they would certainly have dispersed from around you.” Qur`an 3:158 The Prophet of Allah (S.A.W.) treated all people equally. His deep and indescribable love for ...
by Khalid Farooq Akbar
Is birth control permissible in Islam?
A Muslim has three sources of knowledge to obtain answers to the questions pertaining to various aspects of human life. These sources are:
1. The Holy Qur'an;
2. Sayings (hadith) and acts (Sunnah) of the Holy Prophet (pbuh); and
3. The views of the leaders of juristic schools qualified to interpret the teachings of Islam.
1. The Holy Qur'an
No Qur'anic text forbids ...
Deputy of Astan Quds Razavi Oppressed Relief Foundation reported the endowment of the biggest retinue (transient pilgrims welfare camps known as Mawkab) in the Najaf-Karbala Road in the column 285 titled as the retinue of Imam Reza (A.S.) to Astan Quds Razavi. The retinue has been designated on an area of 40,000 sq.m.In the session of deputies and consultants of Astan Quds Razavi, Mostafa Khaksar Qahrudi reiterated, “The endowed land has ...
* Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity. The liar will never be believed even if he tells truths. His testimonies, too, are not admitted, and his promises are not trusted. One of the manners of the liars is that they forget their previo us untruths and invent new ones totally contrary to the previous. A liar often invents a number of contrasted untruths as a support of a previous one.
* Untruth causes mutual mistrust and creates ...
In recent times, the American Philosophical Association has been exposed in a serious way to the issue of pluralism in philosophy curriculums in the departments of philosophy of American universities and colleges. This conversation brings to the fore the fact that what is at issue in the prospect of pluralizing American philosophy departments is not merely the matter of deciding the discipline's boundaries of intellectual formation relative to ...
