Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
Italian investigators reveal new details about the dirty business of people smuggling – including discussions on where best to invest their money 9 23 0 0 32 Email Mohammed Ali Malek (C, rear), one of two survivors of Saturday’s migrant boat disaster, later arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, is […]
by Lakhdar Brahimi Summary Over the past four years, Syria has been the scene of terrible suffering and savagery. The war has claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated Syria’s social and economic fabric. The international community has been unable – and, to some extent, unwilling – to stop the […]
444. Commandment – O ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace [33:57] Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. O ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace. [37:80] ‘Peace be upon Noah among the […]
443. Commandment – Verily you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model [33:22] Verily you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. [49:8] And know that among you is the Messenger of […]
HELD CAPTIVE Swiss jihadist frees wife and child By swissinfo.ch and agencies APR 19, 2015 – 15:30 The mother and child were let go near the border town of Reyhanli (Keystone) A woman and her young child, held in Syria for several months by her Swiss-Turkish husband, have been released. […]
Khalil Hanoun, left, with Abdul Salam Tasluq MADINAH: YUSUF MOHAMMED Published — Monday 20 April 2015 Last update 20 April 2015 12:37 am As convoys of pilgrims flock from around the world to perform Umrah in Madinah, the journey for some can be more difficult than others. Palestinian pilgrim, Khalil […]
Agence France Presse LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign ministers will be joined Monday by their interior minister colleagues to discuss the latest migrant disaster in the Mediterranean which may have cost 700 lives, an EU official said. The foreign ministers were originally due to meet on their own but the agenda had […]
Summary Cairo is to be replaced as Egypt’s capital by a vast, hypermodern city situated in the eastern desert at the halfway point to the Suez Canal hub – a military-led mega-development featuring an enlarged, two-channel canal that began last year. Work on the new capital will start at the […]
442. Commandment – Some more commandments about Prophet’s wives [33:29] O Prophet! say to thy wives, ‘If you desire the life of this world and its adornment, come then, I will provide for you and send you away in a handsome manner. [33:30] ‘But if you desire Allah and His Messenger and […]
One-a-Day Commandment of the Holy Quran – 441. Commandment – There is no blame on them (Prophet’s wives) in this respect (Pardah) Amjad Tariq Sydney 441. Commandment – There is no blame on them (Prophet’s wives) in this respect (Pardah) [33:56] There is no blame on them in this respect with regard to their fathers […]
440. Commandment – And when you ask them (the wives of the Prophet) for anything, ask them from behind a curtain. That is purer for your hearts and their hearts [33:54] O ye who believe! enter not the houses of the Prophet unless leave is granted to you for a meal […]
DEANA NASSAR The Qur’an says: “We have sent down the Book to you which manifests the truth about all things and as guidance and mercy and good news for […]
A.S. HALAWANI Published — Friday 17 April 2015 When you pass away, do not worry about your dead body as fellow Muslims will take good care of it; they will take off your clothes, wash your body up, and wrap it in a clean white shroud; they will take […]
The Daily Star The release of a report this week on conditions in the Middle East is unlikely to gain much attention from global media outlets – probably because the words “extremism” or “ISIS” aren’t in the title. But the announcement by UNICEF and UNESCO that 21 million children in […]
By Islah Bakhat APR 17, 2015 – 11:00 1959: A year after the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown, Samir (still a little boy, the second from the right) and his family picnic outside Baghdad with some friends. An image from a revolutionary era (Dschoint Ventschr) In Iraqi Odyssey, film director Samir […]
439. Commandment – And it behoves you not to cause inconvenience to the Messenger of Allah, nor that you should ever marry his wives after him [33:54] O ye who believe! enter not the houses of the Prophet unless leave is granted to you for a meal without waiting for its appointed time. […]
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It was a mild, crystal clear desert evening on November 15, 2004, when Jennifer Longdon and her fiance, David Rueckert, closed up his martial-arts studio and headed out to grab […]
Fareed Zakaria| The Daily Star At the heart of the concerns surrounding the deal with Iran is a simple question: Is Iran rational? The answer for many critics of the deal is self-evident. The Iranians are “apocalyptic,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often said, warning that you can’t “bet […]
| The Daily Star Joschka Fischer The “new” Middle East is now on daily display. Unlike the old Middle East, whose fate was determined by the dominant Western powers (the United Kingdom and France after World War I, and the United States from the 1940s until recently), the new one […]