Returning Haj pilgrims wish they stayed longer
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Thursday 23 October 2014 Several Haj pilgrims who have just concluded their lifetime spiritual experience appeared sad while leaving the holy land and many of […]
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
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.
Belated death of a British illusion – recognition of a Palestinian state
NEIL BERRY ARABNEWS.COM Published — Thursday 23 October 2014 The “recognition” of a Palestinian state by the UK Parliament on Oct .13 has been scorned as gesture politics. The criticism is not without substance, but this was a gesture with no small symbolic significance, underlining as it did the moral […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 271. Commandment to turn not thy cheek away from men in pride nor walk in the earth haughtily.
271. Commandment to turn not thy cheek away from men in pride nor walk in the earth haughtily [31:19] ‘And turn not thy cheek away from men in pride nor walk in the earth haughtily; Surely, Allah loves not any arrogant boaster.
Qur’an lesson for today: 272. Commandment to be moderate in laugh and weep
272. Commandment to be moderate in laugh and weep [9:82] They must laugh little and weep much as a reward for that which they used to earn.
Jordan: Blankets for Syrian refugees from HUMANITY FIRST reach Mafraq, near the Syrian border.
By the grace of Allah HUMANITY FIRST’s consignment of blankets for Syrian refugees reached Jordan just in time for the coming cold season. Distribution will start in the next few […]
U.S. airdrops ! did ISIS get some?
Source: CNN Turkish-Syrian border (CNN) — In the besieged Syrian city of Kobani, precious medicine rains from the sky. Antibiotics, anesthetics, sanitary supplies and bandages — all desperately needed to treat local fighters and civilians wounded during the siege of this crucial town near the Turkish border. U.S. airplanes are […]
GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS : WASHINGTON POST
THIS post and National Geography and several news releases including a FEMA effort to solicit cost and delivery of dried food from its supplies in unprecedented manner are clear alarms of world food crisis. Keep in mind: 1. The huge amount of pig farming and pork consumption. 2. Huge unnecessary […]
Qatar and Saudi Arabia ‘have ignited time bomb by funding global spread of radical Islam’
Source: LUBP LINK General Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were primarily responsible for the rise of the extremist Islam that inspires Isil terrorists. The two Gulf states have spent billions of dollars on promoting […]
Large Crowd Protests NYC Terrorism Opera
Source: The daily Beast. A famed opera that depicts the real-life murder of an American Jew by Palestinians has enraged hundreds Manhattan’s West Side. You know an opera is controversial when the protesters outside start comparing the opera house to a Nazi death camp. That at least was the sentiment […]
Condemned Christian woman to take blasphemy case to top Pakistani court
Source: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan plans to take her case to the country’s highest court after a high court last week rejected her appeal, her attorney says. Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was accused of […]
Tunisia ‘Strongly’ Condemns Israeli Incursion in Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound – FM
Tunis — Tunisia “strongly” condemns the incursion of the Israeli forces in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the ban imposed on prayers to enter the compound and the brutalization of several of them. The systematic policy of aggression perpetrated by Israel against the sacred shrines of Islam in Al-Quds is a […]
Business schools: Swiss Executive MBA programmes rise in rankings
Four Swiss business schools have appeared in the Financial Times’ ranking of 100 executive MBA (EMBA) programmes, with IMD in Lausanne performing best, climbing four places since last year to 15th. The list, published on Monday, compares programmes for working senior executives and is topped for the first time by […]
Qur’an lesson for today: Commandment to shun all that which is vain
268. Commandment to shun all that which is vain [23:4] And who shun all that which is vain, [25:73] And those who bear not false witness, and when they pass by anything vain, they pass on with dignity; [28:56] And when they hear vain talk, they turn away from it […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 269. Commandment to let not one people deride another people
269. Commandment to let not one people deride another people [49:12] O ye who believe! let not one people deride another people, who may be better than they, nor let women deride other women, who may be better than they. And defame not your own people, nor call one another […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 270. Commandment not to be an arrogant as Allah loves not any arrogant boaster
270. Commandment not to be an arrogant as Allah loves not any arrogant boaster [46:21] And on the day when those who disbelieve will be brought before the Fire, it will be said to them, ‘You exhausted your good things in the life of the world, and you fully enjoyed […]
Mauritius – Model of democracy?
Port Louis, Mauritius — The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true […]
Cameron is warned ‘no possibility’ of UK reducing immigration and that bid to bring in quota on migrant workers would be illegal
Andy McSmith Sunday 19 October 2014 David Cameron’s plan to restrict the amount of time that EU migrants can spend working in Britain will never be accepted by the other EU governments, Europe’s highest ranking official, Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned. He insisted that the right of EU citizens to […]
Ebola: There is nothing to fear but panic itself
Summary by David Ignatius, Daily Star, Lebanon You could feel a shiver of panic coursing through the American body politic this week as the country struggled with a metastatic set of crises: the spread of the Ebola virus, the surge of ISIS terrorists, and the buckling global economy. President Barack […]
Pakistan Charity Boss Abdul Sattar Edhi ‘heartbroken’ after robbery
One of Pakistan’s top charity leaders has told the BBC he is heartbroken after being robbed at gunpoint. Abdul Sattar Edhi, 86, was asleep when a gang of armed men […]