By AFP – Dec 08,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A general view shows Al Qosour neighbourhood of Homs, Syria, on Tuesday. Humanitarian aid has reached a besieged rebel-held area in the central Syrian city of Homs, part of a local ceasefire deal that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters, […]
Source: The New York Times What started as a popular uprising againstthe Syrian government four years ago has becomea proto-world war with nearly a dozen countriesembroiled in two overlapping conflicts. 1. […]
Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES. The pictures have been added by the Muslim Times By John V. Whitbeck, who is an international lawyer who writes frequently on the Middle East […]
656. Commandment – regarding inheritance [4:34] And to every one We have appointed heirs to what the parents and the relations leave, and also those with whom your oaths have ratified a contract. So give them their portion. Surely, Allah watches over all things. 657. Commandment – Both men and women have share […]
663. Commandment – when other relations and orphans and the poor are present at the division of heritage, give them something therefrom and speak to them words of kindness [4:9] And when other relations and orphans and the poor are present at the division of heritage, give them something therefrom and speak to them words of kindness.
664. Commandment – Division of inheritance after the payment of any bequests he may have bequeathed or of debt [4:12] Allah commands you concerning your children: a male shall have as much as the share of two females; but if there be females only, numbering more than two, then they shall have two-thirds of […]
666. Commandment – Whoso apprehends from a testator a partiality or a wrong, and makes peace between them (the parties affected), it shall be no sin for him [2:183] But whoso apprehends from a testator a partiality or a wrong, and makes peace between them (the parties affected), it shall be […]
By AFP – Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during confrontations with Israeli forces along the border with Israel in the eastern suburbs of […]
Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Although everybody approves of the necessity to have an efficient strategy to fight Daesh, the shape and objectives of this strategy are still profoundly paradoxical. Since the first day the international coalition launched the strikes against Daesh, a state of confusion emerged, […]
Tribune: BERLIN: German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday said Saudi Arabia must stop financing fundamentalist mosques abroad which are accused of breeding extremism. “From Saudi Arabia, Wahhabi mosques are financed throughout the world,” said Gabriel. #SueMeSaudi goes viral after Saudi govt threatens to sue anyone comparing them to ISIS “In […]
Dec 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI A United Syrian Republic, rather than a Syrian Arab Republic, will be the new name of post-war Syria. Ethnic lines are part of the new master plan being implemented by the 44 anti-Assad militias operating on the Syrian territory. The Kurds, 16 per cent […]
Sixty-five opposition figures are supposed to achieve Arab unity in time for international talks Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 5 December 2015 The city of Riyadh is set to host 65 “opposition figures” at a summit to discuss Arab unity later this month Getty Everyone opposing President Bashar al-Assad of […]
From: Batool Alsaeed, Mafraq, Jordan To: The Country Director, Humanity First, Jordan In the name of Allah My name is Batool Alsaeed and I am from Syria. I came with my family to Jordan because of the war. We are from Homs. […]
Source: Aljazeera The governor of Yemen’s port city of Aden, Major-General Jaafar Mohammed Saad, has been killed in an attack along with six of his bodyguards. Unknown assailants reportedly fired a […]
665. Commandment – He who alters it after he has heard it, the sin thereof shall surely lie on those who alter it [2:182] And he who alters it after he has heard it, the sin thereof shall surely lie on those who alter it. Surely, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
Source: BBC An artist sentenced to death for apostasy. Three young Shia Muslims – arrested when they were minors – faced with beheading. And reports in the Saudi press of […]
Aljazeera: Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes. Although the kingdom hasn’t officially confirmed the reports, the evidence is building. Okas, the first outlet to publish the report, has close ties to the Saudi […]
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]
ZUHAIR AL-HARTHY Published — Thursday 3 December 2015 In her book titled “Islam: A Short History,” renowned British author and commentator Karen Armstrong writes, “Islam is the most misunderstood religion…The Qur’an gave Muslims a historical mission. Their chief duty was to create a just community in which all members, even […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]