USE NEW MEDIA: Sheikh Saleh Bin-Humaid delivers the Friday sermon at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (SPA) MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 21 February 2015 Last update 21 February 2015 12:06 am Imam and Khateeb at the Grand Mosque Sheikh Saleh Bin-Humaid called on the believers to employ the […]
Petra-born archaeologist wants to restore spirituality, simplicity of new world wonder by Saeb Rawashdeh | Feb 19, 2015 | 16:31 A sketch of a projected eco-village that archaeologist Shaaban Nyazi plans to establish in Petra, 235km south of Amman (Photo courtesy of Shaaban Nyazi) AMMAN — In a bid to […]
385. Commandment – And they (the women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in equity [2:229] And the divorced women shall wait concerning themselves for three courses; and it is not lawful for them that they conceal what Allah has created in their wombs, if they believe in […]
BY HAYA MUHAMMAD EID Source: OnIslam.net Published — Friday 20 February 2015 The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said, “Who from my Ummah (universal nation) would learn five qualities to act upon or teach to those who would (in turn) act upon them?” Abu Hurairah said, “I, O […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 20 February 2015 ARABNEWS.COM Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has instructed authorities to open the newly expanded areas of the Grand Mosque in Makkah for use by the growing number of Umrah pilgrims and worshippers. “King Salman has approved the […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star If I read one more article or hear one more speech by a Western politician telling us that we are experiencing a war within Islam between radicals and moderates, or a battle for the future and soul of Islam, I will seek medical options […]
Michael Young| The Daily Star As prospects for the emergence of new sectarian and ethnic entities rise in the Middle East to replace illegitimate, authoritarian states, it is necessary to ask what will happen to Lebanon, the only Arab state that has sought to build its political system around a […]
384. Commandment – Wife is a source of peace of mind [7:190] He it is Who has created you from a single soul, and made there from its mate, that he might find comfort in her. And when he knows her, she bears a light burden, and goes about with it. […]
AP – JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Egypt is making an ambitious bid to place itself at the centre of the fight against extremism across the Middle East. Beyond fighting militants in its own Sinai Peninsula, it is trying to organise an international coalition against the Daesh terror group in Libya […]
ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam February 18, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and […]
AFP , Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 Ahram Online Pope Francis walks as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican February 18, 2015. (Photo: Reuters) Security at the Vatican and across Italy has been stepped up because of a perceived heightened risk of […]
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Washington Post: On Feb. 18, the White House plans to host a “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.” The Obama administration should use this summit to ask why, so many years after Sept. 11, 2001, policymakers have failed to effectively manage the growing global trend toward violent extremism. Theexisting strategies, overly […]
JERUSALEM: Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel’s Mediterranean coast — about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country’s antiquities […]
Just when Washington and Nato feared they were going to be bombing Isis on their own, the self-styled “Islamic State” has single-handedly created a new Arab military alliance to bomb the West’s enemies. By its seaside slaughter of 21 Egyptian Christians, Isis has brought ex-Field Marshal President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi […]
381. Commandment – Those among you who put away their wives by calling them mothers — they do not become their mothers; their mothers are only those who gave them birth; and they certainly utter words that are manifestly evil and untrue [58:3] Those among you who put away their […]
382. Commandment – As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go back on what they have said, the penalty for it is the freeing of a slave before they touch each other …. [58:4] As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go […]
SANAA: A few worried families are all that remain of Yemen’s ancient Jewish community, and they too may soon flee after a Shiite militia seized power in the strife-torn country […]
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE ARABNEWS.COM The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a package of urgent measures to prevent the rapid spread of terrorism, which has hit a number of OIC […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT An important academic investigation to be published in a few days prompts me to ask important questions. Could we save the lives of our people in Isis hands if we talked to the “Islamic State” it claims to represent? Jordan publicly declared its willingness – […]