354. Commandment – To spend your money on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives [2:178] It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is […]
353. Commandment – show kindness to kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and to the neighbour that is a kinsman and the neighbour that is a stranger, and the companion by your side, and the wayfarer [4:37] And worship Allah and associate naught with Him, and show kindness to parents, and to kindred, and orphans, and […]
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Iyad bin Amin Madani speaks at a news conference in Najaf, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday. (Reuters) AGENCIES Published — Thursday 15 January 2015 RIYADH/CAIRO: Iyad Madani, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has denounced the publication of sacrilegious cartoons […]
On Thursday, a Saudi blogger will receive his second flogging for ‘insulting Islam’. Robert Fisk looks at a barbaric regime with a brutal record ROBERT FISK Wednesday 14 January 2015 […]
Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen Religious leader forbids building of anti-Islamic idols that might resemble human beings, after winter storm in north of country Reuters in Dubai The Guardian, Monday 12 January 2015 17.18 GMT The building of snowmen has been forbidden by a top Saudi cleric. Photograph: Vadim […]
Source: thediplomat.com The attacks should prompt Muslim-majority states to examine their own records. The two major Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, have joined the chorus of condemnations against […]
Source: bbc.co.uk The overwhelming tone of reaction from Middle Eastern press is one of shock and categorical condemnation of the 7 January attack on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo and the killing of 12 people. But within the overall rejection that dominated the papers’ front pages, a small […]
Source: The Guardian.com Cartoons depicting Muhammad are unthinkable in Muslim countries. But there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis. Our writers in Egypt, Turkey, […]
Tim Willcox, a BBC reporter, sparked anger during his coverage of a rally yesterday in Paris when he told the daughter of a Holocaust survivor that “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well,” Daily Mail reported. The BBC journalist has since faced several calls to resign after he made […]
Source: Gulfnews.com Dubai: Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, condemned Wednesday’s shooting attack on a French satirical magazine known for its send-ups of radical Islam. “The kingdom therefore strongly condemns and denounces this cowardly terrorist act that is rejected by true Islamic religion as well as the rest of the […]
351. Commandment – Love each other like a kinship [42:24] This it is whereof Allah gives the glad tidings to His servants who believe and do good works. Say: ‘I ask of you no reward for it, except that I am inviting you to God because of love of kinship.’ And whoso […]
350. Commandment – kindness to blood relations [33:7] The Prophet is nearer to the believers than their own selves, and his wives are as mothers to them. And blood relations are nearer to one another, according to the Book of Allah, than the rest of the believers from among the Helpers as well as the Emigrants, […]
When are we going to give up our infantile “terrorist” lists? The IRA were “terrorists”. So was the Irgun. So was EOKA. So was the Mau-Mau. And their leaders – every bloody one of them – met Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Think Begin, Makarios, Kenyatta. How long, […]
Muslims attend the Friday prayer at the Sehitlik mosque in Berlin, Germany, Friday. Believers in the mosque commemorated the victims of the terror attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ALI KHALIL | AFP Published — Friday 9 January 2015 Last update 10 […]
349. Commandment – We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents; but if they strive to make thee associate that with Me of which thou hast no knowledge, then obey them not [29:9] And We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents; but if they strive to make thee […]
347. Commandment – Give thanks to thy parents [31:15] And We have enjoined on man concerning his parents — his mother bears him in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning takes two years — ‘Give thanks to Me and to thy parents. Unto Me is the final return. [46:16] And We have enjoined on […]
348. Commandment – They ask thee what they shall spend. Say: ‘Whatever of good and abundant wealth you spend should be for parents [2:216] They ask thee what they shall spend. Say: ‘Whatever of good and abundant wealth you spend should be for parents and near relatives and orphans and the […]
Press tv 1/9/2015 1:15:32 PM Edited by Rasha Mohamed: Speaking to Press TV, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari said the Western support for terrorism in Syria has […]
Constanze Letsch in Istanbul, Reyhanli and Kilis The Guardian, Thursday 25 December 2014 18.00 GMT Jump to comments (440) Refugees from Kobani watch the Syrian town during fighting between Isis and peshmerga forces. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Muhammad no longer recognises his country. The 35-year-old former teacher from Idlib province says […]
Michael Young| The Daily Star Earlier this week, Khaled Khoja, the new head of the Syria opposition in exile, rejected a Russian proposal to attend talks in Moscow to end the Syrian conflict. Khoja was right to doubt Russian intentions, but officials in Moscow are probably thinking in very different […]