286. Commandment to bestow not favours seeking to get more in return [74:7] And bestow not favours seeking to get more in return, [55:61] The reward of goodness is nothing but goodness.
ABHA: NADIA AL-FAWAZ ARABNEWS Saudi women are turning to foreigners for stability and security in the marital world. Many say they would rather marry foreigners to ensure that the marriage […]
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Monday 3 November 2014 Passengers departing from Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport have expressed shock and disappointment at the new rule limiting the amount of […]
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday received a telephone call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during which he asserted Israel’s commitment to defusing tension and restoring calm […]
The Economist: Capitalism through the ages A grand tour Experts look back at the economic system that dominates the Western world The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williamson.Cambridge University Press; 1,400 pages; £150. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ECONOMICS publishing has recently undergone a great democratisation. […]
The Daily Star Lebanon Events this week in Iraq and Syria offer dramatic proof of how weak the international campaign against ISIS is, as if any proof were required. When a foreign hostage held by ISIS is paraded before the camera, or later executed, the world learns his name. In […]
MEM For the first time since 1967, Israeli occupation forces actually entered into the southern Mosque in Al-Aqsa Compound, according to the director of the Islamic Awqaf, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib. […]
Alarabiya: France adopted Tuesday an anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate gave its final stamp […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli plans for roughly 500 new settler homes in occupied east Jerusalem are a “slap in the face” of the United States and the international community, a top Palestinian official said. Israel approved construction of the homes on Monday as chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat met US Secretary of […]
(JollofNews) – A senior Gambian Muslim cleric who recently called for the expulsion of Ahmadis and a complete ban on its teaching in the country has been relieved from his […]
JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Published — Tuesday 4 November 2014 Last update 4 November 2014 12:09 am “Is that true? I can’t believe my ears.” That is how Aboud Al-Aboud […]
Haj pilgrims from Syria have refused to return home after completing the pilgrimage citing the ongoing political unrest and have appealed for asylum in the Kingdom. With the deadline for […]
Abdul Qadir al-Djezairi’s palace is on the right, noble in spirit as well as architecture. He is the one who brought the Christians and Jews of Damascus to his home […]
United Nations (CNN) — The United States vetoed Friday a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that while the United States agrees about “the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, […]
281. Commandment to exceed not the bounds. Surely, Allah loves not those who exceed the bounds [6:142] And He it is Who brings into being gardens, trellised and untrellised, and the date-palm and cornfields whose fruits are of diverse kinds, and the olive and the pomegranate, alike and unlike. Eat […]
282. Commandment to obey not the bidding of those who exceed the bounds [26:152] ‘And obey not the bidding of those who exceed the bounds, [26:153] ‘Who create disorder in the earth, and reform it not.’
GAZA CITY: The Hamas militant group says it opposes a UN reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip following a 50-day war against Israel this summer. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Sunday called the UN mechanism “unacceptable, inefficient.” The UN announced the plan in September, creating a system to bring […]
LAHORE: A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Sunday at the main Pakistan-India border crossing, the blast tearing through crowds of spectators leaving after the colorful daily ceremony to […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Syria’s special forces troops are strung out across a pinnacle of hills here just north east of Lattakia on one of the country’s most dangerous […]
Haaretz: The conversion reform bill, which reaches the cabinet for approval on Sunday, contains a paradox. Three political parties, most of whose voters are secular, are promoting a new procedure for Orthodox conversion, against strong opposition from the ultra-Orthodox parties. Supporters portray the initiative as a masterpiece of liberalism against the ossified […]