171. Commandment to purify yourself before touching the Holy Qur’an [56:80] Which none shall touch except those who are purified. Courtesy Amjad Tariq Sydney
ARAB NEWS 1. Focusing on food, to the extent that people begin to worry about eating more than actually fasting. This also goes along with spending heaps of money on iftars even though a person does not need to eat that much food. 2. Making sahoor much before Fajr. Eating […]
KABUL: Former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani won Afghanistan’s presidential election, according to preliminary results released on Monday, with 56.4 percent of the run-off vote to Abdullah Abdullah’s 43.5 percent. […]
Summary Maliki exit path to hope Despite growing unease over his tenure by allies in the West and the region, including internal partners in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears as determined as ever to retain power, but his obstinacy looks to threaten the stability of the entire region and […]
The Truth Message – Part – 3.26: Islam & Jihad Let me begin with Bismi-llahi r-rahmani r-rahim [In The Name Of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Ever Merciful] The Islamic institution of Jihad is the least understood and the most talked about aspect of Islam in the world today. Unfortunately […]
News from Anees Ahmad Nadeem The oldest Muslim Group in Japan, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community which resides here since 4th June 1935, participated in the 21st Tokyo International Book Fair 2014 […]
Palestinian children continue to suffer high levels of violence and intimidation from Israeli forces. Brad Parker is a staff attorney and international advocacy officer with Defence for Children International Palestine, an independent child-rights organisation dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel […]
Palestinian children continue to suffer high levels of violence and intimidation from Israeli forces. Brad Parker is a staff attorney and international advocacy officer with Defence for Children International Palestine, an independent child-rights organisation dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel […]
(CNN) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has made a renewed call for Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to cease violence towards the countries’ Muslim minorities, in an […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the fighters receiving scathing criticism from both mainstream religious leaders, and those associated with their former allies, al-Qaeda. Assem Barqawi, also known as Abu Mohamed al-Maqdesi, who was released […]
Source: NDTV The Supreme Court today ruled that Shariat courts have no legal sanction and no one is bound to accept a fatwa or diktat pronounced by them.The court decided […]
Almost all Deobandi religious leaders and all Barelvi ulema were on the payroll of the empire. This is how they sustained a living and ample proof can be found in their own books Canadian activist and polemicist Tarek Fatah, responding to my article ‘Shorish Kashmiri, Azad and partition’ last week […]
kashifmd.com: Ahmadiyya Islam: Status of non-Ahmadi Muslims? Can non-Ahmadi Muslims identify themselves as Muslims according to Ahmadiyya Islam? The simple and ONLY answer is: YES! Everyone has the right to self-identity. Do Ahmadi Muslims identify non-Ahmadi Muslims as Muslims? Another YES! Recently, I have come across some critics of Islam who […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 7 July 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the payment of SR1.39 billion in emergency assistance to poor families in the Kingdom. “Families subscribed to the social insurance scheme will benefit from the royal gesture,” said an official statement. […]
By Robert Fisk, in the Independent newspaper Dumping blame for the Holocaust on the wretched figure of the Grand Mufti is an insult to the six million victims of an evil regime A highly incriminating story, if true – but “possible” is hardly the stuff of history And so – […]
IPSnews: by Azza Suleiman — CAIRO, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Although indicators relating to women have improved over the years, they still remain large differences between men and women in literacy and schooling, the labor force and unemployment, and political participation. In Egypt, as in most other countries, there are […]
Occupied Jerusalem: Like many residents of the prosperous Occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Waleed Abu Khudair lives a life in two cultures: His neighbours are predominantly Palestinian, but his boss and customers at a popular West Jerusalem bakery are Jewish. It’s a dualism that has worked for years. But […]
By Shamim Masih We learnt the story from The Bible, when Abram heard that his brother (Lot) was taken captive, He brought back all the goods, and also brought again […]