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Thanking Allah with words, deeds

Sheikh ibn Baaz Blessings are commensurate with our gratitude. If you thank Allah for His favors, Allah will increase and bless them. But if you are ungrateful, favors will disappear and immediate punishments may follow in this life before the Hereafter. Blessings are of various types. They include having good […]

King Abdullah’s friends in the West stayed loyal, but revolution is on the horizon in Saudi Arabia How long can our Western leaders go on stroking and purring and fawning over – and arming – these Croesus-like autocrats?

by Robert Fisk, The Independent Poor old Kingdom. And old is the only word you can use about Saudi Arabia, where monarchical brothers take precedence over sons. King Abdullah died at 90. He had outlived two other crown princes. His successor Salman is already 79 and cannot expect to survive […]

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community offers its condolences to the people of Saudi Arabia upon the passing of the King Abdullah

pressahmadiyya.com: King Abdullah condolences   Sunday, 25 January 2015 Saudi Arabia offered condolences following passing of king. Saudia Arabia map The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community offers its condolences to the people of Saudi Arabia upon the passing of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud […]

The obscenity of calling Saudi King Abdullah a “reformer”

Vox.com: Saudi Arabia’s deceased King Abdullah, according to just about every obituary in major Western publications, was a reformer. The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and NPRall describe Abdullah as a ruler committed to reforming Saudi Arabia’s notoriously repressive practices. Sen. John McCain called Abdullah an advocate for peace; IMF head Christine Lagarde called […]

Japan: Muslims stress Islam rejects terrorism

Source: the-japan-news.com | The Yomiuri Shimbun The recent case in which two Japanese men were taken hostage by a group believed to be the Islamic State has drawn widespread criticism from Muslims living in Japan. “Islam does not condone persecution or violence,” Muhammed Rasit Alas, a 30-year-old imam dressed in white, told devotees […]