Source: RNS MARRAKESH, Morocco (RNS) After the Prophet Muhammad established the first Muslim state, he wrote the Charter of Medina to make sure his subjects lived in harmony, whether they […]
Source: The Economist ONE OF this week’s most arresting news photographs featured Pope Francis in smiling conversation with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who is touring Europe in the hope […]
Source: NPR As the Islamic State uses social media and the Internet to recruit followers, a group of American Muslim millennials are also using the same tools to clear up […]
Source: Huffington Post From Prime Minister David Cameron questioning their ability to integrate into British society to facing an increasing number of Islamophobic attacks, Muslim women in the United Kingdom are finding that their personal choices and their very identities are becoming a subject for national debate. It’s no surprise, then, […]
Source: The Indian Express An Egyptian court has sentenced secular writer Fatima Naoot to three years in prison and a fine of $2,550 after being found guilty of insulting Islam, […]
Source: Gulf News Dubai: A leading UAE scholar has called for more research into the oldest Quranic manuscript found at the University of Birmingham, after new theories have shed light […]
Source: Independent The most obvious flaw in David Cameron’s extremism plan is this. What seems to you more likely to radicalise a young British Muslim: having a mother around the […]
http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/guide.htm?region=EN Title Contents Foreword Books of Reference System of Translation Chapter 1 Al-Fatihah Chapter 2 Al-Baqarah Chapter 3 Aal-e-`Imran Chapter 4 Al-Nisa’ Chapter 5 Al-Ma’idah Chapter 6 Al-An`am Chapter 7 Al-A`raf Chapter 8 Al-Anfal Chapter 9 Al-Taubah Chapter 10 Yunus Chapter 11 Hud Chapter 12 Yusuf Chapter 13 Al-Ra`d Chapter […]
Source: Independent Italy is setting up a council of “Italian Islam” that claims to be bringing the religion into compliance with the country’s “Christian and humanist tradition”. The reason for the […]
Source: The Economist Chess is a “waste of time” and causes enmity between players, according to the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh. It is therefore as much […]
Source: The economist YOGA has been in the news a lot recently. As colleagues have written, the establishment of International Yoga Day, celebrated for the first time last Sunday was […]
Source: Al Jazeera Police in Tajikistan have shaved nearly 13,000 people’s beards and closed more than 160 shops selling traditional Muslim clothing last year as part of the country’s fight […]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer By Tricia L. Nadolny, Staff Writer As Philadelphia City Council returned Thursday for its first meeting of the new term, bills were offered that would add teeth […]
Source: The Guardian The tying of a severed pig’s head to the gates of an Islamic school is being treated by police as a hate crime. The head was found […]
IMAM KAMIL MUFTI Published — Friday 22 January 2016 Islam is the response to humanity’s search for meaning. The purpose of creation for all men and women for all times has been one: To know and worship God. The Qur’an teaches us that every human being is born conscious of […]
Source: The Guardian By Kareem Shaheen in Beirut Game likely to take on status of minor vices such as music after Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh says it encourages gambling Saudi Arabia’s […]
Source:RNS NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) A Muslim man who shielded Christians after a passenger bus was ambushed by suspected al-Shabab militants is being saluted as a symbol of unity. Salah Farah, a schoolteacher, died Monday […]
Jan 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Mohammad Fazlhashemi Many in the Muslim community have long taken issue with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The declaration, these critics attest, was created by colonial powers with a long history of gross human rights violations and amounts to yet another […]
Source: Huffington Post I am dreading the day that my young son comes home from school hurt from his first experience of anti-Muslim bigotry. At age 8, he has little […]
theguardian: by Peter Frankopan — After the prophet Muhammad’s death his Arab followers swept all before them to east and west – but then, theirs was a kind, tolerant and respectful faith Fifteen centuries ago, Arab armies fanned out from the Middle East in search of conquest. For some who […]