By Tom Heneghan, Reuters, Jordan Times BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN – Only five years ago, critical remarks by Pope Benedict about Islam sparked off violent protests in several Muslim countries.Never very good, relations between the world’s two largest religions sank to new lows in modern times. Last week, while protesters […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance will organize next month the […]
Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, the first Muslim missionary to USA in 1920s, in his early days in USA, to initiate his missionary work, went into a store and bought three pencils and chose to pay for the price of only one pencil. When the shop keeper protested and asked for further […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The word Injil occurs several times in the Quran (3:4, 3:49, 3:66, 5:47, 5:67, 5:69, 5:111; 7:158; 9:111; […]
By Spencer Wells DNA is more than 99% similar among all humans, so all claims for discrimination, like caste system, polygenetic theory of human origin or some people being the ‘chosen people’ are only self indulgence. There is very little difference in the intellectual abilities of different races or families. The […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Let me start this presentation with a few verses of the Holy Quran, which are a lighthouse on […]
Cave of Hira where the prophet had his first revelation! An honest study of the causes of the Dark Ages and European renaissance will lead to the inevitable conclusion that […]
A good place for the non-Muslims to start learning about the Holy Prophet Muhammad is a movie named the Message: Mohammed: Messenger of God (1976) Rated PG. After a non-Muslim […]
AMMAN (JT) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday received a delegation comprising participants in the Second Muslim-Catholic Forum, which opened at the Baptism Site in the Jordan Valley on […]
BAPTISM SITE (Petra) – HRH Prince Ghazi, chairman of the Royal Al al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, on Monday said Islamic-Catholic dialogue, particularly between political and religious leaders, has […]
A bus, part of a convoy carrying Turkish pilgrims, has come under gun attack in central Syria, Turkish media and officials say. At least two people, one of them a bus driver, were injured in the attack near the flashpoint city of Homs, they say. The passengers, who had attended […]
Zafaryab Ali and his business partner, Peerada Shah, Two Pakistani Muslims in Brooklyn were shocked on hearing through a friend that Coney Island Bialys and Bagels was closing. Ali had worked at the store for 10 years in the 1990s and remembers it always being crowded, with lines out the […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Passport Department has urged all foreign pilgrims who have come for Haj to leave the Kingdom before the expiry of their visas. “Saudi regulations do not allow pilgrims overstaying their Haj visas,” it said. Brig. Ayed Al-Harbi, commander of the Passport Department […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A Sri Lankan delegation visiting Dawadmi, 380 km from the capital, was given a warm welcome by the Otaibi tribe leader Mohamed Faihan Shoraim Al-Otaibi on Thursday. The high-powered delegation led by Sri Lanka’s Western Province Gov. Alavi Mowlana met the tribal leaders […]
18.11.2011 | Source: Pravda.Ru The world’s largest Quran, the Holy book for all Muslims, has arrived in Kazan. The huge book sized 1.5×2 meters weighs 800 kilos. The book has 632 pages, made from Scottish paper. The cover of the book is encrusted with semiprecious stones, malachite, fianites, jasper, as well as gold and […]
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Various government departments in Madinah are continuing round-the-clock efforts to serve pilgrims who are flocking to the Prophet’s City in the post-Haj phase. The departments started their special Haj services under the supervision of Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed early October when the Haj […]
By Laila Azzeh, Jordan Times. AMMAN – Clerics, intellectuals and researchers convened yesterday to discuss different approaches to teaching religion in schools and universities in the region, stressing the importance of inter-religious education to promote tolerance and understanding. Held under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan, the symposium, “An Introduction […]
Palestine News Network Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayb of the Islamic University of al-Azhar in Cairo, one of the foremost authorities of Islamic jurisprudence in the world, laid out on a Wednesday a set of steps to “defend the holy city of Jerusalem.” A delegation from the Palestinian group the Popular Campaign […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “If there had been in the heavens and the earth other gods besides Allah, then surely both would have gone to ruin. Glorified then be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, far above what they attribute to Him.” […]