The Reason Why I Will Never Go For Hajj By Akif Kichloo 12/09/2015 On one side, there 2 million displaced Syrian refugees in great distress and on the other, more than 2 million Muslims, totally disconnected from the tragedy, spending their life savings to indulge in a 1400-year-old ritual Fa […]
Using the Ka’aba for business – how is the Saudi regime any different from pre-Islam pagans? | Wishal Raheel Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest If you can afford to pay absurd amounts of money, you can stay in a hotel right in front of the Grand Mosque. […]
Arab News Published — Friday 4 September 2015 Since Haj is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most people, the importance of early and adequate preparation cannot be over-emphasized. The following guidelines (this is the second of a three-part series) are intended to get you started in the right direction. […]
All India | Reported by Tanima Biswas, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: September 09, 2015 18:48 IST http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2-women-allegedly-raped-rescued-from-saudi-diplomats-gurgaon-home-1215651 GURGAON: They escaped the April earthquake in their country Nepal but found hell in the sprawling home of a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Gurgaon near Delhi. Two women rescued on Monday from the diplomat’s fifth floor apartment in […]
FP: Pope Francis has won praise around the world for advancing a more humble, tolerant version of Catholicism, but there’s one country that he evidently hasn’t won over. Saudi Arabia […]
By Michael StephensRoyal United Services Institute (Rusi), Doha Image copyrightReutersImage captionTens of thousands of Syrian refugees are heading westwards into Europe Images of Syrian refugees stuck at borders and at train stations, not to mention the harrowing picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, has spurred […]
580. Commandment – Regarding Jizya (kind of tax) [9:29] Fight those from among the People of the Book who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor hold as unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have declared to be unlawful, nor follow the true religion, until they pay […]
In this May 10, 2014 file photo, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Iyad Madani speaks to The Associated Press during an interview at his office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 7 September 2015 JEDDAH: The secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation […]
Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar visits the headquarters of the pilgrim establishment for Arab states in Makkah on Thursday. (AN photo Ahmad Hashad) ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 5 September 2015 JEDDAH: A total of 172,000 pilgrims have arrived via 861 flights from around the world at King Abdulaziz International Airport […]
578. Commandment – Rules and regulations for the division of spoils [59:8] Whatever Allah has given to His Messenger as spoils from the people of the towns is for Allah and for the Messenger and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that […]
577. Commandment – the postponement of a Sacred Month is an addition to disbelief [9:37] Surely, the postponement of a Sacred Month is an addition to disbelief. Those who disbelieve are led astray thereby. They allow it one year and forbid it another year, that they may agree in the number of the months which Allah has […]
576. Commandment – The violation of a Sacred Month should be retaliated in the Sacred Month; and for all sacred things there is the law of retaliation. So, whoso transgresses against you, punish him for his transgression to the extent to which he has transgressed against you [2:195] The violation of a Sacred Month should be retaliated in the Sacred Month; […]
575. Commandment – They ask thee about fighting in the Sacred Month. Say: ‘Fighting therein is a great transgression [2:218] They ask thee about fighting in the Sacred Month. Say: ‘Fighting therein is a great transgression, but to hinder men from the way of Allah, and to be ungrateful to Him and to hinder men […]
574. Commandment – The reckoning of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah’s ordinance since the day when He created the heavens and the earth. Of these, four are sacred. That is the right creed. So wrong not yourselves therein. [9:36] The reckoning of months with Allah has been […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Saturday 29 August 2015 Wars have always inflicted horrendous disaster on human psyche. Some people who get terrified by the first gunshot, bomb and reports of death gradually become insensitive to human miseries. War, as well as its foul consequences, becomes a part of life. […]
572. Commandment – And fight them not in, and near, the Sacred Mosque until they fight you therein. But if they fight you, then fight them: such is the requital for the disbelievers [2:192] And kill them wherever you meet them and drive them out from where they have driven you out; for […]
571. Commandment – It does not behove a Prophet that he should have captives until he engages in regular fighting in the land [8:68] It does not behove a Prophet that he should have captives until he engages in regular fighting in the land. You desire the goods of the world, […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 28 August 2015 Haj is one of the five pillars of Islam. All Muslims who fulfill certain conditions must perform Haj at least once […]
566. Commandment – Excepting those of the idolaters with whom you have entered into a treaty and who have not subsequently failed you in anything nor aided anyone against you. So fulfil to these the treaty you have made with them till their term [9:4] Excepting those of the idolaters with whom you have entered […]
568. Commandment – And be not like those who came forth from their homes boastfully, and to be seen of men, and who turn men away from the path of Allah [8:48] And be not like those who came forth from their homes boastfully, and to be seen of men, and who turn men away […]