Saudi Arabia

425. Commandment – Punishment for those who make false and defamatory statements about chaste women

425. Commandment – Punishment for those who make false and defamatory statements about chaste women [24:5] And those who calumniate chaste women but bring not four witnesses — flog them with eighty stripes, and never admit their evidence thereafter, and it is they that are the transgressors, [24:6] Except those who repent thereafter […]

OIC supports military action in Yemen

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has backed the military action in Yemen and slammed the Houthis for undermining the country’s legitimate government. Iyad Ameen Madani, secretary general of the OIC, said here Thursday that military action was inevitable to save the country from “the chaos unleashed on it by […]

Allah is the sole Creator

God never had a child, nor have there been any gods beside him. [Had there been any], each of them would have appropriated to himself what he created, and some would have overcome others…” (Qur’an, 23:91) DR. JAAFAR SHEIKH IDRIS Published — Friday 27 March 2015 ARABNEWS.COM Can it be […]

Islam ‘forbids unjust excommunication’

JEDDAH: MD AL-SULAMI Published — Friday 27 March 2015 ARABNEWS.COM Islam forbids Muslims from declaring others non-believers, known as takfir, without backing from the Qur’an because this causes unnecessary bloodshed, the Council of Senior Scholars said in a statement on Thursday. Countries in the region have taken action against certain […]