Friday Sermon 16th June 2017
The Promised Messiah (as) has said that in order to have true Taqwa, one must instill all good morals in one’s self. Therefore, a believer should try to adopt all […]
Taboo-breaking liberal mosque opens in Berlin
Source:The Local With a mission to spread a liberal form of Islam, a mosque where men and women pray side by side has opened its doors in Berlin, complete with female imams. The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is greatest’) resonated through the crowded Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque Friday as US-Malaysian Ani Zonneveld, […]
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl dies
Source:CNN German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87. Kohl served as chancellor for 16 years — from 1982 to 1998 — and was Germany’s longest-serving leader since 1945. He […]
US sailors missing after Navy destroyer collision off Japan
Source: CNN Seven US sailors are missing and the commanding officer of a US destroyer is among the injured after the warship collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan, the US Navy said. The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered damage to its starboard side above and below […]
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways
Source: National geographic In the fall of 1989 Princeton University welcomed into its freshman class a young man named Alexi Santana, whose life story the admissions committee had found extraordinarily compelling. He had barely received any formal schooling. He had spent his adolescence almost entirely on his own, living outdoors […]
Arab world’s coming challenges
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor […]
Rules of Fasting
Beginning the month of Ramadhan Abu Huraira relates that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: start the month after sighting the new moon and end it at the next sighting. If you are unable to observe it by reason of the sky being […]
Laylatul Qadr – Worship Plan to Maximise the Last 10 Nights of Ramadan!
Allah says in the Qur’an: The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [Qur’an: 97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last […]
The Last Ten Nights and Days of Ramadan and Laila-tul-Qadr – A Checklist
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: This Ramadan Learn Quran from 50 Translations, Rather Than Just One Although the immense blessings of Ramadan are well known, the last ten nights of Ramadan are even more important and even more blessed than the rest of Ramadan. In these ten nights is […]
Exclusive – U.S. nears decisions on resettlement of Australian-held refugees
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 FILE PHOTO – A sign adorns the security fence near shelters inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Behrouz Boochani/Handout via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The United States will tell dozens of refugees […]
Russia’s military says it may have killed Islamic State leader; West, Iraq sceptical
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet […]
Watch: How Muslims awake for Ramadan helped save lives in London tower blaze
Londoners have said Muslims awake for Ramadan may have helped save a lot of lives Smoke and flames billow from a massive fire that raged in a 27-floor high-rise apartment building in London, WImage Credit: AP People react near a tower block severely damaged by a serious fire, in north […]
Plastic to outweigh fish in the sea if waste keeps flowing
More than 5tr pieces of plastic floating in world’s oceans, with more hidden in the guts of marine creatures A beach in the Azores is pictured littered with plastic garbage, […]
Qatar and the myth of humanitarian work
Funding terror through ransoms, Qatar has sought to punch above its weight by expanding its brand and influence abroad Image Credit: QNA In April, Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al […]
The new, subtle ways the rich signal their wealth
Source: BBC News By Elizabeth Currid-Halkett From Aeon 14 June 2017 In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen observed that silver spoons and corsets were markers of elite social position. In […]
Open-minded people have a different visual perception of reality
Source: Quartz WRITTEN BY Olivia Goldhill Psychologists have only begun to unravel the concept of “personality,” that all-important but nebulous feature of individual identity. Recent studies suggest that personality traits […]
Reading Erdogan’s Ambitions in Turkey’s New Mosques
Source: The New York Times A building spree of houses of worship is furthering the Islamicizationof the country and providing an ongoing economic engine. Photographs by NORMAN BEHREND In […]
For Christians In Egypt, Building A New Church Can Set Off Violence
Source: NPR BY JANE ARRAF Christians in Minya province have faced long-running tensions with their Muslim neighbors over an issue central to their survival as a community — whether […]
Pope again flexes papal muscle to keep tabs on cardinals
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is once again flexing his papal muscle by seeking to keep tabs on his cardinals who live in […]
During Ramadan, Bottled Water Helps Local Muslims Bridge Religious Divide
Source: WFPL By Roxanne Scott A gray Honda pulls up on the corner at Fourth and Chestnut and stops at the traffic light. A few people walk up to the left […]