1944: Membership for Ahmadiyyas
Source: dawn.com Kindly click on the image to zoom it The Content: From the past pages of dawn: 1944: Seventy years ago: Membership for Ahmadiyyas QADIAN: The question whether members of […]
US Supreme Court Allows Prayers at Town Meetings
Source: NY Times By ADAM LIPTAK MAY 5, 2014 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York may begin its public meetings with a prayer […]
Nigeria: Muslim Students Call for National Fasting Over Chibok Girls
The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSS), yesterday urged Nigerians to embark on fasting and prayer for the safe return of the students abducted in Chibok, Borno, on April 14. Malam Abdulazeez Folayemi, President of the society made the call in Minna during a lecture to mark the Diamond Jubilee […]
Syria neighbours want more from world to handle refugee burden
by Khetam Malkawi | May 04, 2014 | ZAATARI — Neighbours of Syria on Sunday called on the international community to help hosts of Syrian refugees shoulder the humanitarian burden […]
Muslim, Christian leaders decry Israel enlisting of Christian Arabs
by Rula Samain | May 04, 2014 | 22:48 AMMAN — Muslim and Christian leaders, and intellectuals have denounced a recent Israeli move to recruit Arab Christians in its army as a “Zionist conspiracy aiming not only to divide and weaken the Arab ranks, but also to push Christians to […]
How the Philippines is crushing the Indian call center business
Global Post: by Patrick Winn — BANGKOK, Thailand — It’s a call center cliche, familiar to many Americans who’ve picked up phones to contest bogus bank charges or gripe about a laptop on the skids. The agent who answers goes by a common US name, perhaps Larry or Jennifer. Yet the accent […]
One-a-Day Commandments of the Holy Quran – Approach not Prayer when you are not in full possession of your senses
112. Approach not Prayer when you are not in full possession of your senses [4:44] O ye who believe! approach not Prayer when you are not in full possession of your senses, until you know what you say, nor when you are unclean, except when you are travelling along a […]
Catholic church leaders prepare for grilling by UN human rights panel
Guardian: The leadership of the Roman Catholic church faces a fresh grilling by UN human rights observers on Monday as a delegation from the Holy See makes its debut appearance […]
Nobel-winning US economist Gary Becker dies at 83: University
ET: CHICAGO: Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behaviour won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has died at age 83, the University […]
Fatima Jinnah: A sister’s sorrow
Dawn: One of the most fascinating characters in the initial saga of the painful birth of Pakistan is Fatima Jinnah, the frail-looking, graceful but gritty sister of the founder of the nation, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She was a passionate political worker, a determined activist for women’s rights and a qualified […]
Robert Fisk: Spain is inviting back Jews expelled from the country in the 16th Century. But don’t mention the Muslims Our cousins in Madrid and Lisbon simply don’t want Muslims to come to Europe
Lost lands are littered with the homes of those who lived there. Armenian houses in south-eastern Turkey. Abandoned Palestinian homes in Israel. German property in what was the Sudetenland and […]
Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only
PM proposes rare change to basic law in response to ‘constant and increasing assault’ on aspects of Israel’s legitimacy Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem theguardian.com, Sunday 4 May 2014 19.03 BST Binyamin Netanyahu will push ahead with a rare change to Israel’s basic laws – which amount to the country’s constitution […]
Abbas, Hamas chief to hold first talks since unity deal
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to hold talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Doha on Monday for the first meeting since their rival movements signed a […]
Army deployed in Assam after 32 Muslims killed
GUWAHATI: India deployed troops to the state of Assam on Saturday after over 30 Muslims were gunned down in three days of what police said were attacks by tribal militants who resent the presence of immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Police found nine more bodies Saturday, taking the death toll to […]
Palestinians smuggling sperm out of Israeli jails so wives can have babies
ASKAR REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank: Suad Abu Fayed and her husband have had no physical contact for more than 11 years. That is how long he has been in an […]
The irresistible lure of Pakistan’s ‘killer mountain’
Gunmen shot dead 10 foreign tourists at its base camp last year, but for serious mountaineers, the allure of Pakistan’s “killer mountain” remains irresistible. Militants stormed Nanga Parbat base camp […]
Stephen Hawking: Beware smart machines
Source: BBC Dismissing the implications of highly intelligent machines could be humankind’s “worst mistake in history”, write astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, computer scientist Stuart Russell, and physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek in […]
Pastors Ordained by God to Demystify Christianity
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 111. Satan keeps you back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. But will you keep back?
111. Satan keeps you back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. But will you keep back? [5:92] Satan desires only to create enmity and hatred among you by means of wine and the game of hazard, and to keep you back from the remembrance of Allah and from […]
Ghana: Aspire to moral uprightness – Sherry Ayittey at the 82nd Jalsa Salana of Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya
Source: ghanaweb.com Ghanaians have been advised to aspire to moral uprightness for their spiritual uplift and national economic growth and development. The Minister of Health, Ms. Sherry Ayittey, gave the advice […]