135. If you are kept back, then make whatever offering is easily available [2:197] And complete the Hajj and the ‘Umrah for the sake of Allah: but if you are kept back, then make whatever offering is easily available; and do not shave your heads until the offering reaches its […]
137. And whoever among you is sick or has an ailment of the head, should make an expiation either by fasting or almsgiving or a sacrifice [2:197] And complete the Hajj and the ‘Umrah for the sake of Allah: but if you are kept back, then make whatever offering is […]
137. And whoever among you is sick or has an ailment of the head, should make an expiation either by fasting or almsgiving or a sacrifice [2:197] And complete the Hajj and the ‘Umrah for the sake of Allah: but if you are kept back, then make whatever offering is […]
Teachers are to be sent on training programmes to help them stop extremism entering the classroom, as damning reports show that some state schools have been imposing Islamic practices and […]
TORY SUMMARY The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. The family of Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22, Saturday declined to comment or to open their door as a small group of reporters gathered outside their home in […]
The private Garden City Club: a broiling Cairo night, lots of dust outside, but the same scuffed old floorboards and art deco interior with photos of British oarsmen on the walls. And there at the dinner table is the giant figure of Alaa al-Aswany, the greatest living Egyptian novelist and […]
The private Garden City Club: a broiling Cairo night, lots of dust outside, but the same scuffed old floorboards and art deco interior with photos of British oarsmen on the walls. And there at the dinner table is the giant figure of Alaa al-Aswany, the greatest living Egyptian novelist and […]
NINETY-THREE PER CENT! Let me write that again: 93 per cent! Or 93.3 per cent if you want to be precise. This superb, stunning, incredible – quite literally, one might say – achievement in Egypt’s presidential election, places ex-Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on a pedestal alongside those other imperishable […]
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Barthlomew I prayed together in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a beautiful act of unity. Now, they’re […]
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Some states take their religious services very seriously. Breaking these laws could send you straight from the chapel to the cooler for something as […]
The NewYork Times: by Nitahsa Tiku — So what if, instead of trying to guess at what might get girls interested in technology, we looked at what’s already on their screens? While parents often worry about recreational “screen time,” some educators now believe that gaming could be a way to […]
By Saeed Qureshi The good neighborly relationship between India and Pakistan could not be brought about for seven decades. Can Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif resume the peace process initiated jointly by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif way back in 1999? That historic […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be […]
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) Belfast, Northern Ireland Thousands marched at an anti-racism rally held in Belfast, where Peter Robinson was called on to […]
Chennai: Well-known Indian actress Monica has decided to revert to Islam, don Islamic headscarf and quit the film industry, Times of India reported. “I have not convert for the reason of love or money, am not such a person. I like Islamic principles. This is why I have converted to […]
SYDNEY – A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of Islam has been approved to be shown to high school students in South Australia, in a step […]
Indonesian authorities said on Friday they were testing products made by British confectioner Cadbury to check they complied with Islamic standards after two chocolate varieties in neighbouring Malaysia were found to be contaminated with pork DNA. The scandal over the ingredient banned under Islamic dietary laws has sparked outrage among […]
Online petition requesting day off for Eid and Diwali has 119,000 signatures Under rules topic has to be debated in parliament once it reaches 100,000 Would be first non-Christian religious holidays to be marked Has angered nationalists who complain St George’s day is ignored An online petition urging politicians to […]
Noor Hussain, 75 allegedly murdered his wife 66, because she cooked him lentils rather than goat. Tribune.com.pk By AFP ,Published: May 30, 2014 http://tribune.com.pk/story/715295/pakistani-immigrant-convicted-of-wifes-murder-in-new-york/ The Pakistani woman was allegedly murdered by her husband because she cooked him lentils rather than goat. PHOTO: FILE NEW YORK: A US judge convicted an elderly […]