Syria: The Chaos of War Damascus Will the walls fall? By Anne Barnard Photograph by Andrea Bruce In the rectangular courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, the heart of Old Damascus, women swathed in black sit and chat on the cream-colored stone floor, polished smooth by the comings and goings of […]
Source: The International News By Hamid Mir Saturday, February 15, 2014 ISLAMABAD: It was for the first time that a Taliban leader participated in the government-TTP negotiations on Friday through a phone call and promised that the Taliban will seriously consider a ceasefire. But sources in the government committee fear that […]
Epigraph: And if you are in doubt as to what We (Allah) have sent down to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Chapter like it, and call upon your helpers beside Allah, if you are truthful. (Al Quran 2:24) Lead post collected by Abdul Alim, Philippines Publisher blames Indian law for Hindu […]
[108:3] So pray to thy Lord, and offer sacrifice. [46:16] And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him and his weaning takes thirty months, till, when he attains his full maturity […]
Special report: An immigration crisis on Britain’s doorstep in Calais Armed with nothing more than the hope of building a life in the UK, hundreds of refugees from Syria, Egypt, and other war-torn countries have risked their lives to reach the other side of the Channel CAHAL MILMO CALAIS Saturday 15 […]
SOURCE: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/syria-peace-talks-end-deadlock-2014215112455622202.html A Syrian activist group says the death toll in Syria’s three-year-old civil war has reached 140,000 [Reuters] Syria’s government and opposition have agreed on an agenda for a third round of peace talks in Geneva, but there has been no date set for the resumption of negotiations, […]
RIYADH: SHARIF M. TAHA Published — Saturday 15 February 2014 Saudi businesswomen retain SR100 billion in savings, or 75 percent of total bank savings Kingdomwide, a Saudi woman speaker […]
Source: post-gazette.com | ADNAN AHMED | Imam Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Pittsburgh | Wilkinsburg February is the Black’s History Month. This month provides us an opportunity to recognize the contribution of black Americans to American history. […]
Source: keighleynews.co.uk Members of Keighley’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association and Forest of Bradford volunteers exploited a break in the bad weather to plant hundreds of new trees. Helped by adult supervisors, […]
Source: lankaweb.com | by A. Abdul Aziz A number of Muslim states are facing varying degrees of insurgencies and violent attacks against state institutions, officials and ordinary people. The leading examples are Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Somalia. The Iraq government faces a militant challenge in Ambar Province where extremist and […]
Source: indcatholicnews.com CSW’s new report on Indonesia, which will be launched on 25 February in the UK Parliament, warns that ‘Religious intolerance is no longer confined to areas such as West […]
Hindus urge Kenya’s President Kenyatta to visit Kisumu Sikh Temple to show support to Sikhs Hindus have urged Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Samoei Ruto to show strong political will to take care of country’s minorities in view of recent Kisumu incidents. Kisumu Singh Sabha Cairo Road, […]
Epigraph: I see my community in the land of Russia, as numerous as the grains of sand. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani Source: Pew Research: Religion & Public Life Project Over […]
Economist: PEOPLE can usually recognise an egregious violation of religious freedom when they see one. Take two cases that were mentioned in a recent speech by Barack Obama on freedom of conscience round the world. Kenneth Bae is a Korean-American missionary who has been sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour by the […]
Dailytimes: If husbands are able to care for them rather equally — financially as well as emotionally — and the first wife does agree to the second wife, then why do some people make such a fuss about it? The interpretation of the sacred Quran varies quite significantly within the Muslim […]
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By Yasmine Hafiz When it comes to searingly passionate poetry, 13th-century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi has no equal. The Sufi mystic’s declarations of love speak across the centuries to strike […]
Epigraph: Those who believe and do good deeds — the Gracious God will create love in their hearts. So We have made it (the Qur’an) easy in thy tongue that thou mayest give thereby good tidings to the righteous, and warn thereby a people given to contention. (Al Quran 19:97-98) […]
by Khalid Baig, ARABNEWS.com Youth is a period of high energy and great enthusiasm, coupled with an air of invincibility and perpetuity. Like the driver of a fast car, […]
39. Be grateful [34:14] …….. ‘Work ye, O House of David gratefully;’ but few of My servants are grateful. [16:79] And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers while you knew nothing, and gave you ears and eyes and hearts, that you might be grateful. [34:16] There was indeed a […]