By Imam Syed Shamshad A. Nasir (Baitul Hameed Mosque – Chino, CA) The year 2013 is here no more. By the grace of God, we have made it to 2014. We pray that every new day that dawns is a blessed one, and every night that passes does so in […]
The World From Here: Will Abbas defy Islam for peace with Israel? By DAN DIKER, HAROLD RHODE 12/31/2013 23:11 “Can Israeli concessions influence the Palestinians to sign an historic peace deal that ends the Arab-Israeli conflict once and for all?” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a PLO meeting […]
Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal […]
Epigraph So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) Happy New Year and What is the Muslim Times doing for You? Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy and a prosperous new year […]
By Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00 Source: OnIslam.net Ala-al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (known as Ibn Al-Nafis) was born in 1213 A.D. in Damascus. He was educated at the Medical College Hospital (Bimaristan Al-Noori) founded by Noor al-Din Al-Zanki. Apart from medicine, Ibn […]
Most Black American Muslims trace their roots to a recent religion founded in Newark in 1913. By Daniel Pipes The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of […]
DUBAI: Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said Wednesday. “Ten months in planning, over 500,000 fireworks were used during the display which lasted around six minutes, with Guinness […]
By Zubair Khan: Photos: Bilal Aslam: (Photos of Participants of Waqare Amal in Majlis Bensheim) It has become a norm and a religious tradition of the Ahmadiyya Community to start every year with prayers and supplications and serving mankind through social and community work. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany […]
December 31, 2013 12:29 AM By Hassan Rouhani The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY When I campaigned to become president of Iran, I promised to balance realism and the pursuit of the Islamic Republic’s ideals – and won Iranian voters’ support by a large margin. That commitment led directly to the […]
JOHN DAVISON | AFP ARABNEWS Published — Tuesday 31 December 2013 JERUSALEM: Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners Tuesday as part of US-brokered peace talks ahead of Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit to the region. The release prompted elation among Palestinians, who welcomed the prisoners back into the West […]
Geneva is one of those cities that is on everyone’s must travel list; I know it was on mine before I finally visited. My mother and aunt lived there and attended college in a nearby city, Lausanne. Hearing their stories about this magical city made me want to visit, especially […]
Saudi Arabia has pledged $3bn in aid to the Lebanese armed forces, a gift that comes in a time when tensions run high, both inside Lebanon and across the region. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman announced the donation on Sunday describing it as the largest grant ever given to the country’s […]
Saudi Arabia has pledged $3bn in aid to the Lebanese armed forces, a gift that comes in a time when tensions run high, both inside Lebanon and across the region. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman announced the donation on Sunday describing it as the largest grant ever given to the country’s […]
ET: In a 2013 global survey conducted by Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup, the public perception of United States saved Pakistan the embarrassment of being labeled the biggest threat to world peace today. 24% of the world believes America represents the biggest threat to peace. In comparison, only 8% believe it is Pakistan, which […]
For all the achievements and progress of the past century, the world has become increasingly divided and restless with hostilities and conflicts ever-present. The struggle for supremacy of world powers and the spiralling threat […]
LONDON, December 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Thousands of British Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will gather in over 90 mosques across the country to welcome in the New Year with […]
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor Happy and a prosperous new year to all our readers, from the […]
Author: Atif Munawar Mir How bittersweet the time of New Year’s The scope of celebration beyond a mere digit’s change ‘Tis a time when: New hopes are born. Old dreams fade away. Fresh resolutions are made. Old ones pass away. The magic of possibility imbues the mundane. The power to […]
By Saad Karamat: A recent graduate of University of California, Berkeley, where he studied global poverty and public health. He is an aspiring physician and humanitarian. Originally published in The Orange County Register Most people are often surprised to hear that Jesus is a highly esteemed figure in Islam. My friend once asked, […]
By Brian Pellot | Religion News Service, Published: December 31 LONDON — Eight of the 47 countries that hold seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council imprisoned people in 2013 under laws that restrict religious freedom, according to a new report from Human Rights Without Frontiers International, a nonprofit […]