Source: allafrica.com Every activity in the month of Ramadan should be for seeking the blessings of Allah. Succintly put, the Tarawih is considered part of Ramadan. In the early days of Islam in Mecca, the companions of the Prophet and his successors used to make prolonged rak’ah during Ramadan. So long […]
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You were big enough to admit that your comrades tried to kill a young girl, but I would advise against picking a fight with women The Guardian: Dear Adnan Rasheed, […]
islamfoundingfathers.wordpress.com: This is certainly an intriguing question and one which Alexandra Meav Jerome considers in a piece for Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Jerome writes: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution contain similar clauses on some topics. The Constitution of Medina states: “The Jews shall maintain their own religion and the […]
By Damon Lavrinc (CNN) — Elon Musk wants to revolutionize transportation. Again. The serial entrepreneur envisions a future where mag-lev trains in enormous pneumatic tubes whisk us from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes. Need to be in Beijing tomorrow? No problem. It’s a two-hour ride away. As crazy as […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the […]
Source: The Daily Beast – by Alaa MurabitLibyan women wear tape over their mouths during a December 2012 protest in Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli calling for more freedom of expression, greater transparency, and a more important role for the judiciary and the security forces. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty) Enlightenment Using Islam to Combat […]
Source: The New Haven Register (nhregister.com), Serving New Haven, CT By Sohail Z Husain MD I’m really looking forward to the midst of summer. But I won’t be sipping tea during […]
BBC World: Audio File Ahmadiyya Muslims, British Public and Non Ahmadiyya Muslims are interviewed by BBC Newsday on what it means to be a Muslim today in Modern Britain. Commentary […]
“We pray for holiness, but we also need to be careful of others’ desire for holiness,” “The moment you want to translate that into building a Temple, you upset the […]
The Huffington Post | By Eline Gordts An average of 6,000 Syrians a day have fled their war-torn country since the beginning of 2013, in what the United Nations considers one of […]
New Law Restricts Rights to Association, Expression, and Religion Human Rights Watch: A new law in Indonesia places unnecessary and onerous restrictions on the activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human […]
The Guardian: by Liz Williams. The majority of pagans these days do not dwell in the country, but a yearning towards nature is marked According to the recent census, there are around 80,000 people who call themselves pagans in England and Wales today. Although they are insignificant numerically, they haunt […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD, July 18: A polio virus found recently in southern Israel is exactly of the same kind as prevalent in Pakistan. Dr Nima Abid, a representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Pakistan, while talking to Dawn expressed surprise over the development. “We don’t have details how the […]
LUBP: Lord Avebury: ASWJ-LeJ terrorists condemned in House of Lords posted by Taj | July 19, 2013 | In Original Articles Pakistan: Religious Violence Question for Short Debate 2 pm Asked by Lord Avebury To ask […]
Source: TOI: KUALA LUMPUR: Several Islamic groups on Friday demanded the recall of the Vatican’s first envoy to Malaysia, describing him as an “enemy of the state” after he supported the use of the word ” Allah” by non-Muslims. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Vatican’s mission in Kuala Lumpur, […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar When the Group of Eight summit took place in Northern Ireland last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the diplomatic grapevine, wanted to use the gym at the Enniskillen resort, but his American counterpart Barack Obama had already booked it. Neither would […]
Source: Spiegel: A Slap in the Face The Defense Ministry is also very cautious compared to the BND when it comes to deferentiating the Prism program in Afghanistan from the Prism spying program that was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and involves the systematic monitoring of German communications. […]