Islamic book fair in Kenya

Kenyan Islamic faithful have been encouraged to cultivate a culture of reading in the ongoing Islamic Book-fair on Islamic topics and other religions, family, and children at Jamia Mosque Complex in Nairobi. The four-day Islamic Book-fair is the first of its kind to be held in Kenya. The exhibition is organised by Al Quds Company (Egypt) and Jamia Mosque Committee from Kenya. The wide range of books on Islamic and other ...

( 2023-10-19 23:06:31 )

Brazilian Journalist: Brazil Enthusiastic about Islam

Editor-in-chief of the Brazilian daily Folha says that his fello countrymen are so keen to know more about Islam and its teachings. "If you tell a Brazilian that you are a Muslim, he/she shows tremendous enthusiasm to become acquainted with your religion for Brazilians are very open-minded and welcome new ideas," Samy Adghirni told IQNA correspondent at Tehran 16th International Press Festival. Adghirni boasted that in Brazil, contrary ...

( 2023-10-19 23:06:31 )

Shia Mosque Near Brussels Set on Fire, Imam Martyrs

Police said the man, detained after mosque personnel trapped him inside the building, apparently used fuel to set fire to the Imam Rida (a.s) mosque near Brussels' international rail hub, martyring 46-year-old Imam of the mosque and father-of-four Abdallah Dadou. One man was arrested in the attack on the mosque in Anderlecht, a suburb of Brussels, the Belgian capital, said Jean-Marc Meilleur, a spokesman for the Brussels Prosecutor’s ...

( 2023-10-19 18:03:53 )

Massive food waste seen at Ramadan iftars in Saudi Arabia

Some people believe so much food is wasted at these mass iftars while others dismiss such apprehensions and call for organizing even bigger iftar projects. Journalist Ayman Al-Ghabawee said one iftar meal costs a minimum of SR10. If a city has 150,000 people who join these parties, the cost of providing them the meals will hit SR1.5 million a day or SR45 million the whole month, said Al-Ghabawee. “We have poor and sick people who are in ...

( 2023-10-19 14:59:59 )

Karbala on the night of 10th Muharram 1434

Millions of people from Iraq cities and other countries, dressed in black, took to the holy Shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother Hadrat Abbas on the night of Ashura, the ninth day of the lunar month of Muharram, to mourn the tragedy on a day known as Tasua'.

( 2023-10-19 08:53:54 )

True Colours: Saudi Arabia resorts to slander to tarnish both Iraq and Arbaeen

I don’t think this quote has ever rung more pertinently true. I also think that Saudi Arabia’s recent faux-pas towards Iraq and Shia Islam most brilliantly exemplified the abominable sectarian nature of the kingdom’s dogmatic aberration: Wahhabism. The report has since been removed by Asharq-al-Awsat and its editor in chief was made to resign. The UN’s health agency almost immediately refuted the allegation noting: ...

( 2023-10-19 06:49:38 )

France bans burqa but tolerates nudity

The ban came into force on Monday and was followed by immediate arrest of nearly 60 women that defied the ban by walking outside the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. A recently-surfaced video, meanwhile, featured a naked male running around the country's streets while trying to cut a figure as a pole vaulter. Kenza Drider, a young Muslim that left the southern city of Avignon for Paris to participate in a television program on the day the ...

( 2023-10-18 22:34:19 )

Imam Hussain's flag hoisted on the dome of Husainiyyah of Zaria, Nigeria

Imam Hussain's flag hoisted on the dome of Husainiyyah of Zaria, Nigeria - 1437-2015Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Heralding the fall of new Lunar year 1437 and commencement of Ashura Mourning gatherings, thousands of people dressed in black witnessed the change of flags on the dome of Husainiyyah Baqiyyatullah of Zaria under the Leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.The black flag of Imam Hussain and al-Abbas gifted by custodian of ...

( 2023-10-18 19:32:22 )

South Africa groups to join anti-Israel move

The South African Communist Party and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions SA, also known as the BDS South Africa, say they will soon launch their action plan against Tel Aviv. Nzimande said Tel Aviv was trying to conceal its atrocities against the Palestinian nation by not allowing concerned visitors to go and see what is truly happening in the occupied Palestinian territories. The organizations have announced that if their demand is not met, ...

( 2023-10-18 19:32:22 )

The month of Ramadan is the month of God

شهرُ رَمَضانَ شَهرُ اللّه عَزَّوَجَلَّ وَ هُوَ شَهرٌ یُضاعِفُ اللّه‏ُ فیهِ الحَسَناتِ وَ یَمحو فیهِ السَّیِّئاتِ وَ هُوَ شَهرُ البَرَكَةِ؛ Prophet (saw) states: The month of Ramadan is the month of God, and it is the month in which God increases goodness and cleanses sins, and it is a month of blessing and bounties. Bihar ...

( 2023-10-18 18:31:17 )

God forbid, one is afflicted with spiritual maladies and diseases of the soul

Remember, my dear, that in the same way as there is health and sickness for the human body and remedies and cures for correcting it, there is also health and disease and remedies and cures for the human soul as well. Its health and well-being is observance of moderation, it lies in treading the human path, and sickness and affliction is the result of deviating from the right path of humanity. The spiritual maladies and diseases are a thousand ...

( 2023-10-18 10:15:11 )

Opening Al Baqee Site in Al Abbas Holy Shrine

The technical staff in Internet Division in al Abbas Holy Shrine established al Baqee website. There was a ceremony for this occasion on Tuesday, 6 Shawwal 1432, 06/09/2011 AD, with the anniversary Eighty-eight of destruction of the graves of Baqee. The ceremony was attended by Secretary General of al Abbas Holy Shrine, sayyd Ahmed al Safi, board members and heads of departments, representatives from offices of religious authorities and the ...

( 2023-10-18 07:07:40 )

Effort and Struggle

Dear friend: try to be a man of strong will-power and resolution, so that you may not go from this world as a person without resolution, and hence rise on the day of resurrection as a brainless-being, not in the form of human being. For the other-world is the place where what is hidden is unveiled and secrets are exposed. One's audacity to commit sin, converts him little by little into a man devoid of will-power, and takes away the noble essence ...

( 2023-10-17 22:53:20 )

Thousands of Bahraini protesters condemn violent regime crackdown

Bahraini anti-regime protesters have gathered in a village near the capital Manama to press for their demands and condemn the violent crackdown by security forces.Thousands of demonstrators gathered for the second day in the northern village of Muqsha, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) west of Manama.The Bahraini opposition groups that organized the demonstration said the protest would continue until February 14, the first anniversary of the popular ...

( 2023-10-16 16:50:34 )

Professor Ansarian: avoiding the polytheism of the time

The idols which is now in the world and has attracted all people to it and has become the criteria of life on the planet is Dollar; the thing which has massively damaged the economy of our country in this 40 years; this man –made paper is now being worshiped by all ...

( 2023-10-16 09:27:31 )

Pilgrims Assemble at The Holy Mount of Arafa

More than two million Muslim pilgrims assembled Monday at the holy Mount of Arafat and its surrounding plain on the peak day of the world's largest annual pilgrimage, the Hajj. By the dawn, tens of thousands of pilgrims had already set off from their camps in the valley of Mina, some 10 kilometers northwest of Arafat. Saudi authorities said permits have been granted to 1.8 million foreign pilgrims, with a further 200,000 or so issued to ...

( 2023-10-15 19:04:11 )

Imam Ali (as) states: Imam Hussein will be killed in an unconventional way

ليُقْتَلُ الْحُسَيْنُ قَتْلاً، وَإِنِّي لَأَعْرِفُ تُرْبَةَ الْأَرْضِ الَّتِي يُقْتَلُ عَلَيْهَا قَرِيباً مِنَ النَّهْرَيْنِ. Amir al-mu'minin, Imam Ali (AS) states: Indeed, Imam Hussein will be killed in an unconventional way, and I know the soil of the land where he will be killed, which is near two streams of water. Source: Kamil ...

( 2023-10-15 15:54:09 )

Grand Imam of al-Azhar calls for Shia-Sunni gathering; urges Sunni scholars to issue Fatwa prohibiting Shia killing

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - The Grand Imam of the al-Azhar mosque, Egypt's top Muslim authority, has called for a meeting of leading Sunni and Shia scholars in the capital, Cairo.The call by Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb aired on Egypt's state TV on Wednesday evening came at the close of a series of programs about Ramadan. Al Tayeb called on Sunni scholars to issue a Fatwa (Religious edict) prohibiting the killing of Shia Muslims. He also called on Shia ...

( 2023-10-15 01:29:30 )

2 German Translations of Quran Published

--Two translations of the holy Quran into German have recently been published. The Anaconda Verlag Publications has published a translation of Islam’s holy book rendered by German Orientalist Friedrich Rückert. Another translation of the Quran has come out by the Herder-Verlag Publications. It has been rendered into German by Ahmad Milad Karimi with an introduction by Bernhard Uhde. It had first been published in 1772 in the German town ...

( 2023-10-15 00:33:49 )

Smallest Golden Quran Made in Reaction to Quran Burning in the US

Having been extremely overwhelmed by the Quran desecration in the US, I decided to create a Quranic masterpiece in reply. This is according to Ra’en Khanzadeh, Iranian Quranic artist, whose latest work has just been unveiled in Dubai’s Arab Tower Hotel with the presence of the Supreme Leader’s representative in the UAE and head of IRI’s chancery in Dubai. He told IQNA that it took him 13 months to carve the entire holy Quran on gold ...

( 2023-10-14 20:25:41 )