“Some 30 Qur’ans will be unveiled and inscribed on Iran’s National Heritage List,” Golestan Palace director Masoud Sharifi told ICHTN.
“The Qur’ans belong to the Golestan Palace treasure and date from 1,000 years ago until the Qajar era,” he added.
Renowned Iranian and Muslim calligraphers have worked on the manuscripts which will be unveiled during the holy month of Ramadan. The auspicious month is when Muslims believe the first ...
15 Bahraini police officers are to be charged with torturing doctors at Salamaniya hospital who were arrested for treating protesters last year.Nawaf Hamza, chief investigator in the chief prosecutor's office, said in a statement he was officially making known that members of the forces of law and order would face torture charges resulting from the unrest.He said the charges were being brought following an inquiry launched on the basis of a ...
"If it said that all chickens had to be labeled in a certain way if the birds had been battery hens, or if he had proposed that meat had to be labeled in a certain way if the animals had been kept in dreadful conditions before being killed... I would at least regard him as consistent," Sir Gerald Kaufman told.
MP Knight has earlier told MPs that halal and kosher practice of slaughtering cattle, lambs and chickens is "rife".
Under current ...
At the time of his martyrdom, Imam Mujtaba (AS) said to Imam Hussein (AS): Take three of my children to Karbala, I also want to be your partner in Karbala. This means connecting to Imam Hussein(AS).
Over 1,000 terrorists have arrived in the Yemeni city of Aden to join the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the war-torn country and fight against the Ansarullah fighters. “Hundreds of armed militants who came from other provinces of Yemen and from abroad started their training in the Salah al-Din camp in Aden,” an unnamed Yemeni security source told Russia's Sputnik news agency on Wednesday. The Yemeni source said that the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency, The Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, expressed his warmest congratulations and best wishes to the entire Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, praying to Almighty Allah that He may make this Eid one of good and hope and that He may grant Muslims all over the world happiness and blessings.
The following is the text of the message of congratulation:
The ...
Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, will begin this week as Muslims observe the Islamic New Year most likely on 15 October, depending on the moon sighting.
Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, will begin this week as Muslims observe the Islamic New Year most likely on 15 October, depending on the moon sighting.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has declared a public holiday on 15 October for the Islamic new year, ...
UK statements supportive of Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa family are nothing new, but the tone and timing of Tuesday's comments by foreign secretary Philip Hammond are the worst and most cynical yet.
Less than 24 hours before rights activist Nabeel Rajab received a six-month jail sentence for a tweet criticising Bahrain's security forces and at a time when opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salmon remains illegally detained, Hammond claimed Bahrain's ...
According to the report, the airstrikes completely destroyed the convoy and caused a huge fire, whose thick and black smoke darkened the sky. At least eight terrorists were killed in the attack and eight others sustained injuries.
Russia has repeatedly said it has evidence showing Turkey was involved in the smuggling of oil from areas held by Daesh in Iraq and Syria. It also says that some 2,000 oil tank trucks belonging to Daesh have been ...
Governor of Makkah Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, on behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, washed the Kaaba on Saturday.
Governor of Makkah Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, on behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, washed the Kaaba on Saturday.
A number of Muslim scholars, government officials, dignitaries and diplomats attended the event, which takes place twice a year on the 15th of Shabaan (the month ...
According to Ahlul Bayt (A) News Agency – ABNA.ir – The office of Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi announced a special time for answering to English users for online answering to religious questions.
In order to facilitate for the users to access their answers easily and rapidly, department of the Estefta'at of His holiness's office has prepared for honorable imitators thispage to gain their answers directly (by chat).
The scholars are ...
One of France’s highest courtssuspended the burkini ban in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet on Thursday, holding that the ban violated civil liberties including freedom of religion and movement. The ruling sets a precedent that could be used to challenge bans in other municipalities.
On Tuesday, an image of French authorities forcing a Muslim woman to disrobe on the beach sparked outrage on social media. It was the second such incident in ...
Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of Swiss capital Bern to express their anger over the blasphemous movie and anti-Islam cartoons.The protesters carrying placards and banners strongly condemned insults to Islamic values on Saturday.The president of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland, Nikola Blawnshow who organized the demonstration, blamed US officials for producing anti-Islam sacrilegious movie during the rally.He ...
QUETTA: Armed men kidnapped about two dozen passengers from two Karachi-bound coaches and killed at least 19 of them in Khad Kocha, a mountainous area about 70km southeast of the provincial capital, in Mastung district, on Friday night.“The armed men killed 19 of the passengers after taking them to the nearby mountains,” Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti said. He said the attackers were wearing uniform of security ...
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Teaching the Quran should be part of formal education in all Muslim countries, the son of late Abdul-Basit Abdus-Samad, renowned Egyptian Quran reciter, said.
In an exclusive interview with IQNA, Sheikh Yasser Abdul-Basit Abdus-Samad added that views on teaching the Quran as a subject should change and that it ought to be considered an essential course in schools.
He said that as well as schools, private Quran ...