Qom Seminary Teachers Association strongly condemned silence on Bahrain

The Jame-e Modarresin-e Qom (the Qom Seminary Teachers Association) has strongly condemned the silence of senior Muslim clerics on the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bahrain. In a Wednesday statement, the Iranian clerics urged influential Muslim scholars to help prevent the massacre of innocent people in Bahrain and to end their silence on the “bloody” events in the Persian Gulf island nation. The statement read that ...

( 2022-07-19 01:12:43 )

Amnesty Condemns Bahrain Authorities for Arrest and Torture of 50 Shia Activists in Prison

Amnesty International (AI) has condemned the imprisonment of Shia activists in Bahrain, describing the move as “appalling”. Amnesty Condemns Bahrain Authorities for Arrest and Torture of 50 Shia Activists in Prison (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Allegations that the Bahraini authorities used electric shocks and other torture methods to extract confessions from members of a group of 50 Shi’a activists are just one factor ...

( 2022-07-18 19:04:30 )

Burning Quran Would Be An "Outrageous And Grave Gesture"

The Vatican body responsible for dialogue with other religions expressed "great concern" about the plan by Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it would be a "disrespectful, disgraceful act." She was speaking Tuesday night at a State Department dinner in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Her statement came a day after the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David ...

( 2022-07-18 19:04:30 )

Editing and publishing the book of “Islam, an easy religion” is a useful and necessary action.

Hojjat al-Islam Shams said: Editing and publishing the book of “Islam, an easy religion” is a useful and necessary action. And he also said that while preaching the religion we have to value studying of the subjects more. Qom- DarolErfan institution, the researcher and the active of the seminary school said: researching and editing of this book in this era is a useful, precious and necessary action. According to The Public ...

( 2022-07-18 16:59:23 )

Experts Call To Set Up Islamic Finance Regulatory Framework

That is the view of BBK investment banking arm Capinnova Investment Bank chief executive officer Jamal Hijres. \"An important effort towards achieving international consistency was the creation of two multilateral institutions, the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions and the Islamic Financial Services Board. \"The growth of such institutions will definitely improve and propel the industry at a faster pace. ...

( 2022-07-18 10:47:30 )

Professor Hussein Ansarian: Requesting the lord of the universe to accept our deeds based on our abilities and capacity

If the Almighty God compares his servants with the divine prophets (A.S) and the infallible Imams (A.S) who are the great men of the path of worship, the ordinary servants of Almighty God will certainly fail and are condemned. Therefore, the Almighty God assesses the deeds of every servant based on his abilities. The weak servant who says his prayers sometimes attentively and sometimes wearily or the servant who has become so weak by fasting in ...

( 2022-07-18 09:43:45 )

Quran Competition Marked by Selecting Best Contestants

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iraq’s Ministry of Education announced the names of selected contestants who participated in the country’s Quran reciting and memorizing contest for school students. “The participants from the holy city of Karbala won 11 titles out of the total 16: Karar Baghir, Mohammed Abdollah, Ahmad Sabri, Ahmad Kadim, Javad Kadim, Mohammed Sabri, Qasim Shahid, Zahid Habib, Majid Amin, Badri Abbass, Ali Javad” said Amar ...

( 2022-07-18 09:43:45 )

Imam Khamenei's Arabic account suspended by Twitter

The act is done, while people and networks linked to Takfiri and terrorist groups are working freely and without any restrictions in this network. Twitter has not provided any response on the reasons behind the act so far and now the following account is replacing the suspended account: https://twitter.com/ar_khamenei. It is noteworthy that the Arabic account has been subject to cyber-attacks by malwares several times ...

( 2022-07-18 08:41:16 )

Nahj-ol-Balaqa Weeks to Be Held in 4 Countries

Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Speaking at a press conference on August 10, Mehdi Mostafavi said the Nahj-ol-Balaqa weeks will be organized on the auspicious occasion of the Ghadir Feast (late November). He said the weeks will include seminars and exhibitions aimed at spreading the Alavi teachings and the messages of Nahj-ol-Balaqa. Elaborating on ICRO’s other activities and programs, he said it plans to hold the Imam Reza (AS) festival ...

( 2022-07-18 02:36:33 )

Airports in Yemen close, flights suspended amid intensified Saudi strikes

- Airports have been closed and flights suspended across Yemen amid intensified Saudi Arabian military strikes against the impoverished ...

( 2022-07-17 23:29:13 )

Thousands attend anti-U.S. rally in Pakistan

Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; On Thursday, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was convicted after a jury trial in a U.S. federal court, of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. The verdict sparked protest across Pakistan with condemnation by the government and almost all opposition parties, rights groups, students, lawyers and members of civil society. Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a powerful group of ...

( 2022-07-17 18:11:06 )

Police Officer Killed in Roadside Bombing in Afghanistan

At least one policeman was killed and eight other people were injured in a roadside bomb explosion Sunday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar. A vehicle transporting provincial court staff toward their office in the provincial capital of Pul-i-Alam hit the bomb, a local official said, adding that an investigation has been launched into the incident. The wounded included Haqiq-ur-Rahmand Haqmal, the head of the provincial court ...

( 2022-07-17 13:02:31 )

Muslim Americans protest Shia killing in Nigeria

A large number of Muslim Americans have held a demonstration in New York to condemn the Nigerian military’s massacre of Shia Muslims. According to Press TV, the demonstrators on Friday gathered in Midtown Manhattan near the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations and called for the release of senior Nigerian cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. The protesters chanted slogans and carried placards condemning the Nigerian military’s ...

( 2022-07-17 02:38:24 )

Air Strikes Egypt's Right to Self-defense - Foreign Minister

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Monday said airstrikes carried out by the Egyptian military on Libya were part of his country's right to self-defense. "Following the video that was released, a striking and accurate reaction was needed," Shoukry said, in reference to footage released by takfiri group ISIS showing the grisly execution of 21 Coptic Christian hostages. "They [the airstrikes] are part of Egypt's right to self-defense in ...

( 2022-07-17 01:36:18 )

Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi forces seize ISIS central telecom network in Sharqat

- Iraqi pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units, has managed to discover and neutralize the central telecommunication network of the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group in the central-northern province of Salahuddin.According to a report published on Iraq’s al-Masalah news website, the intelligence unit of the forces found the network, including a collection of devices designed for long-distance communication, ...

( 2022-07-17 00:29:05 )

Imam Khamenei describes efforts to foil enemies’ moves as sacred

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned that a major “front of enemies” are seeking to destroy the Islamic Establishment, describing efforts to foil the enemies’ moves as sacred. “Today, a major front of wicked enemies is confronting the Islamic Establishment and the objective of all of them is putting an end to or hollowing out the Islamic Republic,” the ...

( 2022-07-16 13:00:50 )

Four Shia men laid to rest in Karachi

Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), KARACHI, Pakistan -- Protest were reported in various areas of the city on Sunday during the funeral processions of four members of the Shia community - two men martyred on Saturday and two victims of the Ashura blast. According to details, the funeral prayer of Hammad Hussain, 21, who was gunned down on Saturday in the Rizvia police precincts, was offered at the Rizvia Imambargah with two victims of the ...

( 2022-07-16 11:54:25 )

Professor Hussein Ansarian: Those who love Imam Hussein (as)

Those who love Imam Hussein (as) will reach the spiritual perfections and position by attending the mourning gatherings for Imam Hussein (as) and weeping over the tragedies that befell upon him. This is the easiest and fastest way to God's proximity.

( 2022-07-16 06:48:27 )

Kuwait is not Saudi Arabia; We Will NOT Dispatch Our Troops to Bahrain to Kill Innocent People

Kuwait will not dispatch its troops to Bahrain to help quell the anti-government protests in the country but it is making efforts to mediate in the disputes, an Arabic newspaper has reported. "I will leave today (Wednesday) to Bahrain to hand over a letter from His Highness the Emir to his brother King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa," the daily al-Jarida quoted Kuwaiti Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah as saying on Thursday. The ...

( 2022-07-16 05:44:16 )

Saudi News disproved; “Sham al-din Mohammad Sharaf al-din” is Alive

oday, Tuesday morning August 30th, Saudi media reported the death of “Sham al-din Mohammad Sharaf al-din”, Chairman of the Union of Yemeni scholars. However this news was disproved as “Sham al-din Mohammad Sharaf al-din” is not even in Yemen and is currently on a trip to Moscow. He has travelled to Moscow, Russia to negotiate the possibility of stopping the political and military intervention of Saudi Arabia in Yemen with ...

( 2022-07-16 00:30:17 )