Ahlul Bayt News Agency - It was obvious that the ruling Bahraini family used the Sunni extremist ideology as a sectarian tool against the Shiite majority in the country demanding to have a share in governing the kingdom. At first, the possibility of having it (Sunni extremism) pose a serious threat locally was ruled out as the authorities claimed to use their capabilities to control and contain it.It wasn't long; however, before matters took ...
Imam Hussein (A) started his journey to Karbala. Let our Kids Know under what circumstances and due to what reasons he had to make his journey towards Karbala with the help of this easy to understand animated Film on Journey of Imam Hussein (A) to Karbala.
Imam Mahdi (A), mourns for Imam Hussein (A) every day - night and day - and he weeps blood for his great grandfather, as seen from his declaration he makes in his ...
As this piece is written, act one of the Gulf of Mexico tragedy continues, agonisingly, to unfold. We, the people of the region, keep hoping to leave behind the terrifying explosions and ghastly loss of human life, the dread invoked by black jets billowing endlessly from below and the floating oil spreading over an ever-growing area.
We want to move on to act two, which will feature many dirty shovels, corpses of birds and people crying over ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Tehran, Iran -- Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has warned the government of Azerbaijan to stop destroying the country’s mosques.
“If the destruction of the mosques in Azerbaijan continues, we will issue a fatwa (religious decree) of resistance, and we will declare that anyone who is killed in this path is a martyr,” Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said in Qom on Wednesday.
“We have officially ...
Grand Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani, Supreme Authority of Shiite World, met and spoke with Hujjat al-Islam Raeisi, Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi.
Grand Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani at this meeting while pointing to the existing capacity of Mashhad and the historical record of this holy city in the development of the Islamic Revolution and religious principles stated, “With planning and continuous work, the holy city of Mashhad must be converted to ...
An Indonesian Shi’ite scholar has criticized Saudi Arabia for supporting Takfirism and the spread of religious extremism in his country saying: "In Indonesia, the Takfiri phenomenon has been extensively supported by Saudi petrodollars."Muhammad ibn Alawi, a Shi’ite scholar in Indonesia, emphasized that the cause of the sudden rise of the Takfiri movement throughout the Islamic world is part of a Zionist scheme to cause Muslims to ...
Islamic Centre for Youth in Netherlands
-- An Islamic centre for the youth and university students has been established in the Netherlands by the country’s Union of Islamic Centers.
Representatives of different branches of Union of Islamic Centers in the Netherlands in a meeting in Amsterdam discussed the plans for the center’s activities.
They decided to hold further meetings to discuses strategies for Islamic activities at the ...
The document, which is the result of the fourth Catholic-Muslim colloquium on interreligious dialogue, includes a call for basic human rights to be protected by law, a pledge of solidarity with all those in need, a rejection of all forms of proselytism and a focus on the right of young people to an education that is “respectful of diversity”, reports Vatican Radio.
At a time when we have become used to the destruction caused by wars, ...
The five major Bahraini opposition parties (al-Wefaq, al-Ikhaa', Waad (Promise), al-Watani al-Wehdawi (National Unionist), the National Gathering) launched Saturday night a week-long protest in presence of a huge turnout of protesters.The event, entitled "Steadfast and Will Not Bow" was announced in a gathering at the Freedom Square in the town of al-Makshaa, aiming at paving the way to revive the Pearl Square protest on February 14.Also, the ...
Yemeni troops killed 17 Shias in overnight clashes in the rugged mountainous north as the army stepped up its all-out offensive, the official Saba news agency reported on Thursday.
As Yemen's military offensive against Shia resistance enters a fifth week, the army claims to have recaptured several Houthi positions in the north.
The military said Wednesday that after two days of heavy fighting in Sadaa province that included air strikes, ...
Bahraini officials complained that Reuters lacked balance in its reporting during the Saudi-backed regime crackdown on opposition protesters. We interviewed Professor Rodney Shakespeare, chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, in London, regarding Bahrain's clampdown on the media and how the regime there is becoming increasingly isolated. What follows is the text of the interview (also supported by Richard Becker) Q: I am going to ...
The campaign was years in the making and now the purpose more pressing.
Gain Peace announced a campaign of billboards and postcards to share their Islam, a peaceful message they say has been overshadowed by violent acts and inflammatory statements by politicians.
“Our hearts ache, our hearts cry, our hearts bleed because of the violence which is going on around the world,” said Ahmed.
“My heart is bleeding for the people in ...
AjlulBayt News Agency - KARACHI: It was the perfect crime. So perfect that it had to be video-taped. Saad Aziz was to be the cameraman. He was supposed to record the ‘execution-style’ killings of the 45 members of the Ismaili community in the bus attack in Safoora Goth.Aziz, one of the brains behind the massacre, was among the six assailants who boarded the ill-fated bus at around 9:10am on May 13. The victims, including 17 women, ...
Shabestan news agency’s Harmazgan wing reported that Hujjat ul Islam wal Muslaimeen Ali Akber Ansari the advisor of cultural, research and academic affairs of Islamic preaching department of Harmazgan said that, this one-day seminar is taking place in Bandar Abbas on 9th October, where the Shia and Sunni scholars and figures of the province will participate. This joint seminar of the Shia and Sunni scholars is taking place in accordance with ...
Religious leaders, scholars and government officials from China and other countries urged Muslims to resist religious extremism and condemn terrorism at a symposium.
Participants from Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan gathered in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to share their insights on Islam and experience in combating terrorism.
The symposium is hosted by the China Religious ...
World Shia Muslim population 10-13%;
New Study Estimates Global Muslim Population at 1.57 Billion
A new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion. Released today by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, Mapping the Global Muslim Population offers ...
Report describes prejudice against Muslims in the West
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a report on August 5 describing the human rights challenges of Muslims living in Western countries.
The report focuses on the problems of Muslims living in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Australia. The ...
Zayn al-Din al-Juba’i al’Amili (1506–1558) was the Second Martyr, and the author of the first Sharh ofShahid Awwal‘s Al-Lum’ah ad-Dimashqiya(The Damascene Glitter) titled as Ar-Rawda al-Bahiyah fi Sharh al-Lum’ah ad-Dimashqiya (الروضة البهيّة في شرح اللمعة الدمشقيّة ) (The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter).He was one of the greatest shi’a scholars. He ...
Speaking at a ceremony held to mark the translation’s release, head of the Nahj-ol-Balaqa International Foundation Ayatollah Seyyed Jamaleddin Dinparvar said the foundation had been seeking to have the book in French for more than 30 years.
Fortunately, French Muslim woman Hassina Ahmed bin Abdurrahman undertook to do the rendering, he said.
Ayatollah Dinparvar noted that Nahj-ol-Balaqa has so far been translated into 20 languages and that ...
