Jihad Al-Nikah (Arabic: جهاد النكاح, often translated as Sex jihad or Sexual jihad) is a controversial concept that refers to Sunni women allegedly offering themselves in sexual comfort roles to fighters for the establishment of Islamic rule.[1]
Allegations of this practise is related to the Tunisian government's war effort against Al Qaida linked Islamic terrorism in the mountainous Jebel ech Chambi region bordering Algeria. The ...
The Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (city of California) issued a statement this week denouncing a statement from the highest ranking religious authority in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Abdul Aziz al-Shaykh, who said Iranians are not Muslims because they are “descendants of Majus” – a term that refers to Zoroastrians, a monotheistic religion predating Christianity and Islam that was the dominant religion in Persia before Arab ...
A year ago, Indira Kaljo, a female Muslim basketball player, chose to wear the hijab, the Islamic headdress for women.
She took the decision following an "awakening" during a charity trip to earthquake-hit Haiti.
But the Bosnian-American player quickly realized she would not be able to play professionally in Europe as basketball's governing body had forbidden the use of any type of headgear, including hijabs, turbans or yarmulkes, during ...
Ramadan is a special time for us, and we want to make it a special time for the community,” Elsayed Elmarzouky, president of the Islamic Center and a longtime spokesman for the Islamic community, told Reading Eagle on Saturday, May 20. “It’s very hard not to touch any food or drink, but practicing this tradition honors God,” Elmarzouky explained. “It’s a test of faith. We are not forced to do so, but we ...
Existence of spirits within animals and its differnce from that of the Human Being
Question: Do animals possess souls and if so how does the animal soul differ from the human soul?
Brief Answer
Before embarking on the answer to this question, it must be noted that the answer provided below is based on the school of Transcendent Theosophy, i.e., Sadrian philosophy. In this light, the answer will be expounded under two ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 30 people are feared dead and over 100 injured after two subsequent explosions hit a densely populated area of Kurram Agency's Parachinar city Friday evening, Sabir Hussain, the medical superintendent (MS) of the District General Hospital, Parachinar, said.
The MS has appealed for help, saying the hospital is not equipped to handle the large number of casualties.This is the second major bombing incident ...
Resurecction
Question:Please discuss the issue of resurrection in detail both from a rational and a natural or instinctive perspective. Please refer to important books regarding this topic.
Brief Answer
The answer to this question will be clarified by examining three philosophical perspectives—that of Masha’ (Peripatetic Philosophy), Ishraq (Illuminationist Philosophy), and Hikmat al-Muta’aliyah (Transcendental ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A total of 47,210 racist crimes were reported across the European Union in 2013, with an anti-racism organisation warning that this is only the “tip of the iceberg”, as many crimes go unreported.Muslim women, people of African descent/black Europeans and Roma are reported to be most at risk of racially motivated crimes.The report, the first of its kind which examines racist crimes based on civil society ...
The Suffi are considered by some as the inner or mystical dimension of Islam They are not considered a sect of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a Sūfī , though some senior members of the tradition reserve this term for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition. Another common denomination is the word dervish. The word, 'Sufi' has been ascribed various ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Muslim family in the US state of Virginia said burglars tore up their Quran and scrawled anti-Muslim graffiti on a wall in their apartment.
The family said that they returned to their Fairfax County apartment on Monday after a weekend away to find their apartment broken into.
The couple, Mahrukh and her husband Shoaib, asked that they be identified only by their first names.
In addition to the Quran, ...
The Razavi International Calendar of 2018 proposed and ordered by the Astan Quds Razavi Center for International Affairs was produced and published by the Islamic Reseach Foundation of Astan Quds ...
Habits
Similar to stereotypic movements, a habit is a learned behaviour that a person repeats so often that he or she begins to do it without even thinking about it. Certain habits can be helpful but some may seem to serve no particular purpose.
• Helpful habits - brushing teeth before going to bed or buckling your seatbelt when getting into a car.
• Habits with no purpose - hair twirling, thumb sucking, nail biting... etc.
Some habits ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Khaled Nabi was an Apostle who lived in the era between Jesus Christ (a) and Prophet Mohammed (s), and like Prophet Mohammed (s) he was a descendant of Prophet Ismail (a).
Allah says in the Holy Quran, And indeed We have raised in every people a messenger (saying): “Serve Allah and avoid all false deities.” So among them is he who Allah has guided, and among them is he upon whom the straying was ...
Imam Sadiq (Pbuh) said:
Most benefits come from women.[Vasa'il-al-Shia, v.14, p.11]
In Islam, woman are paid great attention and they are treated as admirable creatures. How the women is viewd in the human past and how they are viewd in Islam v.s western countries ? is answered and analysed by Professor Hossein Ansaryan in his book “ the structure of family in Islam”. The following text is an exemplar.
Mental Deviation of ...
Conceit Leads to People’s Resentment
Self-love is a basic human instinct. It is an essential factor for survival, for man’s vast relationship with the universe rises from this instinct. Nevertheless, despite it being a fruitful power from which many noble traits arise, if this natural source is exaggerated, many sins and various immoralities will stem from it. The first real threat to manners is extravagance in self-love. For it can reach a ...
WHY ISLAM HAS NOT PROHIBITED DIVORCE
Here a few other questions arise. If divorce is so loathsome and so disliked by Allah, why has it not been totally prohibited by Islam? Islam could at least lay down certain conditions for its validity. In that case anybody who wanted to divorce his wife, would have been judicially bound to justify his intended action before a court of law.
The second question is: What does the sentence, "Out of all ...
My name is Janna. I’m Greek.
I was born in Germany and I grew up in a very strict traditional Greek Orthodox family.
We grew up almost as other Muslim families with other children. Our families wanted to guarantee that we will be brought up in a Christian way, in the Orthodox way.
We always went on our vacations all together and we never split up for vacations. So family vacations for all were always very nice and especially our very first ...
Smiling and laughing can have a positive effect on your well-being, but as you make the transition from child to adult, you often tend to lose the habit of indulging in these behaviors. A good example of this is a children’s playground: You often see the kids running around, constantly laughing and smiling as they enjoy living in the moment, while the parents sit around the edge, full of the stresses that modern life can bring, with the ...
The sixth Greater Sin is to be disobedient to one's parents as expressly mentioned in the traditions from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and the Pure Imams (a.s.). These have already been quoted in the first chapter. A tradition of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) says that the greatest sins are shirk and to be disobedient to one's parents. The seriousness of disobedience to parents as a Greater sin can be gauged from the fact that the Holy Prophet ...
