Two British Muslim organizations have joined hands in a clean-up campaign in South Tyneside, northeast England, offering upstanding citizen role models for fellow citizens in order to create a more pleasant environment for people of all faiths. “It went really well. We had about 20 volunteers but we had a lot of words of encouragement from passers-by as well," Project Manager Abu Tayeb told The Chronicle on Sunday. “We have done ...
Reply: Marriage {nikah} is an agreement between a man and a woman. Sometimes this bond has a permanent effect and the contract {‘aqd} does not have time limit, and sometimes its effect is temporary and its time limit is fixed. Both kinds are recognized as legal and the only difference between them is that one is “permanent” and the other is “temporary”. In other aspects they are the same. The conditions below render ...
Now we will discuss the Quranic verses and after we clarify what traditional commentators have explained about the verses, then, with the help of traditions which have been narrated on this topic and the edicts of the religious jurisprudents on this issue, it will become clearer. The verses relating to the modest dress are found in Surah Nur and Surah Ahzab. We will mention all of them.We will begin our discussion with the verses from Surah Nur. ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia Atallah Hanna visited Wednesday morning the Jerusalemite youths who were injured over the past three days while trying to prevent Israeli settlers and forces’ break-ins into al-Aqsa mosque.During a press conference held shortly after his visit to Makassed Hospital, Archbishop Hanna denounced Israeli escalated attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque and sit-inners.He stressed the urgent need ...
Hypocrisy: The Ugliest Trait
Hypocrisy is Undoubtedly one of the most detestable qualities. It is in man’s nature to accept happiness and freedom; and to upgrade itself to the highest degree of dignity. Yet when man becomes polluted with lying, violation of promises and breaching of agreements, hypocrisy finds itself a wide arena and is ready to penetrate such polluted natures. Hypocrisy advances in these circumstances until it eventually ...
Women: Qur'anic examples of outstanding human beings
There have been many discussions about the Islamic view of women and I have spoken in this regard on many occasions. I have repeatedly said that in the Holy Qur'an women have been mentioned as examples of believers and disbelievers. This is an interesting point.Allah the Exalted mentions the names of two women as examples of outstanding and pious human beings - not examples of outstanding and ...
9th day of Zilhajjah is called The Day of Arafah while the night between Zilhajjah 8 and 9 is called Night of Arafah. There have been reported different acts to be performed on these occasions. Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH ) said: “your Adiyah (prayers) are fulfilled and repentance is accepted in this night.” He who spends this night in worship will be given the reward of 170 years of worship.To take bath and recite Ziarat-e-Imam Hussain ...
Whenever Imam Zeinul Abideen (A.S) gave alms, he would kiss his own hands. When they asked him the reason, he said: “Before alms is put in the hand of needy man, it is placed in God’s hand.”Imam Ali (A.S) has said: “When you give alms to a needy man, the alms giver should kiss his hand, for God receives the alms before it is put in the hand of the needy man, since God is the Receiver of the alms.”The Holy Prophet ...
ENMITY AND HATRED
Why Should We Not Forgive? Setbacks Caused by Enmity Imam Sajjad’s Reaction to Those Who Mistreated Him
Why Should We Not Forgive?
Man undoubtedly cannot avoid society and live in seclusion. He is a dependent creature whose needs know no limit. The fact that man is socially dependent conforms to his nature and needs, enabling him to live in the shadows of cooperation. Social life has various requirements that limits man ...
rand Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi Amoli, senior Shia jurisprudent, met with members of the national conference on legal alliance of the Muslim world and said a great asset to reach Islamic unity is logics highlighting the high capacities of seminaries to reach solidarity. He said,” Unity is not achieved merely through preaching or recommendations” and added a prerequisite to resolve disagreement is to distinguish the nature of ...
Sudan, since the rise of the Islamic Salvation Front to power in 1989, has established very strong ties with Iran and the resistant Palestinian groups and hosted such movements as Hamas and Islamic Jihad on its soil. Due to its Islamic and honorable stances, Sudan has undergone a great deal of difficulties. Despite the economic problems and domestic crises the nation has been suffering from, the country's support for Palestine is considered to ...
With Palestinians raging against Israel’s encroachments on their rights, faith and lands, many have seen the premise of a third Intifada. And yet this Palestinian resistance bears the features of a grander, broader movement - one which stands against fascism.Violence in Israel has reached new dizzying heights, so much so that hateful mobs have turned on their own, soldiers have shot their own nationals over mistaken identity and settlers ...
Character of Woman
Chapter 1
The issue of the woman's character has a leading role in recognising the woman in every creed and religion, and every thought course can, through the portrait it displays for the woman's character, give its opinion and lay bare its stance in respect of other affairs of the woman. In other words, all other subjects like: woman's rights, her social participation, moral perfections and veil and adornment are relevant ...
67000 Moroccan women who didn't know how to read and write took part in a literary program in mosques across the country. After learning how to read and write in the three-month intensive program held by the country’s Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Ministry, the women together wrote a copy of the Quran. At the end of the program, each of them wrote one word of the Holy Book in Othmani style of Arabic writing. After the entire Quran was ...
Leaked documents containing names, birth dates and phone numbers of ISIS members are very likely to be genuine, German federal police said on Thursday. German federal police spokesman Markus Koths said there was "a very high probability" that documents reported by German media as identifying German terrorists were genuine. "The Federal Criminal Office has knowledge of this type of document of the so-called ISIS" said police spokesman Markus ...
Tanya's Journey to Islam: I can say my life before Islam was very sporadic, with not too much grounding, no roots.I lived with my mother. My mother doesn’t have a strong religious background. She comes from a Christian background. Because of my mother’s and I lack of compatibility, I had to live in the street for a couple of months where I was then found and I was placed into a foster care.I was in three different foster homes before ...
Recently, in an irrationally anti-Islamic move, the French National Assembly approved the controversial bill on banning the wearing of the Islamic veil or burqa in public places. Of the 557 MPs, 335 members voted in favor of the bill. If approved in the fall by the Senate and then by the Constitutional Council, the law would impose a fine of 150 euros or $190 on any Muslim lady wearing the burqa outside her home in public, when the fact of ...
1. Amr Bi ’L-Ma‘Rūf & Nahi ‘Ani ’L-Munkar: Bidding The Good & Forbidding The Evil
Islam: A Social Religion.Islam is not a religion in the spiritual sense of the word only; it deals with all aspects of human life. Islam also seeks to create peace and harmony in the social life of a Muslim society. It has instituted ways to promote good and prevent evil in the society. The most important social principle of Islam is known as “amr bi ...
Birzeit University’s administration, Workers’ Union and students on Thursday organized a sit-in at the university campus in Birzeit town, north of Ramallah, in solidarity with Palestinian hunger-striker detainee Mohammad al-Qiq. The protestors called for immediate and unconditional release of al-Qiq, a former Birzeit University student and head of students’ council, who has been on a hunger strike for 85 days in protest of ...
