The Bahrain Airport authorities banned on Wednesday November 9, 2016, deputy Secretary General of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Fatima al-Halwaji, from leaving the country. Al-Halwaji is one of many rights and political activists whom the authorities ban from leaving the country. The most recent case was that of activist Monzer al-Khour, who was banned from traveling last Saturday by the King Fahed Bridge borderline ...
The approach to choosing a spouse is much different in the angelic spirit of Islam, when compared to those religions or schools of thought which have become void of the spirit of revelations. Islam does not allow a believing Muslim man to choose any woman as his wife. Neither does it allow a believing Muslim woman to choose any man as her husband. This is so because there are certain things to be considered in marriage, such as their well-being ...
The physicist, Fritj of Capra, a Noble Prize winner, wrote this about humanity’s tragedy:
“It is a multidimensional, complicated crisis that is affecting our life, health, means of livelihood, quality of environment, social relationships, economy, technology and politics…For the first time, we find ourselves on the brink of the total extinction of man and every form of life on this planet. Five hundred million people suffer from ...
On the 23rd day of Ramadan the surviving families of martyred border guards and holy shrine defenders met with the Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei. During the gathering, the Supreme Leader opened up by speaking on the concerns of the people, namely on the recent barrage of threats from the US government and their allies. He reassuringly stated, "Don't take all the huff and puff of the newcomer in the US seriously. The US has always ...
Purpose of Religion
Question: Did religion come to imprison us or to set us free?
Brief Answer
Freedom, from the point of view of religion, can be studied under two headings: spiritual freedom and socio-political freedom. From the spiritual perspective, man’s essence or immaterial self is free from corporeality, materiality, and material characteristics. It is nostalgic of its place of origin, the realm of the Dominion ...
Women's Cooperation in Social Life
Chapter 4
The arena of social life being the third area of search and strival of son of Adam for attaining to perfection, in which a great portion of aptitudes and abilities are put in practice and flourishing, as they be effective also in realising individual maturities and success in family life. Further the social life is becoming nowadays much more miscellaneous and extensive than it was in the past. ...
For four years, the American Muslim youth community center has organized an annual halal food festival to draw Muslim families and also to enhance friendship ties with non-Muslims. This year’s festival, held Saturday at Rowland Park, drew vendors from Central Jersey, New York City and even as far away as Ohio. Thousands of people attended and they included many local and immigrant Muslims as well as non-Muslims. Crescent Foods, a company ...
A Russian investigative body says the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group was involved in an attempted attack against a mosque in the country’s Siberia Province last year. The militants had tried to attack a mosque in an unnamed Siberian town, said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on Thursday. The committee said it had completed the probe and submitted the case to a court. There were no further details on how the ...
Purpose of Creation
Question: What is the purpose of creation? Please state rational proofs in this regards. If the purpose is to perfect ourselves, then why did not Allah (awj) create humanity perfect to begin with?
Brief Answer
Allah (awj) is an unlimited being who holds all perfections. Creating (bringing to existence) is munificence (jamal) and Allah (awj) is munificent. His munificence necessitates that He grant ...
he ever- rising crescendo of Islamophobia in the West seems to be reaching to an alarming proportion now. This can only be compared to the Anti-Semitism of the Nazi Germany that began its tide in the late 19th century and slightly subsided in the mid 20th century, but meanwhile succeeded in completely crushing the Jewish community and throwing them out of Europe. Now the same tide seems to have turned against Muslims in the form of a growing ...
ATTENTION
A hundred percent co-ordination and congeniality is not possible, since every individual has his own mind, spirit, morality and character, specific environment and family and has a certain distance and difference from the other one. But an attempt should be made to lessen and reduce this distance to a minimum, so that the two spouses are as close to each other as possible.
A LESSON-GIVING EXAMPLE
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A Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds early Sunday morning after a wall, where he took shelter from bullet fire, was hit by an Israeli jeep, crushing him.Eye-witnesses said the 22-year-old youth Abdullah Iyad Ghaneim breathed his last after he was crushed by a wall that he took as a cover from Israeli bullet fire.Ghaneim breathed his last in the clashes that burst out shortly after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rolled in ...
Kurram Agency Pakistan Peoples Party President Hamid Hussain Toori was shot dead by assailants here on Tuesday.The motive behind the target killing is yet to be ascertained as the assassinated leader of the PPP had no enmity with anyone.The PPP Kurram Agency chapter has announced three-day mourning over the murder. Mr Toori was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard amid moving scenes.Mr Toori was at his residence when someone called him on his ...
Representative of grand Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq visited Anglican Church in France stressing the religious leader’s support for the Christian community. Hujjat-ul-Islam Seyyed Javad Shahrestani, representative of grand Ayatollah Sistani, top Iraqi Shia jurisprudent in Iran, met with Christian leaders in French Anglican Church stressing dialogue as the best way to know others, maintain global moderation and also avoiding extremism. ...
Reflecting the diversity of the South African Muslim community, a Ramadan expo will be held this weekend to introduce the Islamic culture in the African country. “The expo’s aim is to inform, educate and uplift the entire Western Cape community, not only Muslims,” organizer Salaama Davids said on Sunday. Davids was talking about Ramadan expo that will be held in the capital, Cape Town, to display food, spices, clothes and art ...
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi explained that Western governments are supporting and strengthening ISIL, the most brutal group in history, as a means to achieve their evil goals. During the 19th part of his nightly Ramadan lecture series on the subject of Du’a Makarim al-Akhlaq (Imam as-Sajjad’s “Supplication on Noble Moral Traits”) being broadcast on Iranian television, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi said that in ...
My journey toward Islam started out about 30 blocks from the Pacific ocean in Long Beach, California. My parents divorced when I was 4 years old and , shortly after, my father moved to another city and left me, my twin brother and my younger sister alone to be raised by my mother.My mother worked hard and tried to pay the bills, but she was a single mother with no education or job experience and was forced to take very low paying jobs. ...
Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth; a likeness of His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass, (and) the glass is as it were a brightly shining star, lit from a blessed olive-tree, neither eastern nor western, the oil whereof almost gives light though fire touch it not – light upon light – Allah guides to His light whom He pleases, and Allah sets forth parables for men, and Allah is Cognizant of ...
Testifying and Judging of Women
In all verses regarding testimony or witnessing the mention of the “one man, two women” policy is only regarding transactions. All other verses are general and state two witnesses with no references of gender made. The prolonged verse on testimony is directed at transactions of business affairs. Why is the ratio scaled, and would this be the case for all witnessing or testifying?
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There are a lot of ideas and theories which are wide spread among the people and which rank the woman in a level less than that of the man. Also, the people incline to believe that such ideas are demonstrated by the divine doctrine; as a result, the Muslim person does not dare to face them, thus conceiving that to do so is an opposition to the doctrine. Yet, the truth is absolutely not so. Among these theories are the following.1-Is the Woman a ...
