A prayer leader and an employee of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) were shot dead in separate incidents in District East of the city on Tuesday.
The prayer leader, 42-year-old Maulana Habibur Rehman, was shot dead inside Siddiq-e-Akbar Masjid in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
The incident occurred when Rehman was sitting in his office within the premises of the mosque after Zuhr prayers.
Police said at least two unidentified men ...
Ayatollah Sobhani said: “The anniversary of the destruction of Jannat al-Baqi is a second Ashura and Muslims around the world, especially Shi’as, must express their hatred toward the perpetrators of this crime and convey it to the people of the world.”
On the 90th anniversary of the Saudi destruction of tombs of four of the twelve Imams buried Madinah’s Jannat al-Baqi cemetery, Grand Ayatollah Ja’far ...
Iranian Intelligence Minister Sayyed Mahmoud Alavi informed on Tuesday that several terrorists' plots to hit Iranian targets to undermine public turnout in the Quds Day Rallies in Iran were foiled by his ministry forces, adding that half a dozen suspects have been arrested in connection with the plots."Six terrorists who were planning to conduct terrorist attacks during the Qud Day rallies and Qadr nights in the Holy Month of Ramadan have been ...
Saudi Arabia has arrested a senior cleric from the country’s minority Shia community as the kingdom continues to impose more restrictions on religious activities of people in its oil-rich east.
Reports on Tuesday suggested that Saudi authorities had arrested Sheikh Mohammad Hassan al-Habib, a prominent cleric in the Safavi region in Qatif. Locals said Habib, along with three of his companions, were arrested on Saturday and were ...
People in Bahrain have rallied in condemnation of the Al Khalifah regime’s decision to strip Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim of his citizenship, and voice their support for the distinguished religious scholar.
Dozens of people took to the streets in the northwestern village of Diraz, situated about 12 kilometers (seven miles) west of the capital, Manama, to express their outrage at the measure against Sheikh Qassim.
Sheikh Qassim ...
There is nobody in the world who doubts the fact that over the past thirty years, America has declined more than thirty levels in terms of power and global credibility. Everybody knows this. Even the Americans themselves admit this. For example, veteran American politicians make fun of the recent American governments and politicians and tell them, "You dragged America down from that position and into these conditions". And they are right: ...
The representative of Ayatollah Isa Qassim in Iran referred to the recent events occurring in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and the victories of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq as well as the victories of the Syrian army in Aleppo, saying these victories have led to the defeat of Saudi Arabia on these fronts and they have now increased their efforts in Bahrain and Yemen.
He explained that in order to keep religious scholars and clerics out ...
What was the death toll in the killing fields of Jammu? There are no official figures, so one has to go by reports in the British press of that period. Horace Alexander’s article on 16 January 1948 inThe Spectator is much quoted; he put the number killed at 200,000.To quote a 10 August 1948 report published in The Times, London: “2,37,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated – unless they escaped to Pakistan along the ...
Boko Haram gunmen stormed a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state near the border with Cameroon killing seven people, resident said Saturday, while the army reported two soldiers died as well as 16 militants.
"They opened fire on homes as we slept and killed seven people before carting away our food supplies and drugs from the only clinic in the town," Rann resident Abba Abiso said. The Nigerian army confirmed the attack in a ...
- Leader of the Islamic Revolution has told a meeting on Wednesday the US is the mastermind behind crises in ME which seeks to push aside Palestinian ...
Tarek, an Egyptian builder and handyman long resident in Cyprus, simply could not comprehend why people claiming to be Muslims could explode bombs in the centre ofBaghdad, killing and wounding scores of innocent people.
Period of truce
According to the Koran, “Fighting in [Ramadan] is a grave sin” (Chapter II, verse 217). Consequently, mounting prohibited attacks that kill the elderly, women and children, who are meant to be ...
Speaking on the special programs for the holy month of Ramadan, A Nigerian expert said, " attempts have begun last month to carry out legal prosecuation in the supreme court of Nigeria regarding the Zaria incident in order to protect the rights of Shia citizens,"
Abdallah Tanko had in interview with Hawzah News on the latest issues regarding Sheikh Zakzaky's conditions during the holy month of Ramadan.
Ramadan in Nigeria
Speaking on the ...
A source from the Ministry of Interior revealed that two people were killed and nine others were injured in a bomb blast that rocked an area near a popular market in southern Baghdad early on Monday morning. “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded near a popular market in al-Latifiya area in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding nine others,” informed the source. Adding further the source said, ...
For Rotorua's Muslim community Ramadan is a time to share and what better way to do that than by sharing a meal with the city's homeless.
Members of the community prepared food for those in need at Love Soup Rotorua this week before eating together to show "they [homeless] were not invisible".
Shiffa Harunani said Muslims were coming to the end of Ramadan, a religious month where they fasted from sunrise to sunset.
They tried to fast with both ...
Held every year on the last day of Ramadan – as to link the sanctity of the fast with Muslims’ duty to speak Truth in the face of Deceit, Al-Quds Day was founded by the late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; both a rallying cry of solidarity, and a sign of hope.
It is Imam Hussain who said: “It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.”
Through Al-Quds Day it is once ...
The army’s presence is of grave concern since the rally is led by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), members of whom have been repeatedly targeted by the armed forces. Over three days in December 2015 more than 1000 people were killed as well as property and religious spaces destroyed by the armed forces in Zaria. Leading members of the movement were shot and imprisoned without charge.
Earlier this year IHRC called on the International ...
