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SHAFAQNA –“Marriage is not a contract which tus women into men’s slaves. Marriage does not strangle their lives and deny their usual habits and moods. Women are human beings, and their humanity must remain in tact throughout their married lives, just as men are human beings and their humanity must remain in tact throughout their married lives. God the Glorious and Exalted has based the nature of men and women’s lives together on a foundation of love and mercy, so as to increase the feelings of unity which tie the couple together. Therefore, it is not a question of a contractual obligation towards a partner for life, as is understood from the phrase ‘life partner’. The issue must be underst...

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SHAFAQNA –Kind residents have been donating food packages to organizations helping needy and homeless people, as well as refugees and asylum seekers living in Peterborough, Britain. A number of donations have been made by organisations across the city to help residents who are struggling to afford food through the summer months. Members of the Hussaini Islamic Centre in Burton Street, Peterborough, donated a large number of parcels of food to the Red Cross, located in Priestgate in the city centre. A spokesman for the centre said these food packs are for local refugees and asylum seekers as a part of the holy month of Ramadhan. The packs contain all the essential ingredients in preparing fo...

SHAFAQNA –With no official mosque, Cuban followers of Islam do their best to observe the holy month and practise their religion. They speak little Arabic and don’t have a real mosque, but Cuba’s small Muslim community practises the faith and will quietly mark the end of Ramadan as best they can. In Havana’s old quarter, one can see a green and white minaret on top an old colonial-style building. It is here where Cuban Muslims have gathered for the past year to pray. Inside, the walls of the prayer hall are decorated with Arabic calligraphy and a Palestinian flag. The copies of the Quran have been translated into Spanish. “Salam aleikum,” says a smiling man named Javier as he welcomes visito...

SHAFAQNA –About 200 Oklahoma Muslims spent a recent afteoon sorting and packing food to help Oklahomans who struggle with hunger every day. The aual Ramadan Day of Service at the Regional Food of Oklahoma, held June 25, was part of the Oklahoma Muslims Care campaign, a program designed to facilitate community service opportunities for Oklahoma Muslims. The campaign highlights the commitment to service toward the betterment of all in the state, and participation helps Oklahoma Muslims honor their beliefs by giving back to those in need. “In the month of Ramadan, when we are abstaining from food and drink, we are encouraged to think of how we can help those in need. It is for that reason that...

SHAFAQNA –The question might sound childish … maybe even ignorant but what is Ramadan? By that I do not mean the mechanics of fasting – I am referring here to the religious symbolic of the holy month of Ramadan. Of all the many duties and obligations set upon us by God, only the month of Ramadan belongs to Him, and Him alone. While prayers, and charity serve us, as they help coect us to Islam by tangibly anchoring us in our faith, Ramadan remains God’s …. But that does this even mean? Many I’m sure will see in Ramadan an exercise in humility, a right of spiritual passage which enables us to experience empathy and mercy for others. A fasting of both the soul and the flesh, Ramadan also allow...

SHAFAQNA – Invited to break fast with the city’s Muslim community, residents of Mankato city in Miesota attended the first iftar at Envision Labs on Sunday, June 26, building relations between the religious group and the community at large. “We’re opening our hearts and minds and saying this is our holy month and we want people to come and celebrate,” Fardousa Jama of the Somali Community Barwaaqo Organization said of the event. Sunday marked a first for the city in that non-Muslims were invited to share in a communal breaking of fast at Envision Labs. The event, a brain child of Jama, included providing food for roughly 200 people from in and out of the Muslim community. Bringing in the re...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –The key difference between the two sects originates from the question of who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as leader of the developing Muslim community after his death. While Suis believe that Abu Bakr, the father of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s wife Aisha, was chosen by a few people as the first caliph (Muslim ruler), Shiites believe that Ali, the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, was ordained by Allah (SWT) to be the successor of the Prophet. This was declared by the Holy Prophet to all Muslims by the Pond of Ghadeer upon retu from his last pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca. Furthermore, Shiites believe that second to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Ali and hi...

SHAFAQNA –Every Ramadan, Republican lawmaker Dan Kildee prepares to observe one day of fasting with his staff during the holy month, the tradition which has brought the office closer. “It’s something we kind of look forward to now,” Kildee said. “It’s a good way to understand one another, to at least take a moment to experience the ritual.” The tradition started when the Michigan Democrat was working during his election campaign for Congress in 2012. Working around the clock, he realized that one of his Washington DC staffers, Ghada Alkiek, was keeping up while fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “It’s, like, 18-hour days and, at one point we said we have to try this,” Kildee, 57,...

SHAFAQNA –For millions of Muslims around the world, the holy month of Ramadan is a time for reflection and abstinence. It is a time when those who follow Islam are supposed to clear their minds of distractions and dedicate more of their attention to their faith. It is probably more noticeable for those who are not from traditionally Muslim countries, because Ramadan is adhered to more strictly by so many on such a large scale. But Islam is not the only religion that fasts – indeed many faiths at some point in the calendar require their followers to offer some level of abstinence. Fasting tends to be from food, drink, smoking, and acts that give pleasure such as sexual intercourse and listen...

SHAFAQNA-Members of the Harford County Muslim community in the US State of Maryland will celebrate and reach out to their neighbors of all faiths by hosting a traditional Ramadan iftar, or fast-breaking dier, on Saturday, June 25 at Masjid Al-Falaah. The event, which is open to the public, will get underway at 8 p.m. Masjid Al-Falaah is located at 3014 Philadelphia Road in Abingdon. This year Ramadan started on June 6. “As more than one and a half billion Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan by fasting and appreciating the blessings given to us, it is equally important for the American Muslim community to reach out to our neighbors as an example of true Islamic ideals,” said Dr. Rehan Khan, t...

SHAFAQNA –Controversy brewed Monday night over a message posted by a Pesylvania church and the response to that message from a school board member. At the board’s meeting Monday, several people asked the member, Matt Jansen, to resign. “And I just want to offer you my absolute, 100 percent deepest apologies,” Jansen told the crowd at the outset of the meeting. Recent controversy stems from his reaction to a church sign at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Dallastown. The message, which has since changed, reads, “Wishing a blessed Ramadan to our Muslim neighbors.” “I came by,” Jansen said, “and I was disturbed by the sign, quite frankly, and I just reacted to it.” He tweeted his disappro...

SHAFAQNA –Braving long summer hours without food and water, a group of British Muslims participated on Sunday, June 19, in the aual Mersey Tuel 10k to raise funds for the homeless. “Alhamdulillah!! volunteers completed the Mersey Tuel 10k whilst fasting,” Muslim Event in UK page on Facebook reported. “It was brilliant to see the support of other fellow ruers and event organizers, who were taken aback by their efforts.” In the 11th ruing of the event, More than 3,000 ruers ran through the Wallasey Tuel on their way from Liverpool to New Brighton. Going underground and underwater, participants passed through the Wallasey tube of the road tuel and eventually made their way to New Brighton. For...

SHAFAQNA-People in Regina, the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, were able to enjoy something not every community in the world is able or willing to accomplish. Under a large tent in downtown’s Victoria Park, dozens of people from all different backgrounds and beliefs shared a meal together. The Ramadan tent Iftar diers are being organized by the Intercultural Dialogue Institute Regina. Iftar is a meal that is eaten at the end of a day’s fast during Ramadan. Organizers said Ramadan represents “a time of fasting charity, prayer, and unity.” Ayhan Ozturk, chair of the Intercultural Dialogue Institute Regina, said he wants to share Ramadan with everyone, regardless of their...

SHAFAQNA –The Islamic Center of Hamburg, Germany, will host a Quran reading session on the 15th of the holy month of Ramadan (June 21). The center aounced that the program will be organized on the occasion of the birthday aiversary of Imam Hassan (AS) in Mid-Ramadan. It has also plaed a Quranic competition titled “Divine Ceremony” in the holy month, the wiers of which will be awarded in the Quranic session. Tarteel recitation of Quran, recitation of Iftitah Supplication, religious speeches, Quran teaching classes, special ceremonies on Ghadr nights and mouing ceremony on Imam Ali’s (AS) martyrdom aiversary are some other programs of the center during Ramadan. The aual fasting month of Ramad...

SHAFAQNA –The US govement has waed its citizens both at home and abroad to be alert to an increased risk of terror attacks, as Isis and its followers seek to mark the Muslim holy month with violence. The State Department alert cited an audio message by the Isis spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, which called on jihadists to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America.” In a report issued by the State Department-led Overseas Security Advisory Council, officials said the threat was made more credible by the fact that there were three deadly attacks after Adnani made a simi...

SHAFAQNA –#GIVE CAMPAIGN’ TO FEED THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE IN CITIES ACROSS THE WORLD AS MUSLIMS BEGIN MONTH OF RAMADHAN ·18 June shall see over 15,000 homeless being fed across 30 cities worldwide ·Global #Give campaign launched by inteational organisationWho is Hussain? ·New fundraising drive launched to pay for live-saving surgeries for orphans in war ravaged in Iraq. Who is Hussain?the social justice and action group led mostly by young people around the world, have today launched a new campaign entitled#Give. The organisation hopes to motivate and encourage people across the world to take action by doing good deeds which spread compassion and create positive ...

SHAFAQNA – A millions of Muslims across the world have pulled together to mark the holy of Ramadan Daesh militants have worked to desecrate and sully the sacred month – hoping to pervert Islam’s holiest fasting ritual to score political points. A month of reflection, Ramadan was prescribed to Muslims so that they could lea to draw closer to the divine, and reflect upon their actions. Together a month for compassion and contrition, Ramadan is for God, and God alone. Still many have been those, who, throughout the centuries have attempted to lead Muslims astray, so that, they, tyrants of this world, would grow in wealth and power. Today those tyrants have cloaked themselves of Islam, proclaim...

SHAFAQNA-Imam Reza (AS) said: One who recites one verse from the Book of Allah, The Almighty, The Glorious, in the month of Ramadan, is like one who has recited the entire Holy Quran in the other months.(Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 93, p 344) SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleDua Mujeer / The Supplication of The Lenient Supporter Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –For a second year in a row, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has exempted troops participating in the war on Yemen from observing the religious obligation of fasting during Ramadan. Last year, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah al-Sheikh had issued a fatwa excluding the soldiers stationed on the border with Yemen from fasting. On Tuesday, the Wahhabi figure issued a similar decree, which expanded the exemption to all the troops waging war at Riyadh’s behest, Saudi daily Okaz reported. “You are caught between the two good deeds of jihad and fasting. Therefore, anyone who can afford it should fast and anyone who caot is exempted and can break their fast, doing penance on other days,” read the decree...