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SHAFAQNA –Wikileaks has exposed an email that US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent to an unknown account on 11/30/2015, detailing the ways Israel could marginalize the Iranian threat by overthrowing the govement of Dr. Bashar Al-Assad. Clinton outlines in the first paragraph of her email, how to directly deal with the growing threat of Iran’s nuclear program: “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.” As one of the main politicians calling for the removal of Assad by force, Hillary Clinton has time-and-time again revealed her hawkish nature when it comes to any exteal threat to Isr...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Whenever the child of Adam (AS) passes away, his/her book of deeds is severed except for three groups: The scholar who the people benefit from his deeds; ongoing charity (for example, participation in building a Mosque, school, hospital, orphanage, etc.); and a righteous child who prays (Dua) for his parents [1]. [1] Sharhe Osule Kafi, Vol. 2, Page 3. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about the conditions that a person must have to be eligible to be in charge of public property. Question: Who is in charge of public property? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: It is the responsibility of the fully qualified Mujtahid, who is trusted by general public, and according to Wajeb precaution must also be the most leaed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleThe ruling about the temporary or permanent marriage of a Muslim man or woman with Baha’is/The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi’s answer Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about obtaining a qualification by cheating. Question: If by cheating, a qualification is obtained which is effective in our lives, what is the religious duty? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: Cheating is Haram but if the ability and expertise for carrying out the job are at the acceptable level, the salary is Halal. But if you do not have the necessary level of expertise for a job given to you, it is not allowed to accept that job. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA- IntroductionThey ask you about intoxicants and games of chance. Say: In both of them there is a great sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is greater than their profit. And they ask you as to what they should spend. Say: What you can spare. Thus does Allah make clear to you the communications, that you may ponder.(Holy Qur’an, Sura al-Baqarah, 2: 219)O you who believe! intoxicants and games of chance and (sacrificing to) stones set up and (dividing by) arrows are only an uncleaess, the Shaitan’s work; shun it therefore that you may be successful. (Holy Qur’an, Sura al-Ma’idah, 5: 90)The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of i...

SHAFAQNA –UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is being urged to publicly reject Saudi Arabian “propaganda” claims conceing three young men on death row, amid fears the protestors are set to be executed in the country – despite being convicted as juveniles. Following recent activity and comments on influential Saudi Arabian Twitter profiles, human rights groups are growing increasingly conceed over the future of Ali al-Nimr, who was sentenced to death for his role in anti-govement protests in 2012 — while he was just 17 years old. Recent comments have suggested Ali al-Nimr could be facing imminent execution, while two other men, Dawoud al Marhoon and Abdullah al Zaher — who were 17 and 15 at ...

Blair Imani meeting Bill Clinton. Credit: Courtesy of Blair Imani SHAFAQNA- On April 13, 2016, barely a month after I started observing hijab, I attended an event called “Conversations with Bill.” It was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, one of the first I had attended, and I was so excited to hear from the former president. http://en.shafaqna.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bill.mp3 Unfortunately, before the event could even get going I was referred to as a terrorist by a comfortably bigoted attendee. I already felt out of place. I was one of the only black people present, one of the youngest attendees, and the only woman wearing hijab. My eyes filled with tearsand I asked one of the organi...

SHAFAQNA –Recent fighting in South Sudan has forced 37,491 people to flee to Uganda in the past three weeks, averaging more than 4,000 a day in the past week, the United Nations refugee agency waed today. “To put this in context, more refugees have arrived in Uganda in the past three weeks than during the entire first six months of 2016, when 33,838 came there in search of safety,” Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva. Yesterday, an estimated 2,442 refugees were received in Uganda from South Sudan. More than 90 per cent of arrivals are women and children. “The new arrivals in Uganda are reporting ongoing fig...

SHAFAQNA –Brazil’s Muslim community on Friday voiced support for an open investigation into suspected terrorists who officials say were plaing attacks at the upcoming Olympic games. Sheikh Jihad Hassan Hammadeh who heads the ethics committee of the National Union of Islamic Entities, expressed conce about police actions against the group of 10 suspects who allegedly swore loyalty to Daesh on social media apps and plaed to acquire weapons to stage attacks in Brazil and overseas. There must be concrete evidence and transparency in the investigation to ensure that citizens and groups are not persecuted unjustly, Hammadeh said. “The arrest of the 10 should have been aounced in a more cautious w...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –America’s Orthodox Jewish community staged a demonstration yesterday,Monday, July 11, in front of the Israeli Consulate inManhattan, to protest against theState of Israel’sforced drafting of religious young men into their army. The demonstration was organized by Rabbinical Alliance ofthe United StatesandCanada. More than 1000 people from various communities inNew YorkandNew Jerseyattended, some coming from as far as two or three hours away. Over 100 leading prominent rabbis were seated on the platform. Many speeches were given, including two by rabbis fromJerusalem. The oldest participant wasChuna Ste, a Holocaust survivor over the age of 90, who came with great...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani answered a question about using Zakat al-Fitr for cultural groups in Mosques. Question: Can the collected Zakat al-Fitr be used for the expenses of cultural and artistic groups in Mosques (to arrange classes for scientific, religious and other purposes)? The Grand Ayatollah Vahid: The Wajeb precaution is that Zakat al-Fitr is paid to the poor and must be Shia Athna Ashar, otherwise if a believer caot be found, in that case can be paid to those who are not the enemy of Ahlul Bait (AS). Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleWhen Islam speaks … Next articlePayment of Zakat al-Fitr into the account of the...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shahroodi answered a question about payment of Zakat al-Fitr. Question: On the Day of Eid, I decided to pay Zakat al-Fitr to a poor person in my family. If I know his account number, can I pay (Zakat al-Fitr) into his account without his knowledge or not? The Grand Ayatollah Shahroodi: For paying Zakat al-Fitr to a poor person, it is not necessary for him to be informed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleUsing Zakat al-Fitr for cultural groups in Mosques/the Grand Ayatollah Vahid’s answer Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA-This is) an account of the Imam after the Commander of the faithful, peace be on him, the date of his birth, the evidence for his Imamates the period of his succession, the time of his death, and the place of his grave. (It also provides) a brief outline of the reports about him. The Imam after the Commander of the faithful, peace be on him, was his son al-Hasan, the son of the mistress of the women of the worlds, Fatima, daughter of Muhammad, the Lord of messengers, may God bless him and his pure family. (Al-Hasan’s) kunya was Abu Muhammad. He was bo in Medina, on the night of the middle day of the month of Ramadan, three years after the hijra (624). His mother, Fatima, peace be o...

SHAFAQNA –The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) strongly condemns the govement of Bahrain’s increasing use of citizenship revocation as a tool to punish political dissent, rendering many people stateless, thus leaving them vulnerable to human rights violations. In 2016, BCHR documented the revocation of 30 citizenships by the criminal court, in addition to 12 revocation sentences being upheld by the court of appeal. Within the last three days of May 2016 alone, 33 citizens, including minors, have been rendered stateless by both primary and appeal courts as the Bahraini govement’s judicial crackdown on dissidents intensified. Following the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, the govement of Ba...

SHAFAQNA –If Prophet Muhammad was sent as God’s last messenger, a final reminder of God’s Words onto His creation, Muslims have since worked very hard at dividing which was meant to stand united. From the moment Prophet Muhammad was commanded to speak those first words of knowledge: “Read! In the Name of your Lord who created man, out of a clot (of congealed blood). Read (Proclaim), and your Lord is the Most Generous, who taught by the Pen, taught man that which he knew not,” men have ambitioned to stifle the very light Islam was sent to shine forth. And since none could stood in the way of Islam, then it is Muslims who became designated target. If you care to look back at history you will ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: There are three things (three signs; three characteristics) which if exist in any person, that person is a hypocrite even if he/she claims to be Muslim, performs Salaat, fasts or performs Hajj and Umrah: the one who lies at the time of speaking; and when he/she promises, breaks that promise (does not fulfill the promise); and when something is trusted (given in trust) to him/her, breaches that trust [1]. [1] Nahjul Fasaha, Page 422, Hadith 1280. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleMoving Perspectives – Shafaqna Exclusive Interview with Salah Lamrani Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Representational image. Getty Images SHAFAQNA-Two lawsuits filed in Califoia on Monday claim that Muslim women were discriminated against in separate incidents because of their religion and for wearing the hijab. One of the suits claims that police in Long Beach forcibly removed a suspect’s headscarf while another suit alleges that a group of women were kicked out of a Laguna Beach coffee house for being Muslim. According to the complaint against the city of Long Beach and its police department, Kirsty Powell and her husband were pulled over by two officers while driving home in May of last year. She was subsequently arrested on two outstanding warrants ─one linked to her sister allegedly fa...

SHAFAQNA- Amnesty Inteational issued a press release today calling for an urgent investigation into the “slaughter and secret burial of 347 members of a Shi’ite religious group in mass graves by the Nigerian army.” Their statement follows testimony yesterday by a Kaduna State govement official admitting that the military presided over the dumping of 347 civilians into mass graves after being killed by soldiers in Zaria. SaharaReporters reported yesterday that Balarabe Lawal, the Secretary to the Kaduna State Govement, stated at the public hearing of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the massacre that the 347 civilians were deposited into secret mass graves. Amnesty Inteational’s Nige...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Hadi (AS) who said: Disobeying father and mother will cause early death [1]. [1] Beharul Anwaar Vol. 71, Page 84. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleThe aim and the philosophy of the prophetic missions Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: There are four things which destroy the heart and the soul as well as help to grow the hypocrisy like water causes the growth of the tree. One of these, is to listen to useless and idle things [1]. Jaber ibn Abdullah has narrated from the Prophet (PBUH) who said: Satan was the first person who sang and the first who lamented. When the Prophet Adam (AS) ate from the forbidden tree, (Satan) sang a song and when Eve (AS) was ousted from the paradise and came to the earth, Satan remembered the blessings of the paradise and lamented [2]. In another narration, the Prophet (PBUH) said: Avoid listening to playing music and singin...