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SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about smoking at the place with a “smoking is forbidden” sign. Question: In some buses and other vehicles is written “smoking is forbidden”, is smoking allowed in such places? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: if this case is depending on the implicit condition that the passenger in that vehicle has accepted, and/or such a thing is the govemental rule which after entering the country must be observed, it is necessary to act accordingly and doing the opposite is not allowed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleSouth Sudan agrees to 4,000 more UN peacekeepers Next articleHouthi forces captur...

SHAFAQNA –The Houthi forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard, seized a number of points inside the Midi Desert near the Saudi-Yemeni border today, advancing as far north as the Jizan Region of Saudi Arabia. According to Al-Masdar’s Yemen War correspondent, Tony Toh, the Houthi forces and their allies killed 41 fighters from the Saudi-led Coalition on Monday after seizing a number of sites from the latter. Making matters worse for the Saudi-led Coalition, the Houthi forces continued their advance in the Najran Valley, as they capturednew points near the provincial capital. The Saudi-led Coalition’s recent losses in the Jizan and Najran regions has taken a toll on their morale, as they ...

SHAFAQNA- It is clear from the Holy Qur’an and the traditions that performance of Hajj (Pilgrimage) is obligatory on every person who has attained puberty and has the means mentioned below.Hajj is one of the basic principles of Islam; its performance is one of its essentials, and its non-performance is a grave sin. Denial of the obligatory nature of Hajj is blasphemy (kufr). Allah states in the Holy Qur’an, “.. and pilgrimage to the House is incumbent upon men for the sake of Allah, (upon) every one who is able to undertake the jouey to it; and whoever disbelieves, surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above any need of the worlds”. (3/97).Sheikh Kulayni has reported that Imam as-Sadiq (a.s.) h...

SHAFAQNA IN COLLABORATION WITH FORT RUSS –The most important information event of Friday was Vladimir Putin’s interview with Bloomberg, in which the Russian president touched on key issues on the global information agenda. I am sure that dozens of publications are going over this interview and discussing every question and answer in it, but I want to propose to you, dear friends, to look at this from a different angle. The point is that John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg who interviewed the Russian president, is not merely a joualist, but one of many joualists who has participated for many years in meetings of the Bilderberg Club as a full member of this shadow interest gr...

SHAFAQNA –The Saudi women who need their fathers, husbands and brothers’ permission to benefit their legal rights of working, studying and traveling, are now using social media in a bid to end males’ rule over their life. The Saudi women have created #سعودیات_نطالب_باسقاط_الولایة (#StopEnslavingSaudiWomen ) to emphasize that the govement should hear the women’s voice and respect their rights, adding that the progress of any society is evaluated by the situation of women. They have also reminded the Saudi rulers of regional women’s freedom to do whatever the Saudi females are baed. On the opposite side, the make opponents of the demand insist the necessity for respecting Saudi Arabia’s laws,...

SHAFAQNA – Question: Considering that some sites published words attributed to you regarding the approval of (Fususi Gnosticism), please express your views about this case. The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: Regarding the Islamic belief (Islamic teachings), I believe in the same method of the great Imamiyah scholars which is based on the verse of the Quran, and narrations from Ahlul Bait (AS), and I do not approve the above mentioned method (Fususi Gnosticism). Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleCan you be a practising Muslim and identify with the Australian way of life? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –Muslims from across Norway gathered on the island of Utøya to pray for victims of the Norway attacks. Six years ago in 2011 34-year-old Anders Breivik shot and killed 69 people on the very same island. The Island is owned by Norway’s Labour party and most of Breivik’s victims were members of the Labour party’s youth wing. On August 19, 2016, the country’s oldest Muslim Youth association hosted their aual youth retreat in union with the Labour party’s youth wing. During the retreat, the Muslim youth held a special prayer service in remembrance of the Norway attack victims and pledged to be law abiding and loyal Norwegians. The three days event was attended by representatives of the...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about cursing the person who commits sins openly. Question: Is it allowed to curse the person who commits some sins openly? The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi: Cursing a believer is not allowed even according to Wajeb precaution, the believer who commits sins openly (Faseq). Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Fayyaz answered a questions about downloading from inteet without permission. Question: Is downloading film, music or game from the inteet with assumption that the owners do not agree with it, considered to be the right of people? Does it matter if the owner is Muslim or not? The Grand Ayatollah Fayyaz: Taking possession of people’s rights which is against the law, is not allowed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleA Fatwa by the Grand Ayatollah Shobairi about cursing the person who commits sins openly Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –If they know what is good for them, German Muslims should be stoutly, if silently, supporting the partial burqa ban aounced by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s govement. And French Muslims should be agreeing, even if only sotto voce, with Jean-Pierre Chevènement’s call for “discretion” in public spaces “at this difficult time”. Chevènement, a former Interior minister, has been appointed head of the Foundation of French Islam. The organisation, created to better integrate France’s Muslim population, is to oversee aspects of mosque operations, including domestic financing and imam training. It is likely to be an influential body. There is a simple reason to support Merkel’s partial burqa ...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about the real repenting. Question: How does real repenting is achieved? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: The reality of repenting is to regret committing the sin, and therefore it is said: The regret (remorse) is the same as repenting and the real regret is always accompanied by decision to abandon the sin and not to retu to it. And the real regretful person must avoid the past sins, and if his sin is the right of Allah (SWT), must ask forgiveness from God, and pay Kaffarah (financial penalty) or to compensate for it. And if it is the right of people, must either ask the owner of the right for forgiveness or pay his right back, and if ...

SHAFAQNA –If the world has become desensitise to human suffering, there are still crimes so tragic and uecessary, so violent in nature and abominable in the tragedy they carry, that we caot help but pause. Should you have missed it somehow War has held Yemen hostage since March 25th, 2015, a day which saw Saudi Arabia unilaterally move against its impoverished neighbour in the name of “democracy building.” Yemen’s war you were told then, was a necessary evil, a democratic mean to end a popular movement Riyadh cared little for, since it spoke in negation of its religious extremism – Wahhabism. As Riyadh weaved its narrative the world sat back, gleefully deaf to the cries Yemen let out in its...

SHAFAQNA – In an interview conducted in the sidelines of Yemen conference this August 20-21, 2016Andrew Smith slammed the UK govement for providing the Saudi regime with military equipment, training, and intelligence against Yemen. “The UK has been absolutely central to bombing of Yemen. It has provided training, weaponry and uncritical political support to Saudi regime. It supported this war on Yemen in every possible way – it has even stood by as Saudi Arabia organized a humanitarian blockade. That humanitarian catastrophe has been supported and fuelled with British weapons and political support. Since the bombing began the UK has sold £3.3 billion worth of weapons to the kingdom.This inc...

SHAFAQNA- Octopuses are notorious escape artists, able to squeeze and squish themselves into and around nearly any obstacle they encounter. In an ode to these crafty cephalopods, researchers have created the first completely soft-bodied robot, dubbed the “octobot.” The palm-sized machine’s exterior is made of silicone. And whereas other soft robots have had at least a few hard parts, such as batteries or wires, the octobot uses a small reservoir of hydrogen peroxide as fuel. When the hydrogen peroxide washes over flecks of platinum embedded within the octobot, the resulting chemical reaction produces gas that inflates and flexes the robot’s arms. As described online today in Nature, the ga...

SHAFAQNA – The ups and downs of the world pass quickly and all of us will be shattered under the wheels of the time. What I have noticed when studied the conditions of various sections of the society, lead me to this conclusion that the rich and powerful suffer from inteal, mental and spiritual sufferings more than other sections, and because they have not fulfilled many of their wishes and desires, their sufferings are more painful and heart-rending [1]. [1] Sahifeyeh Imam, Vol. 18, page 510, Farazy az Nameye Imam be Farzandash Seyyed Ahmad. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleThree groups which their deeds last after death Next articleEvidence of the war on children o...

SHAFAQNA –The War on Children [Yemen], broadcasted on August 23 2016, on ABC’s television programForeign Corespondent, shed a long awaited light on the silent and deadly war on the children of Yemen. Yemen’s war, which has been inaccurately painted as civil war by mainstream media is actually a war of democratic restoration and rebuttal of foreign diktat – and more particularly Saudi influence. It all began in early 2015 when the Ansarallah movement, also known as the Houthis enacted popular will by assuming authority over Sana’a govement. It is following calls for reforms, and the enactment of the National Dialogue that President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi chose to resign not once but twice, ...

SHAFAQNA-Reporting his father, Imam al-Sadiq (A.S) says, “A needy came to the Holy Prophet asking for help. The Holy Prophets asked, “Is there anyone here to give an interest-free loan?” a man from the Ansar rose up saying, “I have such a loan.” The Holy Prophet said, “Give four vessels of date to this man.” the man did so and came to the Holy Prophet after sometime asking for the payment of his loan. The Holy Prophet said, “We will pay it in the coming days.” the man came another time, hearing the same words. But when he came for the third time, the Holy Prophet smiled and said, “Is there anyone here to give an interest-free loan?” a man rose up saying, “O Allah’s Messenger! I have it.” Th...

Commentary of the Quran (Chapter 2:60)By: Mohammad Sobhanie The Miracle of Water Gushing Forth in the Desert! بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِوَإِذِ اسْتَسْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ فَقُلْنَا اضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ الْحَجَرَۖ فَانفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًاۖ قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَهُمْۖ كُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا مِن رِّزْقِ اللَّـهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ ﴿٦٠﴾ Translation: And when Moses prayed for water for his people, We said, ‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Thereat twelve fountains gushed forth from it; every tribe came to know its drinking-place. ‘Eat and drink of Allah’...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Khomeini wrote to his son: My son, if you are not spiritual, try not to deny spiritual and Gnostic positions. This is one of the biggest tricks of Satan and the corrupt soul, which discourages a person from all the ranks of the humanity and spiritual positions. And this compulsion to deny and sometimes mocking pure behaviours (deeds) for the sake of Allah (SWT) lead to enmity towards it, in order to nip in the bud for whatever purpose the prophets, Imams, Divine Books especially the holy Quran have come to existence for [1]. [1] Va’adeyeh Didaar, Namehayeh Imam Khomeini (RA) be Haj Seyyed Ahmad, Page 103. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleThe Miracle of W...

SHAFAQNA-An interview with Fatima Isabel Feandesa catholic Christian from Portugal who converted to Islam: Hi Fatima. How long have you been Muslim? What was your name before? Please give us a short biography of yourself. I’ve been Muslim for two years and I was Catholic before like my family. I added Fatima before my name because I converted in lady Fatima’s birthday , now I’m Fatima Isabel. I’m 36 years old and come from Portugal. I divorced with 3 daughters, actually I’m the only Muslim in my family. How did you convert to Islam? I had a dream four years ago. Then two years later, I had a strong feeling while I was passing through a Shia’ mosque. I felt that someone was calling me from t...