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SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about adopted child becoming Mahram to adopting parents. Question: If husband and wife adopt a child and the wife takes tablets to produce milk in order to breastfeed the child, does the child become Mahram to the woman and her husband? The ...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem answered a question about performing Wudhu by a person whose hands do not move. Question: I am disabled and have no feeling or movement in my hands, what am I supposed to do at the time of performing Wudhu? The Grand Ayatollah Makarem: Place your face under the...

LiquidLibrary SHAFAQNA – There’s no doubt that there is something extremely terrible happening in our mode day world. Something that has incited immense fear, bigotry, hatred, and intolerance in the hearts and minds of millions of people around the globe. Something that has been on the rise since 9/...

SHAFAQNA – Sitting in the fourth-floor library of his place of worship, Yoshi Date recounts the story of his spiritual becoming. It is not unlike what you might hear from an eager Weste er gone East to find meaning. Except for Yoshi, it has gone the other way: the Japanese 24-year-old, raised in a n...

SHAFAQNA – It is shocking that pluralism is a dirty word in Malaysia, according to Nader Hashemi, the Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. Nader explained that pluralism was always a huge part of Islamic teachings so it was “disappointing” that it was viewed ne...

This book is a translation of “Maghze Mutafakkir Jehan Shi’a”, the famous Persian book, which has been published four times in Tehran. The Persian book is itself a translation from a French thesis published by The Research Committee of Strasbourg, France, about the contributions made by Imam Ja’far ...

SHAFAQNA – In a gesture of solidarity following the gruesome killing of a French priest, Muslims on Sunday attended Catholic Mass in churches and cathedrals across France and beyond. Reporters on the scene said that between 100 and 200 Muslims gathered at the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, only...

SHAFAQNA – High profile Scots Muslims have spoken of the racist abuse they and their friends and families have suffered in the wake of the terror attacks across Europe this summer.Many have had to endure everything from verbal abuse to physical attacks – which are not always reported to the authorit...

SHAFAQNA – The principle of “coexistence in Quran” was highlighted in a forum recently held for students in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq. According to the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Hussein (AS) holy shrine, the program was organized by “Al-Hawra Zeynab (SA)” Cultural Institute, which is affili...

SHAFAQNA – Lawyer Ahmad Ragheb, appointed by prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to represent him in Egypt, said that the administrative judiciary issued a verdict, removing Rajab’s name from the list of people ba ed from entering the country. This decision comes about four years after a ca...

SHAFAQNA – This video discusses the limitless Scientific and Philosophical knowledge that our 6th Holy Imam [a.s] had.

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi answered questions about the woman who is appointed to suckle another woman’s child. Question: If after marriage, the mother of the husband claims that she breastfed the bride and make an oath on her claim, what is the ruling regarding the marriage? The...

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SHAFAQNA – The Shafaqna Institute of Middle Easte Studies received worrying information pointing to the pending execution by beheading of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, nephew to late Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. A young Shia Muslim from the easte Saudi Arabian province of Qatif, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, was, like many...

SHAFAQNA – A new interfaith group has kicked off its work in Cinci ati, Ohio, to help combat anti-Muslim sentiment and promote interfaith dialogue and relationships with Greater Cinci ati’s Muslim community. “I look at it this way: where do we want to go as a civilization?” Mike Yeazell, a Cinci ati...

SHAFAQNA – Muslims and Christians have taken part in Friday prayers at a mosque in the northe Normandy region to pay tribute to an elderly priest who was recently killed by terrorists. The service was held at the Yahya mosque in the town of Saint-Etie e-du-Rouvray, with a sign holding outside the ho...

SHAFAQNA – Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Seddiqi said, “The Saudis in an attack on a Yemeni village worsened its black record of killing the Yemeni civilians; they attacked the villages and massacred all their residents and...

SHAFAQNA – How far have we fallen if not even the life of a child can motivate us to speak truth in the face of tyra y? Who are we if not silent partners if we remain bound by our fears? What is left of our morals and ethics if cowardice becomes the ba er we hide under, for speaking up could means s...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated by Abdullah ibn Sanaan who said: When Imam Sadeq (AS) commented on this part of Ayah 29 of Surah Al-Isra which says: “Do not tie your hand to your neck”; he clenched his fist tightly and said to us: Avoid this; which it is the extreme stinginess. And commenting on the other...