SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Khamenei answered a question about determining the first day of month. Question: Can the night when full moon is evident be cited for determining the first day of month, so to clarify the situation of Youmal Shak (the day of doubt) that for example it is the 30th of Ra...

SHAFAQNA-Praise is due to Allah whose worth ca ot be described by speakers, whose bounties ca ot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience) ca ot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage ca ot appreciate, and the divings of understanding ca ot...

SAFAQNA- Bahrainis held hundreds-strong protests throughout Manama, venting rage at a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that has more than doubled the jail sentence against the country’s top opposition leader. On Tuesday, the protesters defied a curfew placed over the village of Saar, west of the capit...

SHAFAQNA- The Philadelphia School District will add two Muslim holidays to its calendar, placing it among the first in the nation to do so. In what would be an even rarer step, Mayor Ke ey said Tuesday he also hopes to adopt the holidays for city workers. He has created a task force to determine how...

SHAFAQNA – Jeremy Corbyn has a very clear vision of the future and it most definitely involves the EU. Just a fierce debate is still raging in the UK on whether or not Britain ought to stay within the European Union, Jeremy Corbyn, the head of Labour, and well-known politician is making a case for t...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA – STOP THE WAR IN SYRIA is calling on supporters to mobilize. “Please help the Syrians… The Syrians need help now. Just stop the war. We don’t want to stay in Europe, just stop the war.” We first met 13-year-old Syrian refugee Kinan Masalmeh in the Hungarian border town o...

According to the public prosecution statement carried by state news agency BNA, a Bahraini judge ordered her release and that of another mother “on account of their humanitarian situation and for the well-being and interests of their children.” The statement did not mention what the charges were aga...

SHAFAQNA – Sahihah Sajjadiyyah is a book containing 54 Duas by Imam Sajjad (AS). After the holy Quran and Nahjul Balaghah, this book has an important position among Shia Muslims. Agha Bozorg Tehrani mentioned 50 commentaries of Sahifah in Alzari’ah with the most famous of them being Riazal Salekeen ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Whoever believes in Allah (SWT) and the Day of Judgment must fulfill his/her given promise [1]. It is also narrated from Imam Sadeq (AS) who said: Do not promise your brother when you are not able to fulfill it [2]. It is clear tha...

SHAFAQNA – According to the holy Quran, all Divine Commands are meaningful within the frame of piety (Taqwa) and the nearest deed which proves it (piety) to be true is justice, and this is clearly stated by Allah (SWT) in Ayah 8 of Surah Al-Ma’edah: “O’ you who believe, stand firmly for Allah (SWT) ...

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 tim...

SHAFAQNA – In order to bring you, our readers, closer to realities and truths, Shafaqna will conduct a series of exclusive podcast interviews with renown political analysts politicians, officials, religious leaders, and academics. As always our aim is simple – knowledge. In a world run, and based on...

SHAFAQNA – On Saturday thousands of Muslim worshippers descended on Istanbul’s world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported. An imam led a prayer in front of the vast building that was once a Greek Ort...

SHAFAQNA – Grand Ayatollah Hussein Noori Hamedani, senior Shia jurisprudent, met with a group of scholars, politicians, managers of Islamic centers and also academicians from Pakistan highlighting importance of knowing the enemies calling religious leaders to rise against a gove ment surrendered to ...

SHAFAQNA – Muslims who attacked and stripped an elderly Christian woman in a southe Egyptian village will be punished, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Monday. The Muslim mob in Minya province’s Karma village had also torched and looted seven houses of Christian families during the May 20 attack,...

SHAFAQNA – The 10th Day will host its second Gala Di er this Saturday – June 4th – in Manchester. The vibrant youth organization promises its guests an exciting evening under the ba er of Imam Hussain – one of Islam’s greatest heroes and Imam. It is Imam Hussain’s teachings and valour which inspired...

SHAFAQNA – In order to bring you, our readers, closer to realities and truths, Shafaqna will conduct a series of exclusive podcast interviews with renown political analysts politicians, officials, religious leaders, and academics. As always our aim is simple – knowledge. In a world run, and based on...

SHAFAQNA – Bo and raised as a Muslim in Iran until the age of 22, I finally had my unimaginable dream come true. I was about to travel to Califo ia to study and complete the process of family migration to the US that took us about 15 years to complete — a dream that I never thought would come true; ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Generosity and nobleness of Ahlul Bait (AS) is that we forgive and we are tolerant towards the person who has been cruel to us, and we give generously to the one who has deprived us [1]. [1] Tohaful Oqool, Page 37. SHARE Facebook T...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) in a letter to his son Imam Hassan Mojtaba (AS) wrote: My son, show (present) the past history to yourself, and remember what happened to previous generations. Travel to their lands and visit the remains of the past people, reflect on what they have done? Where they came fro...