SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Kazim (AS) who said: Try to divide your daily life into four parts; time for prayers to God, time for ea ing livelihood, time for socializing with brothers and trusted individuals who indicate your faults to you and are sincere to you in their hearts, and time for...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Sajjad (AS) who said: The right of the person who has done bad to you by words or by action is that, if that bad deed is on purpose, forgiving him/her is better for you because your forgiveness makes that person to be discouraged from bad deeds and corrects his/he...

SHAFAQNA – There has been a sharp rise in attacks against Pakistan Shiite community, leading many experts, and observers to war of the genocidal undertone of such sectarian targeting. Branded apostates by radical militants, Shiites have suffered great many injustices in Pakistan. Violence has spiked...

Rhetoric word cloud concept SHAFAQNA – Two weeks ago, three men assaulted a 19-year-old American Muslim in Astoria, Queens, New York. One suspect shouted “Arab” and punched the victim twice in the face. A second screamed “ISIS” and approached with a metal pipe. When a bystander appeared, the three s...

SHAFAQNA – Nearly 25,000 people, including Ismael Essa, gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center Saturday for a three-day conference. “It’s a lot of speakers and I can get some knowledge from great scholars all over the U.S., and to be good examples for Muslims, especially with these circumstance...

SHAFAQNA – There is a great misunxadderstanding of Islam in the West, a fair amount of which falls under the ba er of Islamophobia — the unfounded fear of Islam. True, much of this misconception has been accentuated by actions of Islamist fundamentalists such as members of al-Qaeda and its spinoff, ...

SHAFAQNA – In Ayah 70 of Surah Al-Asra, Allah (SWT) said: “God dignified (granted honour and respect; lifted them to the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect) the children of Adam and provided them with transport on land and at sea. God provided them with wholesome things and favour...

SHAFAQNA – The order of creation (existence) is based on the axis of justice and there is no oppression or deviation in Divine Creation by Allah (SWT). According to holy verses of the Quran for example, in a part of Ayah 25 of Surah Al-Hadeed, Allah (SWT) said: “God sent messengers with explanations...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about defending someone who has been subjected to backbiting. Question: Is it Wajeb for the listener to stand up and defend and remove the case of backbiting from the person who is being subjected to backbiting? The Grand Ayatollah ...

SHAFAQNA-An inte ational human rights organization called on the US administration to press the Bahraini regime over the immediate release of Sheikh Ali Salman, secretary general of Bahrain’s main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society. “The Bahraini authorities have a chance on Mond...

SHAFAQNA – If Weste capitals long sold out Syria’s national sovereignty, hoping to lay waste a democratically elected gove ment to better affirm their special brand of imperial exceptionalism, Syrians proven to be tougher than most give them credit for. In truth, and not to take anything away from o...

SHAFAQNA – Muslim community of New York a ounces to start a hunger strike in support of Allama Jaffri over Shia killing in Pakistan. Hunger Strike of Secretary General Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jaffri against the massacre of Ahle-Tashyyu people in Pakistan has entered into 14th...

SHAFAQNA – Human Rights Organization, Amnesty Inte ational, has expressed its deep conce s over a surge in executions carried out by Saudi in the first six months of 2016. The London-based watchdog says that the kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences last year, making it the third most pro...

SHAFAQNA – In reply to a question about the most important and fundamental principles of all Divine Religions, Imam Sajjad (AS) said: Inviting (people) to the truth, just judgement (acting on fair and unprejudiced judgment) and fulfilling the promise (covenant, treaty, contract, agreement, pact) [1]...

SHAFAQNA – By looking at the Quranic teaching one can realise that God is the absolute truth. In Ayah 53 of Surah Fusselat, Allah (SWT) said: “they will be shown God’s signs in the furthest regions of the world and in their own souls until it becomes clear to them that this is the Truth. Is your God...

SHAFAQNA – Flattery is mostly (carried out) for deceiving and capturing people and the human being flatters others for the sake of greed [1]. Subordinates for their bosses and those who seek positions for the sake of using ignoble people, flatter them to draw their attentions in order to fulfill the...

SHAFAQNA – Richard Omar drove his pickup truck through the cemetery gate and pulled to a stop in sight of the scattered headstones. As he walked toward a low granite monument, his ru ing shoes crunched the dry prairie grass and he tilted forward into an unrelenting west wind. “These are my parents,”...

SHAFAQNA – In the same period more than 700 Muslims in the region also reported being threatened or unfair treatment because of their religion, according to a study by umbrella organization SPIOR, ANP reported. For this study, people in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region could report discrimination to SP...

SHAFAQNA – Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said in his press briefing on Friday that weapons and ammunitions are continuously being delivered to the al-Nusra Front terrorists in Syria, allowing them to engage Syrian gove ment forces and hindering the fight against Daesh in the country. “The never-ending flo...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) said: O’ people, I fear two things for you; following false desires and far reaching wishes. Following false desires stops the human being from the truth and far reaching wishes cause negligence of the hereafter(forgetting about the hereafter) [1]. [1] Nahjul Balaghah, Sermo...