SHAFAQNA – The month of Ramadhan, is the month of prophethood and the month of Shabaan the month of Imamate. The month of Ramadhan has Laylatul Qadr and the month of Shabaan has the night of 15th of Shabaan (which is also important). The month of Ramadhan is blessed because it has Laylatul Qadr and ...

SHAFAQNA – Ayah 105 of Surah Al-Anbia says: “Before this, God wrote in Psalms after the message (given to Moses (AS)): God’s righteous servants shall inherit the earth.” According to this holy verse and the commentaries by infallible Imams (AS), Imam Mahdi (AJ) as the complete righteous servant of A...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about performing Salaat Imam Zaman (AJ). Question: Can Salaat Imam Zaman (AJ) be performed in congregation or in a group? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: It (Salaat Imam Zaman (AJ)) is not allowed in congregation but there is no problem in a gr...

SHAFAQNA – ‘Lord forgive them for they do not know what they’re doing’ … I wonder if this famous quote could apply to our mode -day great freak out over Muslim women and the headscarf. The audacity really! Why cover up when you could be free? Free, however, is actually the point. If we are in fact l...

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...

Commentary of the Quran (Chapter 2:49-50)By: Mohammad Sobhanie Freedom from Firon’s Torment بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِوَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُم مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَاءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُم...

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 – What looked to be a new window of detente between the US and Iran, following the signing of the Joint Comprehensive plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program has quickly tu ed opaque. A US decree was issued to seize $2 billion in assets belonging to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), holding ...

SHAFAQNA – Former Utah Sen. Bob Be ett found Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. so offensive, he felt the need to apologize to them—on his deathbed. After battling cancer and suffering a stroke, Be ett, who died earlier this month, tu ed to his son in the hospi...

SHAFAQNA – Iranian director Hadi Mohammadian’s animated movie “Princess of Rome”, about the life of the Roman emperor’s granddaughter, Malika, who gave birth to the 12th Imam of Shia Imam Mahdi (AS), will go on screen at Club de l’Etoile in Paris on May 22. The Iranian cultural attaché’s office and ...

SHAFAQNA – Actor Parviz Parastui has launched a campaign against the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on April 20 that families of victims of a 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut are allowed access to $2 billion of funds belonging to Iran in a New York bank. He has asked all Iranians and artists in particul...

SHAFAQNA – According to the Shiite version of Islam the 12th descendant of Mohammed, known as the 12th Imam or the Mahdi, (Also known as the “Hidden Imam”) went into hiding in 941, some 1300 years ago. At an earlier time of rising tensions, the 10th imam was forced from his home in Medina by the pow...

SHAFAQNA – It is known that the holy Quran speaks in general terms and for explanation and the commentary of the holy verses one must refer to experts and specialists in Quranic knowledge, i.e., the infallible Imams (AS). In another words, the responsibility and the duty of making clear and explanat...

SHAFAQNA – According to the holy Quran during the history of the human being, the earth has never been without God’s Proof and Allah (SWT) has sent a guide to all nations. In Ayah 7 of Surah Ra’ad, Allah (SWT) said: “Indeed you are a wa er and there is one guide for every society (nation, people).” ...

SHAFAQNA – Waiting for the appearance of God’s Proof indicates to the “existence” and ”appearance” of Imam Mahdi (AJ) and these are mentioned in the holy Quran and the narrations from infallible Imams (AS). In Ayah 93 of Surah Al-Hud, Allah (SWT) says: “Wait as I am waiting like you”. In his comment...

SHAFAQNA – Have you ever wondered if there was a patte to the madness which is the Middle East, and the many wars the region has witnessed over years? At which point should we look for the agenda behind the bloodshed, and the apparent nonsensical violence nations have had to grapple with? Is War a c...

SHAFAQNA- Hadrat Hujjat ibn Hasan al-Askari(A.S.) the Twelfth Holy Imam, Al-Mahdi was bo on 15th Shaban in 255 A.H. in Samarrah(Iraq). On this Auspicious and Solemn Occasion we extend our Heartiest and Happy Greetings to all the peace-lovers and justice seekers in the world. 15th Shaban:The Happy an...

SHAFAQNA- Tallal Alie Turfe ISBN 978-0-940368-47-7Paperback, 269 pg. Unity in Islam – Reflections and Insights discusses the importance of relying on the “Rope of Allah” to achieve unity within the self, the community and the world at large. The book starts with the discussion of unity found in the ...

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SHAFAQNA – In one co er of Kathmandu’s Jame Masjid, a stone’s throw from the former-royal-palace-tu ed-museum, lies the tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal – forlo and sho of its past grandeur. Mahal was the queen of Awadh, a princely state in neighbouring India, and the face of the 1857 rebellion against th...