SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about the temporary or permanent marriage of a Muslim man or woman with Baha’is. Question: What is the ruling about the temporary or permanent marriage of Muslim man or woman with Baha’is? The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi: It is void (B...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about the conditions that a person must have to be eligible to be in charge of public property. Question: Who is in charge of public property? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: It is the responsibility of the fully qualified Mujtahid, who is trus...

SHAFAQNA- Two muslim women win bronze medal of the same class of taekwondo competitions at thexa0Rio Olympics. Iran’sxa0Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin has won thexa0bronze medal in the 57kg classxa0ofxa0taekwondo competitions, becomingxa0the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. Egypt’s Hedaya Malak...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Nearly 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were posted in English every day last month in response to terrorist attacks and the failed coup attempt in Turkey, research has found. The Centre for the Analysis for Social Media at London-based think-tank Demos said there were “significant spikes in th...

SHAFAQNA –xa0President Muhammadu Buhari has assured inte ational and local human rights groups of “appropriate response” to a report of the judicial inquiry into the Army’s barbaric attack towards unarmed members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria last December. This was revealed on Tuesday, August ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0The Olympics in Rio may have started off with fears of a terror attack, but these were soon replaced by talk of the proficiency of Muslim athletes who are breaking stereotypes. Although many Muslim athletes from around the world competed in the Games, here we highlight the stories of fo...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Nearly 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were posted in English every day last month in response to terrorist attacks and the failed coup attempt in Turkey, research has found. The Centre for the Analysis for Social Media at London-based think-tank Demos said there were “significant spikes in th...

SHAFAQNA –xa0President Muhammadu Buhari has assured inte ational and local human rights groups of “appropriate response” to a report of the judicial inquiry into the Army’s barbaric attack towards unarmed members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria last December. This was revealed on Tuesday, August ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0The Olympics in Rio may have started off with fears of a terror attack, but these were soon replaced by talk of the proficiency of Muslim athletes who are breaking stereotypes. Although many Muslim athletes from around the world competed in the Games, here we highlight the stories of fo...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Now days in the mode societies as well as the Islamic countries the weste cultural influence is spreading like an illness amongst the Muslim youth. Due to this problem, we see some of the young Muslim girls and boys, knowingly or unknowingly, want to have pre-marital relationships which ...

SHAFAQNA-xa0“Women Want GENDER EQUALITY – FINE. Then As a FIRST Step We Need to Implement EQUAL Representation of BOTH Men & Women in the Armed Forces of a Country Before We Go Any Further. The Defense of a Country’s TerritorialIntegrity & Its Interests MUST Take Precedence Over Everything Else.” – ...

SHAFAQNA-xa0A Lecture by Prof Sayyid Husain NasrBismillah hir Rahma nir RahimFirst of all, let me begin by saying how happy I am to be able to accept an invitation of the MIT Islamic Students Association, and that of other universities and other organizations nearby, to give this lecture here today ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0What do you do when your army is killing children and bombing schools and hospitals? You give them rewards. At least that’s what the Saudi King has done, giving the kingdom’s soldiers rewards for the killing machine that it has produced after getting back from vacation. And what does th...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Members of different Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith groups have banded together to condemn the senseless violence committed against two Muslim men that happened in Queens last weekend. Last Saturday, an imam, or an Islamic worship leader, and his assistant were fatally shot by an un...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Rouhani answered a question about quoting from news agencies without mentioning the source. Question: What is the ruling about using texts and news from a site or a news agency without mentioning the source? (On the condition that it is written on the footnote of any n...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shahroodi answered a question about the allowed sound level of call to prayer (Adhan) from a Mosque. Question: Please specify the allowed sound level of call to prayer from the minaret of the Mosque. Considering that by using the electronic devices the sound of call to...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Kuleini and a number of great narrators have narrated this event from Yasa’ ibn Hamzah – one of the companions of Imam Ali ibn Moosa al-Rida (A.S.): On one of the days, I was in the house of Imam Rida (A.S.) along with many others. The people were asking questions about divine orders, an...

SHAFAQNA-xa0Since the influence of friend of man is very deep, Islamic teachings have given an important status to the friendship. In Holy Quran it is stated that most of the companions of the Fire will say, in the Hell, that “Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend. He led me awa...

As you may be aware, the prophets propagated their messages on the basis of two executive guarantees: wa ing the people and bringing glad tidings for them. They wa ed people from the agony of fire as a result of sins; and promised them the rewards and great blessings of the hereafter as a result of ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Over the weekend, people tweeted an offer to their Muslim neighbors: #IllWalkWithYou. The hashtag spread quickly as Muslims around the country reeled from the news that two Muslim men were fatally shot blocks from their Queens mosque on Saturday afte oon. The murders of Imam Maulama Ako...