SHAFAQNA- Heartiest congratulations to you all on a very auspicious day commemorated as Day of Youths. It is the day that is celebrated every year in the Islamic Republic of Iran as the Day of the Virtuous Youths, for it was on this day on the 11th of the month of Sha’ban that God had granted the Ma...

SHAFAQNA-Hadhrat Ali Akbar (AS) – Speech at Wali

SHAFAQNA – This May Shafaqna had the privilege of interviewing several Houthi leaders and high ranking military officers, among whom Mohammad Abdulsalam, the group’s spokesperson. Our aim was to paint a clearer picture from the ground up. For all the coverage the Weste press has volunteered over the...

SHAFAQNA – Tongue can be used to cause friendship and integration or create disunity and dispute. Human’s speech can start enmity or remove differences and bring peace and reconciliation. The Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who is the axis of unity for Ummah, used to control his tongue and never said anythi...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) said: Swear to my life, I do not compromise or show weakness fighting with the one who is against the truth and follows the wrong way [1]. In another place, Imam Ali (AS) said: In all my life there is not one dark point in order for the hypocritical ones and those who point ...

SHAFAQNA – The UK has 3.9 million residents who are living in “persistent poverty,” a new study shows, underscoring the country’s precarious nature of work. The latest data was released Monday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which also said one in three people in the UK has experienced p...

SHAFAQNA – Before I delve into the serious matter which is women rights in Saudi Arabia – or rather the lack of … I would like to make abundantly clear to readers that my anger … even though justified, is not aimed at Saudi Arabians, but the regime which claims to represent them. A violent and react...

SHAFAQNA – The Reform and Rehabilitation Department at the Bahraini Ministry of Interior denied holding Shiite cleric Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mansi in solitary confinement, claiming that it placed him in “isolation” to await his medical results. It further explained that “every prisoner or detainee in pr...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA-Muslim scholar and philosopher Tariq Ramadan got a nasty surprise Sunday when a group of feminist activists posing in Islamic dress jumped the stage he was speaking on and stripped to the waist. Ramadan was speaking on a panel at an Islamic conference in Le Bourget, Franc...

Angelina Jolie & Donald Trump Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images; Al Drago/CQ Roll Call SHAFAQNA- She’s not with him. Angelina Jolie joined the ever-growing list of celebrities who’ve publicly lashed out at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and the celebrity activist gave a ve...

SHAFAQNA – Beyond the paradox of celebrating a bygone Islamic civilisation at the height of Islamophobia in the United States. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just opened a magnificent exhibition of Islamic art of the Seljuqid period. That sentence would or should probably cause a dou...

SHAFAQNA – Young men from the northe districts of this most Muslim city in France are expected be among the first to be called up when the gove ment in Paris kicks off its Orwellian new plan to fight the so-called Islamic State. The idea is to herd suspected extremists into mysterious “deradicalizat...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Sadeq (AS) who said: Swear to God, Ali Ibn Abitaleb whilst he was alive, never ate Haram and whenever he was faced with two ways which both were for the satisfaction God, he never chose the easy option, and in any important event which occurred for the Prophet (PB...

SHAFAQNA – I was motivated to write this article due to the recent statement of the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir on #Yemen in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. Al-Jubeir said that the priority of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is not to fight the Iranian-backed Houthi free...

SHAFAQNA – The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group and the World Bank Group have jointly produced a global report on Islamic finance. Director General of the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Prof. Mohamed Azmi Omar, a ounced today in Jakarta, Indonesia while launching a synthesis of ...

SHAFAQNA- The British Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast the Muslim call to prayer according to plans from the corporation’s head of religion. Aaqil Ahmed, Commissioning Editor Religion and Head of Religion & Ethics — the first Muslim to hold the position at the BBC — said the Beeb’s programs ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated that at nights Imam Sajjad (AS) used to come out of his house with a big bag on his back containing smaller bags of money to carry to the doors of the houses of poor people, he used to knock the doors and whoever came out, he used to give to them. When Imam sajjad (AS) pass...

SHAFAQNA – Human beings are neglectful because the world’s o aments, own desires and satanic temptations are so strong and deceitful which make them to forget what is happening around them. Allah (SWT) in many of the holy verses of the Quran wa s human beings especially disbelievers that they are tr...

SHAFAQNA – What is the child of Adam (AS) to do with pomposity? He who at the begi ing is a fetid seed (sperm), and at the end is a stinky corpse, is neither able to provide his own sustenance nor to detach himself from death [1]![1] Nahjul Balaghah, Wisdom 454 SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articl...

SHAFAQNA – What a difference a year make … Indeed! For well over a year now (May 2016) Yemen has suffered Saudi Arabia relentless military onslaught, all in the name of restoration, counter-terrorism, democracy-building and the ever elusive mirage which has been political stability. As bombs have dr...