SHAFAQNA – Human Rights Watch has denounced as “appalling” Saudi Arabia’s death penalties for children, as three child offenders are awaiting execution. “Sentencing alleged child offenders to death is an appalling example of the Saudi court system’s injustice,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East di...

SHAFAQNA – According to a documentary movie, UK’s Aegis Defense Services employed former child soldiers from Sierra Leone as ‘the cheapest soldiers globally’. A British private military company Aegis Defense Services, contracted by US Department of Defense to provide security to Project and Contract...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA – “More people are discovering that the system is all rigged and voting is just pacification,” three-time presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul said about U.S. elections in an interview with RT America. Dr. Ron Paul says the American electoral system is rigged to keep “inde...

SHAFAQNA- Hazrat Imam (Taqi) Jawad a.s said , God will forgave all of the sins of one who pays a visit to my father’s ( Hazrat Imam Ali Raza a.s ) grave & Paradise is his . Hazrat Imam (Taqi) Jawad a.s said , For he who makes a pilgrimage to my father ( Hazrat Imam Ali Raza a.s ) , I guarantee heave...

اَللَّهُمَّ اue832نْتَ ٱلرَّبُّ وَاue832نَا ٱلْمَرْبُوبُ all¡humma anta alrrabbu wa an¡ almarb£bu O Allah, You are the Sustainer and I am the sustained. وَاue832نْتَ ٱلْخَالِقُ وَاue832نَا ٱلْمَخْلُوقُ wa anta alkh¡liqu wa an¡ almakhl£qu You are the Creator and I am the created. وَاue832نْتَ ٱلْمَال...

SHAFAQNA- Biography of Imam Mohammad Taqi (as) – Sayed Ammar Nakshawani

SHAFAQNA – Islam these days has been blamed for many great things – rather, many great evils. From allegations that Islam stands the source of all radicalism, to claims it promotes radical chauvinism, Islam has been the target of much anger, much loathing, and much prejudice … I personally believe w...

SHAFAQNA – One hour into a presentation on the perceived threat posed by Muslim immigrants, St. Cloud car salesman and anti-immigration activist Ron Branstner ramps up his pitch. The United Nations, he begins, sends Muslim refugees to the United States and to such cities as St. Cloud, “to divide and...

SHAFAQNA – Muslims who helped Christian residents of Al-Qaryatain escape from the city were reportedly murdered by a group of armed men who attacked their hiding place, based on new reports that surfaced recently. After Syrian troops were able to retake Al-Qaryatain from the Islamic State of Iraq an...

SHAFAQNA – A hijab-clad Muslim woman in the US was reportedly removed from a Southwest Airlines plane after she asked for switching seats with a flight attendant saying she “did not feel comfortable” with the passenger. Hakima Abdulle, a Muslim woman from Maryland, said she was removed from the flig...

Belgian Vice-Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) speaks during a plenary session of the Chamber at the federal parliament, in Brussels, Thursday 22 January 2015. AFP PHOTO / BELGA PHOTO / LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ (Photo credit should read LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/AFP/Getty Images) SHAFAQNA – ...

The story of Mamun al-Rashid’s first meeting with the young son of Imam Ali Ridha (as) is interesting. Once when our 9th Imam, Imam Taqi (as) was only nine years old, he was walking down a street of Baghdad, when Mamun al-Rashid and his soldiers came by. All the other children on the street ran away...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Whoever fasts a day in the month of Rajab, has attained God’s great satisfaction, Divine Wrath will be removed from him/her and the gates of hell will be closed on that person [1]. In another narration, the Prophet (PBUH) said: Fas...

SHAFAQNA – This world amuses the human beings in a way that they neglect their futures and the end of their time in the world. The life time is very short and passes away very quickly. The Prophet of Islam (PBUH) said: O’ the child of Adam (AS), what you need has been given to you, and you go after ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Hadi (AS) who said: Be good neighbours for (Divine) blessings and by appreciating them as well as giving thanks (to God) add to those blessings, and know that the human being’s soul accepts very easily whatever is given to him/her and resists strongly against anyt...

BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 15: (EDITORS NOTE: Image was created with a smartphone.) Southwest Airlines planes sit at their gates at Baltimore-Washington Inte ational Airport as flights are delayed due to technical issues at a Federal Aviation Administration center August 15, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland....

SHAFAQNA – A three-day program is scheduled to be organized in Quetta, Pakistan to celebrate the birth a iversary of Imam Ali (AS). Shia Muslims all over the Islamic country are getting ready to celebrate the auspicious occasion on the 13th of Rajab month. The ceremonies in Quetta will start on Apri...

SHAFAQNA – Pope Francis gave Europe a concrete lesson Saturday in welcoming refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis. Many refugees wept at Francis’ feet as ...

SHAFAQNA – Some 100 Jews and Muslims participated in a Passover celebration at a Manhattan mosque. Coordinated by the NYC Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee, the gathering took place April 14 at the Islamic Society of Mid Manhattan in New York, News 4 New York reported. “I don’t believe anything qui...

SHAFAQNA – In yet another self-professed attempt to combat radicalization, and foster multi-culturalism in Britain, yet another survey on British Muslims’ attitude was published by Cha el 4. Attitudes towards what exactly no one seems to really know … all we are being told though is that Muslims are...