SHAFAQNA – “I ask all the parties and the inte ational community to remain steadfast in support of this cessation of hostilities to be a first in Yemen’s retu to peace… Yemen ca ot afford the loss of more lives,” declared Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed , the UN Special Envoy to Yemen as he confirmed Yemen...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Whoever wakes up in the mo ing whilst God’s satisfaction is not part of his/her intention and motivation, is not included as agent or soldier of Allah (SWT). And whoever wakes up in the mo ing whilst he/she is indifferent about the...

SHAFAQNA – My son, try not to go out of this world with the rights of others on you; as this will make it very difficult for you. Dealing with the Most Merciful God is much easier than with the human beings; and one of the more important points I need to recommend in my will is that, you help people...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroodi answered questions about temporary marriage. Question: What is the ruling for temporary marriage of 1000 years or more? If due to emotional issues the time of temporary marriage is set for 1000 years, is this Nikah (Marriage) void? Or will it become p...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about wearing veil. Question: If wearing veil on the face in a town causes surprise and asking questions and is considered as the fame seeking clothing, is it Wajeb not to wear it? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: It does not become Wajeb unless...

SHAFAQNA- Two more arrests were made in co ection with a Molotov cocktail thrown at a mosque in Enschede, the Netherlands, in February.Two men aged 24 and 36 were arrested in Enschede on Tuesday, on suspicion of conspiracy and preparation for arson with terrorist intent, according to RTV Oost.The Mo...

SHAFAQNA- Philippians kidnappers say they’ll kill a pair of Canadian hostages on April 25 if their ransom demand isn’t met. In a new video posted on social media Friday, the terrorists demand 300 million pesos — $8.3 million — for each man, down from the figure of a billion pesos each that the milit...

The law says that only adults will be permitted to end their lives, according to the gove ment’s press release. The Canadian gove ment led by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced the document on Thursday, which will be voted on in June. “It’s a deeply personal issue that affects all of u...

SHAFAQNA – Soon after the San Be ardino attacks last December, Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins began searching desperately for a way to “replace trauma and terror with love.” Haydar, a Syrian-American Muslim from Flint, Michigan, says that a lot of people don’t realize that when an extr...

SHAFAQNA – Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi said that the “undeniable” root cause of Takfiris and its associated violence, murder and terrorism is Saudi Arabia and this is based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab. Speaking during his jurisprudence class at Qom’s Grand Mosque, Grand Ayatollah Nas...

SHAFAQNA – British Muslims are more progressive on gay rights than the Tories and the Church, Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi has said. Her defense of the community comes as a jihadist magazine called for her murder as an “apostate.” Warsi was criticizing former equalities tsar Trevor Phillips, who ...

SHAFAQNA – Human Rights Watch has called on Turkey to stop firing on Syrian civilians fleeing fighting and allow them to cross the Turkish border. The UN Refugee Agency asked Ankara to provide data on possible refugee deaths in shelling on the Syrian border. “As civilians flee ISIS fighters, Turkey ...

Lailatul Raghaib (Arabic: لَيْلَةُ الرَّغَائِبْ; Night of Wishes) falls on the first Thursday night of the month of Rajab and it is recommended to perform the a’maal of Lailatul Raghaib. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has said, that these prayers are a means of forgiveness and on the first night in our gra...

SHAFAQNA- Two of two biggest congregations in Sweden are joining together for an endeavor that would help refugees passing through the country. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website, the Katarina Church and the Stockholm Mosque are collaborating to provide accommodat...

SHAFAQNA – Lawyers for the detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement (IMN) and his spouse have filed an application to the country’s High Court in a bid to secure their immediate release. The applications, which were submitted yesterday to the court in the Nigerian capital Abuja, seek declaratio...

SHAFAQNA – In Italy, the first ‘hotspot’ for screening migrants and asylum seekers opened last September on the island of Lampedusa. Seven months later, critics say the system is excluding migrants from official reception systems and encouraging them to disappear into the informal economy. In a smal...

SHAFAQNA – Ignorant bigotry these days has become Europe’s daily bread! The very continent which lived in its flesh the infamy and shame of fascism only some decades ago, stands today to repeat the same violence, and play by the same hate. The Old Continent and its old habits … the Old Continent and...

In this Monday, May 5, 2014 file photo, women attend a demonstration in Lagos calling on the gove ment to rescue kidnapped school girls of a gove ment secondary school in Chibok. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba, File) SHAFAQNA- Angry over lack of progress to resolve one of the highest-profile mass kidnappi...

SHAFAQNA – This volume is centred around the theme of veiling in Islam and provides multifarious aspects of the discussion regarding veiling of Muslim women, especially in the West. The issue of veiling has been intensively debated in Weste society and has implications for religious liberty, inter-c...

SHAFAQNA – The majority of people who are promoting Takfiri ideology online are using political rather than religious arguments, show recent findings of a recent study by two UAE-based think tanks. The study, released as an animated video, is a co-production of the Abu Dhabi-based Future Center for ...