SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi answered a question about buying the house repossessed by non-Islamic banks. Question: Can the house which is repossessed due to debts by non-Islamic banks be bought? The Grand Ayatollah Makarem: Only when it is mortgaged, and the money has not been pai...

SHAFAQNA –xa0For how long will we watch our communities bu and do nothing to by way of putting the fire out? How many times can we expect to attend our people’s funeral and never attempt to intervene in saving their lives. Yemen is exploding before our eyes and all we have done is silently stand by....

SHAFAQNA – Hypocrisy is a very ugly and shameful characteristic which the noble human being is never endowed with it, because it causes disgrace in this world and torment in the hereafter. The cure for this inappropriate characteristic is in two stages: In the first stage, thinking about the result ...

SHAFAQNA- Sheikh Tusi, (d. 460 A.H.) introduced his mentor Sheikh al Mufid, in hisxa0al Fihristxa0thus: “Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-No’man, al-Mufid, had the kunya Abu Abdillah, and was well known as Ibn-al-Muallim. He was among the Imamiyya theologians, and was its final authority in his time. And ...

SHAFAQNA- Imam Rida’s strong love for the holy book, Qur’an, made him benefit from it first in his personal life. Neither time nor place, neither the day nor the night adversely affected this practice. Qur’an Recitation in the BedIn addition to reading the Qur’an during the daytime, Imam Rida’s stro...

SHAFAQNA-xa0A reliable tradition states that in this world and the world-to-come, there is nothing better than water. Anyone who takes pleasure in drinking water will take pleasure when God gives him the wine of Heaven. According to a tradition from Hadrat Ali (a.s.), “zamzam water is the best water...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a Monday terrorist attack that left scores of civilians dead at a hospital in Pakistan’s southweste city of Quetta. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday expressed condolences to the Pakistani gove ment and nation on the fatal su...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Chief Minister of Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri on Tuesday paid a visit to civil hospital and met with the victims of Quetta blast. According to details, the minister inspected the bomb site and directed the investigation officers to launch complete probe into the explosion that killed 71...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Death toll from the Quetta attack reached 72 as two more people succumbed to their wounds on Tuesday. Earlier today, 27 injured of the Quetta Attack were brought to a Pakistan Air Force base in Karachi in a C130 aircraft. They have been admitted at a private hospital at Stadium Road for...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shahroodi answered questions about verbal expression of love. Question: Is expressing love without lust from the boy towards the girl and vice-versa Haram? 2. Is verbal expression of love by observing all religious rules and havingxa0xa0xa0 100% intention for marriage,...

SHAFAQNA – In a Divine Narration (Hadith), Allah (SWT) said: Any of My servants who obeys Me, I will not entrust him/her to any one else. And any of My servants who disobeys Me, I will entrust him/her to himself/herself and do not care in which valley he/she perishes [1]. [1] Sokhane Khoda, Ayatolla...

SHAFAQNA –xa0People whose only knowledge of Muslims comes from the media are very likely to have negative emotions and stereotypical beliefs about them, new research shows. In the Jou al of Communication, Srividya Ramasubramanian, associate dean of liberal arts and professor of communication at Texa...

SHAFAQNA- By: Professor Mahdi GolshaniWe have already said the Qur’an is not a book of natural science but a book of guidance and enlightenment, and wherever there is reference to the natural phenomena, it is meant to guide humans through them. We also explained God has gifted man with mental facult...

Collage of human head, molecules and various abstract elements on the subject of mode science, chemistry, physics, human and artificial minds SHAFAQNA- By: Professor Mahdi GolshaniNature means the physical world, which is, the world with which we come into contact through our senses. In the Holy Qur...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A Muslim mixedxa0martial arts fighter – who trains boxing champ Amir Khan – has slammed British Islamic extremists as “uneducated monkeys” in a heated social media rant. Tam Khan has urged all Muslims living in Britain to “respect” the country’s xa0culture and traditions – and says anyo...

SHAFAQNA –xa0With 1.5 million Syrian refugee children missing school despite host countries’ best efforts, Stephanie Gee, refugee rights fellow at Human Rights Watch, explores how kids’ access to education depends on their parents’ right to work. The first dayxa0of school is just around the co er – ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Members of London’s Muslim community joined together outside Victoria Park Saturday for the first Meet a Muslim event. “I decided to hold this event to help educate the community, reaching out to the community by educating them and spreading awareness to stop Islamophobia,” said organiz...

SHAFAQNA –xa0This list is in no way exhaustive, but is every part disgusting. With Islamophobia on the rise, every other day we hear stories of Muslim passengers being exited from flights for one reason or the other. Here’s a list of bizarre reasons, airlines asked their Muslim customers to get off ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A halal supermarket in a Paris suburb has been told by local authorities it must start selling alcohol and pork or else it will be shut down. Good Price discount mini-market in Colombes has been told by the local housing authority, from which it rents its premises, that it has not follo...

SHAFAQNA –xa0A Quran competition was held for Muslim youth in Dearbo , Michigan. It was organized on the sidelines of the 12th Annual National Muslim Congress Conference, held in Dearbo on August 5-7. According to muslimcongress.org, it was managed under the auspices of world-renowned Qari, HI Abaza...