SHAFAQNA- TRIPFEZ, a new B2C travel booking engine dedicated to the Muslim travel market, was launched last week at ITB Berlin. “Tripfez is a virtual shop window showcasing halal-friendly travel solutions to a captive but underserved audience of 108 million Muslim travellers,” explained founder & CE...

PHOTO: J PAT CARTER/GETTY IMAGES SHAFAQNA- American Muslims have been thrust into the spotlight in this election cycle: Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called on temporarily ba ing the entrance of Muslims into the country and has even suggested that mosques in the United S...

SHAFAQNA- The Republic of Azerbaijan’s gove ment ba ed the import of 732 books on religious issues. The Caucasian country’s gove ment committee for religious groups has made the decision, the Caucasus Religious Center reported. It said more than 2700 religious books were reviewed by experts in the c...

SHAFAQNA- Love is one of the most sublime and most appealing of concepts in Shi’ism in particular and Islamic culture and belief in general. In Shi’i belief, mahabbah or hubb, and related words like mawaddah and waliyah, play a very significant and profound role, to the extent that, to cite one inst...

SHAFAQNA- Lessons from the use of the Qur’an by Muslims who wish to profit from it whenever sanctimoniousness increases and it becomes fashionable to display one’s piety. Excerpted from Polarization around the Character of Ali ibn Abi Talib. It is now some thirteen centuries that the politics of “ho...

SHAFAQNA- By: Zara Husseini Although there are a plenty number of the miracles of Imam-e-Zaman but we point out two of them as under: 1) Shiekh Tusi has narrated it from a man named Rashiq, who was the agent of Abbesade caliph “Motazid.” One day Motazid summoned me and said, “I have lea t that there...

SHAFAQNA – While Donald Trump has made many headlines since he a ounced his candidacy to the presidency, his last inflammatory comments against Muslims might still land him in hot political waters. Ru ing on America’s racism to power his campaign, and let’s say it palliate to his lack of political s...

SHAFAQNA – This March rights activists and supporters have come out in drove to support Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s legacy, standing a barrage to the radicalism and theocratic absolutism millions have suffered from under the boot of Saudi Arabia. As three Saudi youths stand to be beheaded, social media ha...

SHAFAQNA – Long held as a democratic model for the Middle East, Turkey is fast becoming ground zero for all things totalitarian, and neo-colonial, under the leadership of its ambitious President: Recep Erdogan. A despot in democratic clothing, Turkey’s strongman has played by America’s exceptional h...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about doubting if an animal is alive at the time of the slaughter. Question: A sheep is slaughtered but there is a doubt if it was alive at the time of slaughter as no movement was noticed. In order for it to be Halal, is it enough ...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about the condition for dissecting the body of Muslim.Question: Some organisations (forensics) in order to find the cause of death or murder, want to dissect the body of the deceased, is this allowed o when it is forbidden?The Grand Ayatolla...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) addressing Malik Ashtar said: If people suspect that you have wronged them, offer them an apology openly because by doing so, you will take them out of their suspicion. Offering apology causes the soul to fall into the habit of good behaviour, kindness and flexibility toward...

SHAFAQNA – There must be something in the air which is prompting Saudi Arabia Royals from taking pen to paper those days, because never before have we witnessed such a deluge of editorial and opinion pieces, courtesy of the kingdom’s highest and mightiest. Following on the heels of Saudi Arabia Amba...

SHAFAQNA- This article appeared in the jou al Mishkat (No 4, Spring 1363 H. Sh.), published by Idareh-ye Umur-e Farhangi, an academic and research institution attached to Astaneh-ye Quds-a Radawi, that is, Imam Rida’s Shrine at Mashhad. The author is a well-known Iranian scholar. Undoubtedly, no oth...

Before dealing with the main question, we must say that the Quran itself is the best book and superior to all heavenly books. All of its verses (ayāt) are at the highest level of perfection and significance. Hence, we ca ot differentiate between them by telling that a particular verse is better and ...

Shafaqna – Commentary of the Quran (Chapter 2:40; Part-1)By: Mohammad Sobhanie The Children of Israel in the Quranبِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِيَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتِيَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَوْفُوا بِعَهْدِي أُوفِ بِعَهْدِكُمْ وَإِيَّايَ فَارْهَبُونِ ﴿٤٠﴾Tran...

What has been put forth in the question is, in fact, referring to some poems which have been ascribed to Imam Ali (A.S). The original Arabic version of the poems are as under:َدوَاؤُکَ فِیکَ وَ مَا تَشْعُرُوَ دَاؤُکَ مِنْکَ وَ مَا تَنْظُرُوَ تَحْسَبُ [تزعم] أَنَّکَu200f جِرْمٌu200f صَغِیرٌوَ فِیکَ ا...

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To control the observation of ceasefire agreements in the region, Moscow will keep its Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province and a base at the port of Tartus, Putin said. At Moscow’s initiative, a phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Syria’s President Bashar Assad was held on Monday evening,...