SHAFAQNA – The Express UK published a news report this Friday in which readers are wa ed against the threat posed by Sharia court, and the alleged judicial take-over Muslims ambition to manifest in the UK. While such wa ings have evidently been blown out of proportion – very much in line with corpor...

SHAFAQNA- Chastity and veiling Fatimah (A.S) was the highest example in chastity, honor, and veiling for all Muslim women. Imam Ali (A.S) said, ‘Once, a blind man asked permission to visit Fatimah (A.S), but she asked him to stay behind a screen. The messenger of Allah (A.S) asked Fatimah (A.S), ‘Wh...

SHAFAQNA- Devotedness Fatimah (A.S) devoted herself to Allah and resorted to Him totally in all of her affairs. This was clear in her dua’a. Her dua’a on tu ing to Allah Fatimah (A.S) often supplicated Allah with this dua’a, “O Allah, by Your knowing of the unseen and Your power over the creation, m...

SHAFAQNA- Next to fish, shrimp is the believed to be the most popular seafood. Raw shrimp has a firm, translucent flesh, which is low in calories and saturated fat. This makes it a healthier alte ative to other milk proteins. Shrimp comes in a varied range of size and colors, such as pink, gray, bro...

SHAFAQNA – As a series of attacks struck Russian diplomatic missions across Ukraine, the West remained silent. On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the US and its allies of “hypocrisy,” for refusing to condemn the violence. On Wednesday, protesters outside of the Russian embas...

SHAFAQNA – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights has censured the gove ment in Bahrain for its harsh crackdown on dissent, calling on Manama to carry out fundamental reforms. Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein on Thursday expressed conce about frequent cases of arrest of dissidents in Bahrain, sa...

SHAFAQNA – It is often that people forget that Islam is not as they have been taught to believe: foreign and remote from their faith. Islam in fact is the immovable link, and last bridge in between God and Men, the Word and Salvation. In Islam it is the God of Abraham Who speaks … you may want to li...

SHAFAQNA – Any person in any position with any responsibility; that position and that responsibility is his/her test. In Islam, the criterion is God’s satisfaction and not the personalities; we assess the personalities by the truth and not the other way round; the criterion is the truth and the real...

SHAFAQNA – In the third year of Hijrah, the War of Uhud (near Medina, beside the Uhud Mountain)started between the armies of Islam and disbelievers. In this war, 70 Muslims were martyred and many were wounded. One of the wounded was the Prophet of Islam (PBUH), his front teeth were broken and he sus...

SHAFAQNA – On March 10, 2016 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran wa ed against the danger of sectarianism – denouncing those powers which have engineered tensions within the Islamic World out of a desire for control. Speaking before the newly elected Assembly of Ex...

SHAFAQNA – Is Islam an inherently peaceful religion or is it a religion essentially predisposed to violence? Questions of this nature have preoccupied Weste public discourse in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, and interlocutors have demanded easy, pat responses to such dichotomous queries. Islam,...

This question emanates from incorrect notion about the concept of infallibility that considers it something mandatory and gifted by God without a cause or reason. Obviously, if we are to consider infallibility as something forced, then we would consider the infallibles as people lacking free will an...

SHAFAQNA- “What Allah gave to His Prophet from them (and), you did not spur any horse for its sake (acquisition), nor any riding camel; but Allah makes His prophets prevail over whomever He wishes, and Allah has power over all things.” “What Allah gave to His Prophet from the people of the townships...

Labourer work to remove a pole outside a residential building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia February 9, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser SHAFAQNA – Foreign gove ments are pressing authorities and executives in Saudi Arabia to ensure that local construction firms make delayed salary payments to thousands of ...

SHAFAQNA – Ayah 78 of Surah Al-Isra says: “Perform Salaat at the decline of the sun (from its meridian) until the darkness of the night and (also) the Quran of dawn. Indeed the recitation of the dawn is ever witnessed.” The “Quran of dawn” (Fajr Salaat or Mo ing Prayer) is witnessed by the angels of...

SHAFAQNA – Christians across the Middle East have suffered a great deal over the past years – hunted down by radical militants, communities have been displaced, their places of worship defiled and many of their people murdered, or enslaved. Being a religious minority in the Middle East has never bee...

SHAFAQNA – A man asked Imam Ali (AS): How did you get to such a position? Imam (AS) replied: I sat in front of the door to (my) heart and did not allow anyone except God to enter. When Lady Maryam (AS) was told: Shake the tree until the fresh dates fall from it for you to eat; she asked: O’ God, bef...

SHAFAQNA- A Bahraini appellate court upheld an imprisonment verdict against prominent Shia cleric Seyyed Kamel al-Hashimi. Hashimi was sentenced by the Manama regime to a total of three years in jail – two years for insulting the Bahraini king in public, and one year for inciting anti-regime sentime...

SHAFAQNA- A group of Shia clerics in Bahrain has called for the promotion of equality in the Shia majority Persian Gulf country, which has a Su i-dominated gove ment. Nearly 40 Shia clerics said in a statement released on Tuesday that Shia citizens of Bahrain “have always called for citizenship equa...

SHAFAQNA- Sportswear company hummel has agreed a deal to manufacture the kit for the Afghanistan female football team which incorporates an hijab. The strip, which was released on Inte ational Women’s Day, is the first branded national football kit ever to to include a hijab as an inbuilt feature. T...