SHAFAQNA- Second Verse وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ شَهِدْنَا أَنْ تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَٰذَا غَافِلِينَ أَوْ تَقُولُوا إِنَّمَا أَشْرَكَ آبَاؤُنَا مِنْ قَبْل...

SHAFAQNA- ‘Hijab’ literally means a veil or cover. Islam requires men and women to observe Hijab in their own ways. The question arises to whether Hijab is just a personal deed or does its observance or violation affect the society. In other words, can we really say that Hijab is one’s personal choi...

SHAFAQNA- By Sheikh Hamid Waqar A Muslim’s gratitude towards Allah is of such importance that he should strive night and day to be thankful of the Lord’s bounties. Being grateful is expressing one’s satisfaction of Allah’s blessings, either verbally or through action. There are many verses of the Qu...

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SHAFAQNA – An EU member aspirant Turkey has become a European political liability now that the i er nature of its brutal regime has come up to the surface, unveiling very undemocratic tendencies. As Turkish President Recep Erdogan has worked to tighten his grip over Turkey, his human rights track re...

SHAFAQNA – The Russian Federation has delivered hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to several of Syria’s most conflict-ravaged provinces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. About 620 metric tons of humanitarian aid and medicine have been delivered to the Syrian provinces of Hama, Homs, L...

SHAFAQNA – How exactly is America figuring its way through this Presidential election? I’d say they’re asleep at the wheel with a lead foot on the throttle. The real reason that the Trump campaign is polling so well is that he has obliterated the artificial distinction between American pop culture a...

SHAFAQNA- A Bahraini appellate court has 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 sen...

SHAFAQNA- The Muslim Community of South Central Pe sylvania held a forum on Sunday called, “United Against Hates.” The purpose of the forum was to educate people about what it means to be Muslim and to address Islamophobia. Many in attendance say they worry about extremists as much as anyone else. E...

SHAFAQNA- Drafts of the documents on the pursuit of peace in Palestine discussed at the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit were finalized and are ready to be endorsed at the heads of state meeting on the final day of the two-day summit in Jakarta. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno ...

SHAFAQNA – Between inte al battles and mounting casualties caught in the fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Yemen is struggling. Saudi blockades on imports and humanitarian aid has cut the country off from supplies that sustain nearly 14.7 million people who were already suffering from a histor...

SHAFAQNA – A suicide attack at a court compound killed at least eight people in northweste Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in areas around the volatile Mohmand tribal area. Senior police official Sohail Khalid told Reuters that three police perso el were among a...

To go with AFP STORY: Fear pervades Nigerian city at heart of Islamist insurgency by M.J. Smith A female student stands in a bu t classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a private nursery, primary and secondary school bu t by the Islamist group Boko Haram to keep children away from school in Mai...

SHAFAQNA – The word cali is used 226 times in the Hebrew scriptures. The following study examines all of these occurrences at least briefly. The Massoretic text of the Hebrew Bible is the source, but I have ignored the Massoretic pointing of the word cali, rather examining each context for clues to ...

SHAFAQNA – Speaking at a meeting with members of the Secretariat of the Association of Members of the Mosques of Qom, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi discussed those principles many continue to associate with democracy-building and individual freedom: the separation in between the state and the...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) said: Are you not living in the place of your predecessors who lived longer than you, their relics lasted longer, their desires were more than you and their armies were larger than yours? How did they worship the world and chose it for themselves? And after all that they pas...

SHAFAQNA – A person told the late Grand Ayatollah Bahjat: I decided to get close to God, please guide me. The Grand Ayatollah replied: Allocate a time during the 24 hours to religious sciences and put into practice the knowledge (gained) and do not trample the knowledge under foot; that is enough. I...

SHAFAQNA – United States presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have maintained their status as front-ru ers in the latest round of voting for their party’s nomination. Ted Cruz has won nominating contests in Kansas and Maine, denting frontru er Trump’s momentum and bolstering Cruz...