SHAFAQNA – ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at a police checkpoint in Iraq, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens more. Responsibility was claimed in a posting on the website of the Amaq news agency, which supports the terrorist organisation. “A operation with a truck bo...

What is the big secret the Church is keeping under cover, and why do they not want you to know about it? You are about to find out what the big secret is, but the reason the Church has been hiding the facts is something only Christian leaders can explain. Most Christians one meets contend that the m...

SHAFAQNA – In just a couple of weeks Yemen will have been at war for an entire year. Yemen has been pounded from the air and starved for an entire year, and yet not a word has been said of Yemenis’ hardship. Their pain and suffering have been thwarted by the implacable will of the Kingdom of Saudi A...

SHAFAQNA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed its conce about the high number of civilian casualties in Yemen due to the continuous of airstrikes on the country. “During February, a total of at least 168 civilians were killed and 193 injured, around two-thirds of them by Coaliti...

SHAFAQNA – The final stage of the first edition of Quran competition for Iranian students residing in Europe began on March 4 at Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center of Hamburg. Mohammad Mahdi Momeni, in charge of the Iranian schools in Europe, America and Canada, said that the program began at 7 p.m. local...

SHAFAQNA- Farah Felo spent Saturday asking others, including Donald Trump supporters, to accept her religion and remember one of America’s best qualities. “I think it’s important to show that America’s for diversity,” said Felo, a University of Central Florida student. “We accept everyone of all rac...

SHAFAQNA- An eight-year project came to fruition Saturday as a Baltimore community gathered to celebrate the opening of a mosque. Leaders of the mosque in Howard Park said they had to overcome some significant challenges in building it, and they were eager to celebrate the grand opening. The doors t...

Exif_JPEG_PICTURE SHAFAQNA – While world powers argue politics and strategies, religious communities in the Greater Middle East have suffered away from the limelight, condemned to a life of terror under the perpetual threats of death, and enslavement Daesh, and its partners in terror have swo to car...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA – Jesus son of Mary, a man who embodied qualities so sublime, a Prophet of Allah for Muslims and a meeting point for coming together with Christians.In Islamic traditions, Prophet Jesus pbuh is revered for his exceptional wisdom.The Quran along with several hadith speak a...

SHAFAQNA – On February 18th, 2016, an inte ational conference titled “Press Freedom under conditions of inte ational instability and terrorism” was held by the AJKF jou alist’s association, in the center of Paris. The present situation in Syria, Yemen, and other flashpoints became the central topics...

SHAFAQNA – When Saudi Arabia declared war on Yemen back in March 2015, several of its officials proclaimed high and low that their intentions were merely to restore Yemen’s institutions and prevent the rise of the kingdom described as a Shia takeover by Iran. Of course such claims were made to defle...

SHAFAQNA – If you’ve seen the final episodes of either ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,’ ‘Survivor,’ or even ‘Big Brother,’ you’ve pretty much seen the most recent installment of the Republican Party’s presidential debate. Barbs were exchanged with insults, and civility was traded for mud slinging. From h...

SHAFAQNA – If wisdom and knowledge are together, a person can reach his aim because according to a narration, the wisdom is described as: The thing which with it, the servitude of God and the paradise can be attained [1]. Of course the wisdom of many people are caught up with their desires (desires ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: The condition of the believer is like a hyacinth that the quick wind moves it, sometimes it stands up and sometimes bends; but disbelievers are not flexible towards people, they are like hard trees (for example pine trees) that upr...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about freezing the body (corpse) of a Muslim. Question: Is it allowed for the phenomenon of freezing the body of the human beings (cryonic) to be applied on the body of a Muslim? The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi: The body of a Muslim mu...

Turkish anti riot police officers launch water ca on and tear gas to disperse supporters of the Turkish Zaman Daily newspaper, who demonstrate outside the newspaper headquarters on March 4, 2016 in Istanbul. An Istanbul court on March 4, 2016 ordered into administration a Turkish Zaman daily newspap...

SHAFAQNA- My uneven curls towered over my head every mo ing throughout my childhood. A little bit of baby powder and a lot of hair ironing was my secret at the time. Until one day I ditched the baby powder and simply started ironing my hijab instead. July 1, 2007 was the first time I placed a sparkl...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA – This March AhlulBayt TV published a new documentary in which it analyses the rise of Daesh aka ISIL in Iraq, and how its ideology of Takfir attempted to fragment Iraq along sectarian lines. At the root of Daesh dogma lies Takfirism, a belief system which absolutely reje...

SHAFAQNA – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi expressed his displeasure on Friday over classifying the Lebanese party of Resistance – Hezbollah as a ‘terrorist organization’ in the statement issued by the Arab Interior Ministers Council. During his meeting with Foreign Minister Khamis Al-Jehinawi,...

SHAFAQNA – The human beings do good deeds but then they remove all the (Divine) blessings they have gained from those good deeds with some other acts or sayings; like saying to someone else: First God and then you; which is considered as the hidden Shirk (ascribing others beside God) as mentioned in...