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SHAFAQNA- Every act of the human being has a spiritual reality to it. All your decisions leave an impression on your soul. Narrations tell us that when we sin, a black dot appears on our hearts and when we partake in good deeds, a white dot appears. If we sin too much, soon our heart will become com...

SHAFAQNA- We are accustomed with the thought that the faith we believe in and the world we live in are two separate states. It is generally assumed that if one leads an Islamic way of life then one will not be able to enjoy in this world. This leads to a notion that having an Islamic faith implies i...

SHAFAQNA – Sarah Syed, a clinical psychologist from the suburbs of Chicago, spent Valentine’s Day weekend visiting her sister in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Donald Trump had just won the New Hampshire primary, and his success was starting to worry her. Like many Americans, she had initially considered T...

SHAFAQNA – Hours after Damascus confirmed that it would hold a ceasefire, and allow for diplomatic talks to resume, Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu a ounced Turkey will not honour a pla ed cessation of hostilities in war-hit Syria if its security is threatened. “This ceasefire is actually fo...

SHAFAQNA – News reports coming out of Iraq this Friday have confirmed that Daesh militants executed an imam in Mosul, after he opposed the ideology of Takfir fronted by the terror, and called for all able men and women to resist such movement in whichever way they can. As a religious leader, Fawasz ...

SHAFAQNA – There is a new dog in town and it does not play by any “rules of engagement”, militarily or otherwise. A disposable pawn in a grander game of chess, the EU stands those days at the mercy of a very potent threat: destabilization by mass-migration. With wars raging across the MENA – Middle ...

SHAFAQNA – Luqman who was a scholar, had a master who ordered him to cultivate sesame in his land (master’s land) but Luqman cultivated barley instead. At the time of harvesting, the master asked Luqman why did you cultivate barley when I ordered you to cultivate sesame? Luqman replied: I was hoping...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Sadeq (AS) who said: There are three occasions when excuses are not accepted from anyone; retu ing something that is left in trust to its owner whether the owner is good or bad person; to be faithful to one’s promise/agreement/treaty with a good or bad person; and...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: Whoever helps an oppressor knowing that person is an oppressor, has gone out of Islam [1]. [1] Beharul Anwaar, Vol. 75, page 377. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleWhere and when excuses are not accepted? This entry passed thr...

Sado Ibrahim has been wearing a hijab for almost 25 years – a personal choice she said she made after leaving her family in Somalia in the 1990s. She is encouraging other women to do the same on Thursday during Ottawa Hijab Solidarity Day, or at least try one on, in the name of educating non-Muslims...

SHAFAQNA- Muslims from Michigan State University (MSU) and East Lansing communities came together and were given the opportunity to share their experiences, both positive and negative, in an event sponsored by the Committee on Diversity of MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine called “Visions for the ...

SHAFAQNA- The Shi’a Islamic Movement of Nigeria says it has severed ties with a panel set up by the National Human Rights Commission to investigate the December 2015 alleged attack on the chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai, by Shi’a members. While the army claimed Mr. Buratai was under attack, the S...

SHAFAQNA – According to the Quran, the Quranic revelations have various characteristics and two of those special ones are mentioned here.1. The Quran is a weighty Message; this is mentioned in Ayah 5 of Surah Al-Mozzammel: “By way of revelation God will send down to thee weighty (Divine) Message/Wor...

SHAFAQNA- The Islamic world today is the inheritor of an intellectual tradition which stretches back to the time of the Qura’nic revelation and beyond. Although we lack a comprehensive account in mode literature of a history of this tradition, situating it in the framework of the general history of ...

Person try to decision of question SHAFAQNA- Now we discuss the most important topics about Islamic laws, its rules and regulations and their philosophy and most of the questions and answers are based on this. “Why should we pray Prayers is the question every person asks himself? Why should a person...

SHAFAQNA- Question: A beverage was served where i asked for just lemon lime. I drank from it and noticed it tasted fu y, the waiter mentioned that it was in fact lemon lime bitters. it was literally a sip and had no idea that the beverage contained alcohol (so they gave me the wrong drink). What is ...

SHAFAQNA- The way of lea ing from al- Sadiq and discussing for evidence was not as the way we find today in the Islamic theological centers. Rather, his students, except some of them, believed in his Imamate. As we have mentioned earlier, the Imamis believe that the knowledge of the Imam did not dep...

SHAFAQNA – French archaeologists have unearthed skeletons at a burial site in south France that provide a clinching evidence of the presence of Muslim communities in the country during the early medieval period. Yves Gleize and Fa y Mendisco from the University of Bordeaux in France found that three...

SHAFAQNA – If Weste capitals and their inte ational agencies have long decried sectarianism, and all other form of overt xenophobia, may it revolve around ethnicity, social class, gender, politics or faith, those powers have nevertheless leaned on elitism and selectivism to carry both their war prop...