SHAFAQNA –xa0In a case of alleged discrimination in the US, a young Muslim woman was fired from her job at a dental clinic for wearing a hijab as her employer wanted to keep a “neutral environment” in office. Najaf Khan, who was hired as a dental assistant at Fair Oaks Dental Care in Fairfax County,...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question about obtaining a qualification by cheating. Question: If by cheating, a qualification is obtained which is effective in our lives, what is the religious duty? The Grand Ayatollah Sistani: Cheating is Haram but if the ability and expertise f...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi answered a question about trustworthiness when news is summarized by reporters. Question: Many speeches, declarations, interviews and similar cases have long texts; and the reporter is forced to summarize them. By summarizing, there is a possibility tha...

SHAFAQNA-xa0When Imam Reza, peace be on him, was bo , the earth shined; waves of delight and happiness spread through the Household of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his Household. As for Imam al-Kazim, he received with more delight the news of the birth of his blessed baby, so he hurried to h...

SHAFAQNA-xa0The Lebanese national delegation to the Rio Olympics prevented Israeli team from sharing a bus on the way to the opening ceremony on Friday.Israeli media quoted the sailing coach of the Israeli team Udi Gal as saying that when the Lebanese delegation realized that it was slated to share ...

SHAFAQNA-xa0In a case of alleged discrimination in the US, a young Muslim woman was fired from her job at a dental clinic for wearing a hijab as her employer wanted to keep a “neutral environment” in office. Najaf Khan, who was hired as a dental assistant at Fair Oaks Dental Care in Fairfax County, ...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Many are familiar with “The Vicar of Baghdad,” Canon Andrew White, the head of one of the most prominent relief charities helping thousands of Christians displaced by ISIS, but many don’t know that much of the work White gets credit for is actually carried out by a Muslim woman. Meet Dr...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Pakistani schools are reportedly teaching religious “fanaticism” and “extremism,” with children textbooks inciting violence and hatred toward non-Muslims, a study by the National Commission for Justice and Peacexa0has revealed. “It is a red flag for the gove ment, which must ask the Chu...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Sickening racist abuse regularly posted by warped trolls on Facebook — worsened since the Brexit vote — depicts ethnic minorities as “scum”, “rapists” and “terrorists” and orders them to leave the UK, Daily Star Online has found.The UK voted to leave the EU in June.But last year net mig...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Coptic Christians are currently being persecuted and are suffering from various religion- motivated attacks by radical Muslims in Egypt. Various human rights groups have been voicing out their conce s on the evident rise in violence against the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in Egy...

SHAFAQNA- Ibn Tawus was bo on 15 Muharram 589 (21 January 1193) in Hilla and was named Tawus (peacock). One of his forefathers was a handsome man with ugly legs so his progeny too inherited the title from him.xa0During his first 14 years of his life he was brought up and taught under many teachers i...

SHAFAQNA – In a letter to his son, Imam Khomeini wrote: One of my recommendations to you is that, choose your friends from those who are pious, committed and considerate towards spirituality (religion), and those who do not love the world, nor are inclined to its vanities, those who use wealth and a...

SHAFAQNA –xa0I seek refuge in God from Satan, the Renegade. In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds, and may He bless all the prophets and the messengers and the rightly-guided Imams of the path of guidance, especially the Seal of the...

SHAFAQNA –xa0 For the third consecutive week, Bahraini worshippers at Imam Al-Sadiq mosque, where largest Shia Friday prayer is held, had to perform their prayers alone (without being led by the Imam) after the authorities prevented the Imam of the mosque and large number of worshippers from enterin...

SHAFAQNA –xa0 Pakistan’s Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan visited the ailing Majlis Wahdat ul Muslimeen (MWM) Pakistan leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri in a local hospital on Friday in Islamabad. The interior minister wished well-being for the MWM chief requesting him to forgo h...

SHAFAQNA –xa0The United States has welcomed 8,000 Syrian refugees so far and will settle 2,000 more by the end of September, a US official says. “We can now say we have welcomed 8,000 Syrian refugees so far this year and we are very confident we will welcome at least 10,000 refugees from Syria by th...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi answered a question about investment in non-Islamic banks. Question: What is the ruling about investment and ea ing interest from them in non-Islamic banks? The Grand Ayatollah Makarem: It is allowed, except when we know that the money is being invested...

SHAFAQNA – In a letter to moawiyeh, Imam Ali (AS) wrote: Verily, the world amuses the human beings in order to keep them away from other things. The worshippers of the world do not ea anything from the world except a door to greed is opened to them, and the flame of their love of the world becomes m...

SHAFAQNA –xa0France has done it again. The arrogant Weste power has once again spoken against Muslim women while alleging to speak for their freedom, and civil liberties – this liberation entails of course the removal of the hijab! What is it with France and the hijab? My question is not a rhetorica...

SHAFAQNA –xa0Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States is a hate-based idea that not only contradicts the basic American value of religious freedom, but would also never work and cost tens of billions of dollars. That’s the conclusion of an NBC News report based on a sur...