SHAFAQNA – Fighters for the militant group Boko Haram have been trained in Somalia on Africa’s easte coast before retu ing to West Africa, Somalia’s president told a security conference in Germany on Sunday. Somalia, plagued by political in-fighting, corruption and attacks by al Shabaab insurgents, ...

SHAFAQNA – Indian Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said that terror groups like ISIS are enemies of both humanity and Islam. Naqvi was in Anand district in the weste Indian state of Gujarat to attend the inaugural ceremony of two-day inte ational spir...

SHAFAQNA – The American Islamic Outreach Foundation hosted a “Meet your Muslim neighbor” event, inviting thousands of people in the surrounding community to do just that. On Saturday afte oon, a Muslim call to prayer echoed through the Islamic Community Center of South Charlotte, a foreign sound to ...

SHAFAQNA- The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, Justice Human Rights Organization, Center for Human rights in Bahrain and Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Bahrain signed the statement, the Manama Post reported. It was release...

SHAFAQNA – The UK gove ment is reportedly considering putting all Islamist terror convicts in a single secure unit, which could become a British version of Alcatraz or Guantanamo Bay. A review by Justice Secretary Michael Gove, due to be published in March, is examining how convicted Islamist terror...

SHAFAQNA – Washington has called on Turkey to cease massive artillery fire on Kurdish targets near the city of Azaz in northwest Syria, including an air base recently retaken from Islamist rebels, and to “deescalate tensions on all sides.” “We are conce ed about the situation north of Aleppo and are...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA – Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria. The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Ali (AS) who said: May God bless the one who takes the steps to prepare the elevation of his/her own soul; and prepares himself/herself for the world of the grave; and finds out where he/she has come from, where he/she is and where he/she will go [1]. A human bein...

SHAFAQNA – If you look at the situation in a bank, you will see that the bank clerk sometimes receives others money and at other times pays back people’s money back to them. The clerk is neither happy when receives the money nor unhappy when pays back the money because the bank is only a depository....

SHAFAQNA – Since the Yemeni southe seaport city of Aden fell to the control of the Saudi-led coalition, under the supervision of the UAE, al-Qaeda militants have managed to encroach themselves further onto the region, de facto tu ing Aden into their new headquarters – an interesting development in t...

SHAFAQNA – Just like it did in Syria, Saudi Arabia and its allies have weaved a narrative of war and lies to better criminalized their opponents and rise the only voice of reason among chaos. Yemen today has been sold to the wolves of corporate media, so that the world could lea to hate in good cons...

SHAFAQNA – A man was caught on camera verbally abusing a Muslim taxi driver in Derby, UK. The victim filmed the shocking abuse on his mobile phone after the passenger launched an unprovoked outburst, telling the driver “all Muslims should be bu ed”. The footage shows the 58-year-old Muslim driver, w...

SHAFAQNA – In a rather alarming tu , search engine giant Google suggests Muslims support terrorism. Upon searching “American Muslims report terrorism,” Google suggests that perhaps you mean to type “American Muslims support terrorism.” Google’s suggestion was first discovered by a Muslim-American bl...

SHAFAQNA – Usury is Haram (forbidden) in all Divine religions and definite punishments have been promised in the holy Quran by the Supreme Being for all those who engage in this Haram act. Ayah 161 of Surah Al-Nesa says: “That they took usury, although they were forbidden, and that they devoured oth...

SHAFAQNA – Saudi Arabia will send special forces to Syria to fight the Islamic State (ISIL, or Daesh in Arabic) if the US-led coalition starts ground operation, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said Friday. On February 5, reports emerged suggesting that Saudi Arabia was possibly preparing ...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has stated: “The United States gove ment was very supportive and very positive about the kingdom’s readiness to provide special forces to the operation in Syria.” It seems Washington and Riyadh have not lea ed from their past mistakes, of which there have been m...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from the prophet of Islam (PBUH) who said: When a believer passes away, his/her deeds end in this world except in three cases: an ongoing charity, knowledge from which other people continue to benefit from, and righteous children who pray for their parents [1]. [1] Beharul ...

SHAFAQNA- Peace be upon you. Oh daughter of the Commander of the faithful (Pbuh)! Peace be upon you, Oh daughter of Fatimah, Two Worlds” Radiant Lady (SA). Peace be upon you. Oh righteous one, pleasing to Allah. We speak of Hazrat Zeinab (AS). She well conveyed the message of Karbala“s uprising and ...

SHAFAQNA- The event of Ghadir took place on the tenth of the hegira year but there are different views about Imam Ali’s date of birth. However, if we are to determine the Imam’s date of birth, it depends on which report is considered to be stronger and more authentic. Only then one can determine, wi...

The question consists of two parts and each part has to be dealt with separately: A) The alleged saying from the Prophet (S) about fasting on Ashura There is not a tradition in Shia’s reliable sources in which Prophet Muhammad (S) may have said that fasting on the day of Ashura is recommended but th...