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Fasting is the closest and most effective way to reach perfection and spirituality. The Holy Quran mentions the benefit of fasting to attain piety; This piety is achieved by refraining from the longing for eating and drinking and lust. Fasting is one of the Furu’ Ad-Din (ancillaries) of the religion …

1976 Swine Flu vaccine program This program, in hindsight, was mounted to gain support for the Presidential election of Gerald Ford, who was running against Jimmy Carter.  The program was conceived after a soldier died at Fort Dix (after an exhausting march) and then he and several other soldiers were …

Muslims around the globe have started fasting the holy month of Ramadan, and it’s a well-known tradition for Muslims to break their fast with dates. It is actually recommended to break our fast with dates, as Prophet Mohammad (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do, as reported in Sunnah: : “Break …

It is unfortunate that Islamic teachings are not given their righteous appreciation. Physical Education Dress Code Dilemma For Muslim Girls   Part Time Hijjabi Rules Regarding Nail Polish To make matters worse, there are many concepts and ideas that Islam brought and fought for considered in the eyes of many as …

A group of Labour activists fighting through the courts to discover why they and others were investigated or expelled from the UK’s Labour Party for antisemitism say they have flushed out proof of bad faith from their accusers. The group, who call themselves Labour Activists for Justice (LA4J), say the …

It is imperative that the administration thoroughly dismantle this discriminatory immigration policy. Although President Biden formally rescinded the Muslim Ban on Jan. 20, the day he took office, some of the ban’s discriminatory effects continue. The Trump-era policy devastated families and individuals who had hoped to immigrate to the United …

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered at a sacred Jerusalem plaza for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan after coronavirus lockdowns kept the site off-limits last year. About 70,000 faithful, most of them Arab citizens of Israel, prayed at al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, said an …

Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ansari, the famous Bahraini shia cleric, was arrested yesterday after being summoned to a police station and handed over to the prosecutor’s office for “investigation and interrogation” as they said. This is the seventh case of summoning or arresting Bahraini preacher after the Muharram decade on charges such …

IQNA: A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has passed an order related to a dispute over a centuries-old Mosque and a temple situated next to each other – a case reminiscent of a similar and bloody dispute in another temple town, controversially resolved in 2019. The court in Varanasi …

IQNA: A Paris Mosque that was shut down by French authorities as part of a crackdown on France’s Muslims following the killing of a teacher who showed his class offensive caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), reopened Friday after a six-month closure. Some 200 worshippers returned for Friday prayers at the …