Writings

IQNA:  A human rights organization called on Bahraini authorities to investigate the death of a political prisoner in jail. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) urged the Manama regime to investigate the cause of the Bahraini prisoner’s death, Al-Alam reported. It also stressed the need for providing …

IQNA: A threatening letter was sent to a Mosque in the central Netherlands, the mosque said on Friday. The letter contained Islamophobic and racist threats targeting Turkish and Moroccan communities in the central city of Almere, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Mosque said on social media. The Mosque has been …

IQNA: The Iranian Cultural Center in Spain has gifted Shia source books in Spanish and English to the Islamic Library of the European country. According to the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, the books were gifted during a meeting of Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi, the Iranian cultural attaché in Spain, with …

Hundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are learning martial arts to fight harassment. Hazaras, who are mainly Shia Muslims, have faced decades of sectarian violence in the southwestern city of Quetta, living in two separate enclaves cordoned off by checkpoints and armed guards to protect them. A new report by South …

Mohammad Ali Shomali The significance of fasting in Islam can be deduced from many verses of The Holy Qur’an. For example, the verses 2:45 reads: استعينوا بالصبر و الصلوه و انھا لکبيره ا علی الخاشعين And take recourse in patience and prayer, and it is indeed hard except for the …

It is the second Ramadan during the coronavirus pandemic. The Contact Body for Muslims and Government (CMO), which represents 380 mosques, has called on Muslims to celebrate Ramadan at home with the family and not to visit family and friends. The fasting starts around April 13 this year; Monday or …

This text explains the significance of the holy month of Ramadhan and its fasting. It analyses the events, rules, obligatory and recommended acts and supplications to be performed during this sacred month. The text concludes by encouraging Muslims to fast in it in order to seek Allah’s mercy and forgiveness. …

| by Mohammad Saeid Taheri Moosavi*: Islam, as the most complete religion, has studied all the general and partial aspects of society, so it is natural that not only is it not indifferent to human rights issues, but it has presented it in the form of the general rights of …

IQNA: A group of far-right activists attacked and defaced a mosque in Limassol, Cyprus. As Greece observed its 200th anniversary of national independence on Thursday, a far-right Greek group attacked a Mosque in the Greek Cyprus city of Limassol. The attackers drew a cross and wrote “death to all Turks” …

IQNA: A teacher at a state high school in northern England was suspended after showing the offensive picture of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to children. After the British teacher showed the cartoons, about two dozen protesters gathered outside the school to denounce the move on Thursday. Local media said more people …