Dubai: A blind boy from Tamil Nadu, India who now resides in Dubai has received a world record certificate for Reciting Quran for long hours like a well-known international Quran Reciter. The function held in Dubai at Ramada Hotel, organized by Einstein World Achievement. An individual with a disability, Mohamed Essa Abdul Hadi, took part…
NNA – The Secretary-General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA), Professor Koutoub Moustapha Sano, affirmed that the Islamic Ummah everywhere is waiting for effective solutions from scholars to the accumulated problems and challenges of contemporary life as well as satisfactory answers to the developments and current issues (nawazil) that have been emerging in their…
Visiting the exhibition on the fight against terrorism and extremism, talking with religious groups, and interacting with local residents at the bazaar… a group of Islamic figures and scholars are paying a visit to Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to get a clear and better understanding of the region in contrast to the US-led…
The tenets of Sufism can go a long way in dealing with the menace of terrorism. Its universal appeal has the potential to heal and rejuvenate. Terrorism still continues to be one of the most serious challenges confronting mankind. India has been hit hard the most, particularly by cross-border terrorism. It has already declared zero…
The Middle East’s first World Cup hosts Qatar is proudly Muslim, and it is capitalizing on the global event to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of visiting fans to change the way they look at Islam. The Gulf emirate is the first Muslim nation to stage a football World Cup and its natural…
Sometimes it feels like we are living in two parallel worlds. If you follow the media in certain countries, this is the worst World Cup in memory. Their analysis drips with Islamophobia and condescension that is so visceral that it isn’t even used against the Russians in the killing fields of Ukraine. Yet, if you…
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized we’re living in stoppage time. I finally started to understand that that’s what our life is. A few precious moments to give it all we can even though we don’t know how much time we have on this earth. We only know that our time is…
On 20th November 2022, I sat in front of my TV to watch the opening ceremony of the biggest sporting event- the FIFA World Cup. With the skepticism and cynicism from the Western media over the past couple of months, my expectation for the ceremony was not very high. But my expectations proved me wrong.…
He was an Egyptian engineer and architect who preferred to be away from the public limelight, unknown to many: Dr. Muhammad Kamal Isma’eel (1908 – 2008) He was the youngest person in the history of Egypt to obtain high school (certificate), the youngest to get enrolled in the first Royal School of Engineering, and the…
Chicago (US): The American Federation of Muslims of India (AFMI) hosted its 32nd annual conference. The conference expressed worry over the rise of right-wing fanaticism and hate speech in India under the BJP regime, noting that it “had had a serious psychological impact on Muslims and other minorities” in that country. Although the organization was…
