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  • Jordan to host 'world's largest refugee camp'

    Al-Zaatari refugee camp near Jordan's northern border with Syria is the second largest refugee camp in the world. On days when violence in Syria worsens, between 2,000-4,000 Syrians flood into Zaatari, and the stories they tell are horrific. "Things are happening in Syria that our minds couldn't even imagine," 65-year-old Nada Salim Abdullah,.. More

  • Innovations during the Month of Rajab

    Allah Almighty bestows favors and grants bounties upon His slaves, during all times, to help expiate their sins, elevate their ranks and make up for their shortcomings. Allah Almighty legislated for us a month during which we observe fasting, another which we perform pilgrimage in, and one or two extra days to fast during the remaining months. He also.. More

  • Social Evils that are Destroying Muslim Communities - II

    Severing ties with kinfolk: The most important of kinfolk are one's parents, and yet we find many people dealing with them in an inappropriate manner or even severing ties with them altogether. As for those who do try to fulfil the needs of their parents, many of them do it begrudgingly, while expressing discontent or complaining that it is a burden.. More

  • Lives in limbo: Displaced Muslims in Myanmar

    Rights groups say the Rohingya in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar face some of the worst discrimination in the world. On a sweltering Sunday afternoon, Roma Hattu was rolling around on the bare concrete floor of the abandoned single-story building her family shares with three others behind Thetkepyin camp, breathing heavily and moaning. The 30-year.. More

  • New coronavirus can spread between humans, says WHO official

    World Health Organization expert plays down fears of pandemic, saying prolonged contact is needed to transmit disease. A World Health Organization (WHO) official has said it seems likely that a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe can be passed between humans, but only after prolonged contact. A virus from.. More

  • The Relationship between the Jinns and Humans - II

    5- Causing diseases (especially the plague) to the humans: Abu Moosa Al-Ash‘ari, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said, “The end of my Ummah would come through stabbing and Taa‘oon.” They said, “O messenger of Allah! We know stabbing, but what is the Taa‘oon?&rdq.. More

  • The Relationship between the Jinns and Humans - I

    The world of Jinns and devils and the world of humans are two different worlds. The world of the humans is visible to the Jinns, while the world of Jinns is a matter of the unseen for humans. The connection between the two worlds exists - in its worst form - in the form of subjection, sorcery, jugglery and mutual exploitation. If we contemplated the.. More

  • The 'art' of deception: A new phenomenon

    Allah, the Almighty Says (what means):{O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one withinformation, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful}[Quran49: 6] Deception is a necessary tool for the success of wickedness.Fortunately, most of us are not so corrupted that we could.. More

  • Asad's thugs massacres of Sunni families and children

    The pictures appear to tell a familiar story. In one a pile of bodies lies on a street corner, shot down, apparently where they were gathered. Among them is a girl in a red blouse, perhaps five years old, spread-eagled among a dozen other family members, some covered in sheets. A baby's legs are visible and a crumpled man has apparently been shot through.. More

  • How Guantanamo's horror forced inmates to hunger strike

    When the military doctors force-feed Guantánamo Bay detainee Fayiz al-Kandari with a tube shoved into his stomach there are three stages to the pain. First, there is the sensation of the tube passing near his sinuses as it is pushed through his nose and into his throat, which causes his eyes to water. Then there is an intense burning and gagging.. More

  • Anger at UNRWA in Gaza grows

    Anger and protests against the UN relief agency continue in Gaza, where Palestinians believe the agency should do more. “It’s all so surreal to me,” 15-year-old Ala’a al Masri told Al Jazeera. “We have to try and satisfy our physical needs for vitamins and fruit by watching it on TV.” The teenager and her family.. More

  • Mogadishu rebuilds despite uncertain peace

    The Somali capital has suffered decades of war and failed governance, but is still looking to its future. Here in Mogadishu, Somalia's shattered capital, a sustained period of relative calm holds, allowing the city's buildings to come back to life, thanks to a massive reconstruction effort. Laborers gather at dawn, hauling pails of stone and work tools,.. More

  • The Mujahid - Abu Ayyoob Al-Ansari

    He is Abu Ayyoob Al-Ansari Khalid ibn Zayd, may Allaah be pleased with him. He was the grandson of Malik ibn An-Najjar and his mother was Hind bint Sa‘eed. The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, made him the brother of Mus‘ab ibn ‘Umayr, may Allaah be pleased with them. He witnessed the Second Pledge of Al-‘Aqabah. After.. More

  • Afghans stranded in Pakistan's no-man's land

    Generations of Afghan refugees raised in Pakistan now face the prospect of returning to a home they have never known. Ali Muhammad, an Afghan resident of Chaghai, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, was born in 1981, as his family was fleeing the Afghan-Soviet war for the relative safety of Pakistan. Today, 32 years later, he and 12 of.. More

  • Tactics of the accursed devil in misleading people - III

    Examples of the plots and cunning of the devil 8. Private conversation is from the devil. The private conversation that is from the devil is the one that involves conspiring against the truth or conspiring to harm a Muslim individual or to cast doubts in his heart. Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {Private conversation is only from Satan that.. More