By Erica L Green When the White House invited Muslim community leaders for a dinner this week celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, the responses started coming in fast: Decline. Decline. Decline. Many of the invitees, distressed over President Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, said they would not attend an iftar meal with...
Zakat is one of the major religious duties in Islam. Literally, zakat means to “purify”. It refers to the purification of a believers’ wealth and soul. Wealth purification denotes the mobilization of assets for the purpose of financial growth and justified distribution. Purification of the soul implies freedom from hatred, jealousy, selfishness, uneasiness and greed....
“Seven hundred churches in Kigali? Are these boreholes that give people water?” asked President Paul Kagame when he heard that more than 700 churches had been closed down by authorities. “I don’t think we have as many boreholes. Do we even have as many factories? But 700 churches, which you even had to close? This...
Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Displaced by Israeli bombardment, the Tabatibi family gathered in central Gaza to eat together during the first Friday night of Ramadan, a reunion that soon turned into a bloodbath. An air strike hit the building where they were staying as women prepared the pre-fasting meal, killing 36 members of the...
RIYADH: The General Directorate of Passports at Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Airport in Madinah is ensuring efficient entry for Umrah performers during Ramadan this year. The directorate has launched a comprehensive strategy involving advanced technology and highly trained personnel to ease the entry of pilgrims into the Kingdom. Biometric devices for streamlined identification have been...
BY: MANSOOR ALAM The month of Ramadan provides us with a perfect opportunity to unplug from the Matrix and rediscover our singular source of divine guidance. Those who fast do have to unplug from their daily physical routine anyway. Let this then provide an incentive to try to unplug from the Matrix as our Prophet ﷺ...
Kenya’s parliament head has ordered the education ministry to look into claims that a university in the country is making Muslim students go to Christian services. Daystar University, a private Christian school near Nairobi, is also said to be keeping back grades of students who don’t go to chapel. The university says this isn’t true,...
BY: MANSOOR ALAM The Quran says that it can remove all human differences and conflicts if humans were to follow its divine laws. Muslims have created so many differences and they fight amongst themselves and waste their energy at every front – social, political, economic, religious, cultural, etc. Many governments try to remove some of these...
Dates imported and cleared between March 1- April 20, 2024, will be exempted by MAUREEN KINYANJUI The Muslim community has a reason to smile after the government exempted them from paying taxes on dates imported for the holy month of Ramadhan. In a letter dated January 29, 2024, the Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung’u noted that the taxes...
President Joe Biden’s campaign manager traveled to Michigan and found some top activists unwilling to meet with her ByJOEY CAPPELLETI and WILL WEISSERT DEARBORN, Mich. — President Joe Biden’s campaign manager traveled to suburban Detroit on Friday, where many Arab Americans are enraged over the administration’s Israel policy, and found a number of community leaders unwilling to meet...