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...
BY: ASLAM ABDULLAH Rajab is the seventh month of the Islamic Lunar Calendar. This month is a prelude to Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar in which Muslims are commanded to observe fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also one of the four sacred months besides, Muḥarram (Islamic month 1), Dhū al-Qaʿdah (Islamic...
Tigray regional leader welcomes initiative to restore mosque, which was center for first Muslims who migrated from Mecca to escape persecution Gokhan Kavak STANBUL The Turkish state development aid agency will undertake a further restoration of the Al-Nejashi mosque, which suffered damage during the approximately two-year internal conflict in Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region. Cengiz Polat,...
By Celina Tebor, Mark Morales, Emma Tucker and Zenebou Sylla CNN — Hassan Sharif, the imam who was shot Wednesday outside a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, has died, a law enforcement source tells CNN. The imam died at about 2:20 p.m., the source said. Sharif worked as a transportation security officer (TSO) at Newark Liberty International Airport since 2006, according to a statement from...
By 5Pillars (RMS) American Muslim community leaders have launched a national campaign to boot Joe Biden out of the White House at the next election because of his support for Israel’s genocidal actions. At a press conference in Chicago on Saturday the #AbandonBiden campaign pledged to punish Biden over his administration’s failure to call for a Gaza...