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Muslims Rescue & Mosques Shelter Flood Victims in India

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CHENNAI,the southern metropolis of India, experienced the highest rainfall in 100 years on Dec. 1 last year. Over a week of heavy downpour, the gates of the flooded dams were opened and parts of the city drowned with water reaching two storeys in some areas. As Chennai faced a severe crisis with many homes being…...

Chemo on the decline for cancer treatment

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Chemotherapy for decades was considered the rule for treating breast cancer and other cancers. But the method is on the wane for many cancer patients. Genetic tests can now reveal whether chemotherapy would be beneficial. For many there are better options with an ever-expanding array of drugs, including estrogen blockers and drugs that destroy cancers…...

UAE ranks as top Halal travel destination

UAE ranks as top Halal travel destination

THEUAE has ranked first in the global assessment of travel destinations with the best developed Halal ecosystems, according to the 2016-2017 Global Islamic Economy Report, developed and produced by Thomson Reuters…....

Muslim Battles During Ramadan

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1. Battle Of Badr – 2H On the 17th of Ramadan two years after Hijrah, Allah established the truth of Islam through the epic battle between the polytheists of Quraish and the Muslims. Three hundred odd Muslims, through the strength of faith and help from heaven, defeated a well-equipped army of Makkah that was three times…...

Let’s Not Get Divided Over Fiqh Differences

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Some of the Muslims with whom we come into contact completely misunderstand, or deliberately ignore the abundance of permissible differences allowed by Allah, the Judge. This has led to a perverse labelling of good Muslims as deviant or, even worse, as ‘off the straight path’. Some have travelled far to study the religion only to…...

DNA Analysis of Spain’s Segorbe Giant Reveals Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims

Genetic experts have completed a full sequencing of a DNA sample obtained from a 1,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in 1999 in an ancient Islamic cemetery near the village of Segorbe, Spain, which is located a short distance inland from the Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia. Nicknamed “the Segorbe Giant” because of his unusual height (74 inches…...

Breaking The Fast Before The Flight

Question: If the sun set upon a person and the Mu’azzin called the Adhan while he was in the airport and he broke his fast. Then after the plane took off, he saw the sun, should he fast?…...

Study on why Muslim world lags behind

TORONTO, Canada – The 57 countries that form the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) account for 23% of world population, yet less than 11% of the world’s GDP.  A study from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and the Saudi-based Madinah Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship compared Muslim countries with the rest of…...

Exhibition on Islamic Art’s Influences on Cartier

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The show, to open in Paris and then Dallas, is to include historic references and more than 200 gems. Cartier owes much of its signature style to influences from far beyond its headquarters in Paris, and this fall a new exhibition is intended to explore one of those inspirations. “Cartier & Islamic Art: In Search…...