15th shaban celebration : imam mahdi brithday

15th Shaban:The Happy and Auspicious Birthday Anniversary of Imam Mahdi (PBUH)

SHAFAQNA- Hadrat Hujjat ibn Hasan al-Askari(A.S.) the Twelfth Holy Imam, Al-Mahdi was born on 15th Shaban in 255 A.H. in Samarrah(Iraq). On this Auspicious and Solemn Occasion we extend our Heartiest and Happy Greetings to all the peace-lovers and justice seekers in the world.

15th Shaban:The Happy and Auspicious Birthday Anniversary of Imam Mahdi (PBUH)

Eid al-Mab’ath: The Greatest Ever Day

SHAFAQNA- What is the significance of Mab’ath that we religiously celebrate each year on Rajab 27?

The war THEY want you to forget: Yemen

SHAFAQNA – For over a year now, Yemen has suffered under the fire unleashed by Theocratic Saudi Arabia. Since March 25, 2015, Yemen – the most impoverished nation of Southern Arabia, and arguably the world, has withstood the military assault of a grand coalition of countries, so that Riyadh could finally claim absolute control over the region.

A grand hegemon, the kingdom does not suffer contention to its rule.

“Real Muslims don’t support violence.” by Nour Youssef

SHAFAQNA-  As a young Muslim woman living in Canada, it’s a phrase all too familiar to me. I feel pressured by everyone around me to regularly apologize for the horrific acts committed by extremists all around the world. I fear my religion will always be used to explain my behavior. I have to constantly smile and be happy because I don’t want to come off as rude or angry; I must remember to go out of my way to show the world that Muslims are not bad people, that we are not terrorists.

Brussels’ attacks – How Belgium was sold radicalism for oil

SHAFAQNA – However tragic and painfully criminal Brussels’ terror may have been it is our reaction to such attacks which will ultimately determine their success … and I would hope their failure. While there is little doubt as to whose hands were in fact involved in such senseless bloodshed, it is terror’s patrons, and terror’s agenda which still remain elusive. Rather it has been the greater public’s inability to perceive terror’s ambitions and goals which has played to our collective disadvantage – allowing for criminals to cloak themselves as righteous defenders of liberty and democracy, when their aims remain inherently nefarious.