15th shaban celebration : imam mahdi brithday

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.

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.

Hazrat Fatimah’s Characteristics (Part 4)

SHAFAQNA- Devotedness

Fatimah (A.S) devoted herself to Allah and resorted to Him totally in all of her affairs. This was clear in her dua’a.

Hazrat Fatimah’s Characteristics (Part 3)

SHAFAQNA- Chastity and veiling

Fatimah (A.S) was the highest example in chastity, honor, and veiling for all Muslim women.

Imam Ali (A.S) said, ‘Once, a blind man asked permission to visit Fatimah (A.S), but she asked him to stay behind a screen. The messenger of Allah (A.S) asked Fatimah (A.S), ‘Why did you screen him though he is blind and could not see you?’

Hazrat Fatimah’s Characteristics (Part 2)

SHAFAQNA- Charity to the poor

Fatimah (A.S) was charitable and too kind to the poor and the deprived. She, her husband, and her two sons were meant by these Qur’anic verses, (And they give food out of love for Him to the poor, the orphan, and the captive. We only feed you for Allah’s sake; we desire from you neither reward nor thanks. 76:8-9).

Fatimah (A.S) milled wheat and barley for her poor neighbors who were unable to do that. She carried water to her weak neighbors who could not get water.