Hajj & Umra

Hajj & Umra

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OPEC leaves output unchanged despite falling prices

VIENNA, (AFP) -OPEC oil ministers were to meet again Thursday to formalize an accord keeping their output unchanged despite slumping prices amid a weak global economy, slowed further by US terror attacks. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers agreed to maintain the status quo in informal talks Wednesday clouded by the economic.. More

1807 23/04/2001
NATO, Macedonia Resolve Row on New Security Force

SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO envoys and the Macedonian government on Wednesday night resolved a last-minute row over the size and duration of an alliance force to buttress peace in the Balkan republic, diplomatic sources said.They told Reuters NATO's policymaking council of 19 member state ambassadors was in session to evaluate the deal.. More

1808 23/04/2001
Israeli Occupation Authorities Impose Tight Security on Intifadha Anniversary

JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israeli occupation authorities have decided that Muslim worshippers were to be allowed only limited access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem on Friday to prevent anti-occupation protests on the first anniversary of the Palestinian uprising or intifad against occupation. Even though, officially,.. More

1809 23/04/2001
Pakistani Leaders Go to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani religious leaders leave Friday for Afghanistan, the Pakistani news agency reported. The delegation may be part of a new Pakistani initiative to open a dialogue with the ruling Taliban on a possible solution to the crisis over Osama bin Laden. (Read photo caption below) The Pakistan government news agency said Thursday.. More

1810 23/04/2001
Allied Warplanes Hit Iraqi Artillery

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - U.S. and British warplanes struck two artillery sites Thursday that were a threat to aircraft patrolling Iraq's southern ``no-fly'' zone, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said.Meanwhile, in Baghdad, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz denied his country had been involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States,.. More

1811 23/04/2001
Indian State on Alert Ahead of Friday Prayers

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Police and paramilitary forces in northern India were ordered on alert on Friday after the first outbreak of communal unrest since the attacks in the United States by suspected Islamic militants. A curfew was in force in parts of Lucknow, capital of the country's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where four people were.. More

1812 23/04/2001
War on Terrorism, or War on Islam?

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The U.S. vow that war against terrorism is not war against Islam may have fallen on deaf ears as cries of jihad, or holy war, resound across the Muslim world.(Read photo caption below) The accompanying threat to strike Afghanistan in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, risks triggering a violent backlash among the world's billion Muslims. ``If.. More

1793 23/04/2001
Three Israeli soldiers hurt in Gaza Strip blast:

radioJERUSALEM,(Islamweb & News Agencies) -Three Israeli soldiers were injured early Wednesday when a booby-trap exploded near the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Israeli public radio said. One of the soldiers was seriously hurt and the other two sustained light injuries, the radio said. The blast occurred hours before Palestinian leader Yasser.. More

1795 23/04/2001
U.S. Diplomat Discusses Afghanistan with Ex-King

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. charge d'affaires in Rome, William Pope, met the former king of Afghanistan near Rome on Tuesday ``to assess the situation in Afghanistan,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. (Read photo caption below) The meeting was one of many contacts the United States has initiated with Afghan groups and individuals.. More

1797 23/04/2001
Arafat, Peres Agree on New Cease-Fire Effort

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed on Wednesday to make a new bid to forge a lasting truce that could boost U.S. efforts to create a global anti-terror coalition. (Read photo caption below)Meeting under U.S. pressure, the leaders reiterated their commitment to a truce-to-talks plan that.. More

1800 23/04/2001
Afghan Crowd Storms, Burns U.S. Embassy in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of angry Afghans stormed and set fire to the long-deserted U.S. embassy in the capital, Kabul, as part of huge protests against threatened U.S. strikes.(Read photo caption below)Two Taliban fighters climbed on to the building and used a hammer and an iron rod to rip off the U.S. seal from over the main door to the old office.. More

1801 23/04/2001
Afghan Taliban Says It Retakes Northern District

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban fighters have recaptured a key northern district lost to opposition forces at the weekend amid an intensification of fighting between the Talibangovernment and its opponents.The whole of Zari district, about 60 miles to the south of the strategic northern city, Mazar-i-Sharif, had fallen to the Taliban,.. More

1803 23/04/2001
Berlusconi Wants Islamic Civilization Conquered

ROME (AP) - Breaking ranks with allies reaching out to the Muslim world, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday said Western civilization is superior to Islam. He also said he hopes the West conquers Islamic civilization.The conservative billionaire's remarks were instantly disavowed by more moderate politicians in Italy, who called them.. More

1804 23/04/2001
Macedonian lawmakers to reconvene for peace accord vote

SKOPJE, Sept 24 (Islamweb & News Agencies) - With ethnic Albanian fighters about to surrender the last of their arsenal to NATO, the Macedonian parliament was to meet Monday to vote on draft amendments to the constitution aimed at making the peace plan law. British troops set up a collection point in the village of Brodec to gather perhaps the last.. More

1771 23/04/2001
German diplomat freed in Yemen

SANAA, Sept 24 (AFP) - German diplomat Rainer Berns, who was taken hostage in Yemen two months ago by a group of armed men, was freed on Sunday night, an official said Monday. Berns, the commercial attache at the German embassy, was freed at midnight after negotiations with tribal dignitaries, the official from Maarib province, some 170 kilometers.. More

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Hajj virtues

School of Faith in Ten Days of Thul-Hijjah

The believing human self needs strong provocations in order to awaken whenever it is enveloped by laziness in...
The Status of Hajj in Islam

Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam; Allah, The Exalted, ordained it in the ninth year after Hijrah (the Prophet's,...
School of Faith in Ten Days of Thul-Hijjah

The believing human self needs strong provocations in order to awaken whenever it is enveloped by laziness in relation...