Hajj & Umra

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Iraq Says Oil Remains Option to Combat Sanctions

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said on Sunday Baghdad reserved the right to use oil as an instrument to try to lift U.N. sanctions. ``We are using all the means at our disposal to defend our people and dignity. If we use economic power to serve our own legitimate interest, then this is legal and noble,'' Sabri, who was appointed.. More

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Taliban jets bomb opposition after rockets hit Kabul on independence day

KABUL, (AFP) -Taliban jets pounded opposition-held areas Sunday, opposition sources said, as a rocket attack on the capital Kabul failed to upset Afghanistan's independence day parade.(Read photo caption below) Taliban jets carried out at least three sorties on opposition controlled areas in northern Kapisa and Parwan provinces, resistance commander.. More

1453 12/04/2001
NATO Commander in Macedonia to Assess Mission Risks

SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO's commander-in-chief was due in Macedonia on Monday to assess whether a shaky truce was firm enough for the alliance to launch its third mission in the Balkans since the Yugoslav federation fell apart in 1991.U.S. General Joseph Ralston's visit will be brief. But his judgement will be vital to a decision by NATO's.. More

1454 12/04/2001
Russians Mark 10 Years After Coup

MOSCOW (AP) - Russians looked back Sunday on the bungled hard-line coup exactly 10 years ago that fatally wounded the USSR, with some pining for the democratic passions that fired resistance to the coup plotters, others cursing the hardships that have accompanied freedom.Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed conspicuously silent on the anniversary,.. More

1455 12/04/2001
Hamas Vows to Avenge Latest Israeli Assassinations against Intifadha Activists

GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The military wing of the Muslim Resistance group Hamas said on Monday it had Palestinian bombers in Israel waiting for orders to avenge the killing in the Gaza Strip of a Palestinian intifadha activist and his two children. (Read photo caption below)Samir Abu Zeid, identified as the ``general'' of the Palestinian Popular.. More

1456 12/04/2001
Islamic Nations Want Protection for Palestinians

UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & Agencies) - Palestinians rebuked the U.N. Security Council and the United States on Monday for not taking action in the West Bank and Gaza, saying the lack of an international presence contributed to 11 months of brutal Israeli reaction to a Palestinian uprising against occupation. (Read photo caption below)But Washington,.. More

1457 12/04/2001
Diplomats to Leave Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Rejected by the Taliban, three diplomats said Monday they had to give up for now on their bid to see foreign relief workers, including two Americans, who were jailed for propagating Christianity in this Muslim nation.But the envoys from the United States, Australia and Germany said they would continue.. More

1459 12/04/2001
Bomb Injures 14 in Eastern Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A powerful bomb exploded in eastern Pakistan Monday, wounding at least 14 people, including a 3-year-old child, police said.The bomb, which police said was apparently tied to a motorcycle, detonated in an old neighborhood of the border city of Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. No group has claimed.. More

1460 12/04/2001
Sri Lanka Rebels Storm Police Station, 17 Dead

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked a police station in the east of the country on Tuesday, leaving at least 17 dead and 18 wounded, the military said. The rebels briefly overran the Central Camp police station in Ampara District, some 150 miles east of the capital Colombo, before they were beaten back by reinforcements of.. More

1462 12/04/2001
NATO Sends Troops to Macedonia

SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO took its first tentative steps toward involvement in Macedonia Friday, sending a small detachment of troops to scout out the situation and see if a full force should be sent to collect Albanian weapons.NATO's ruling council decided Friday to defer until early next week a decision on whether to send.. More

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Blasts Rock Indonesian Celebration

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Heavily armed troops patrolled the deserted streets of a restive provincial capital Friday, after separatists marred Indonesia's independence-day celebrations by setting off 16 small bombs.Meanwhile, Indonesia's political elite gathered at the state palace in Jakarta on Friday for an emotional ceremony at which new President.. More

1434 11/04/2001
Six Killed in Resistance and Counter Resistance Attacks in Kashmir

JAMMU, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Six people have been killed in two separate incidents in Indian-ruled Kashmirwhere the war for self-determination has soared since last month's fruitless talks between India and Pakistan.(Read photo caption below). An Indianpolice spokesman said border guards early on Friday killed three Resistance.. More

1435 11/04/2001
Rumsfeld: U.S. Military May Scrap Two-War Plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested on Friday the U.S. military was likely to scrap its current ``two-war'' battle plan, instead preparing to win one major conflict decisively while simultaneously repelling aggression elsewhere. ``I must say that I am increasingly comfortable with this force-sizing construct,'' he told.. More

1436 11/04/2001
22 Killed in Latest Wave of Political Violence in Algeria

ALGIERS, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Seventeen people have been killed by an armed group manning a roadblock in Algeria, locals of the Relizane region where the attack took place, police said on Monday.(Read photo caption below) The victims, all farmworkers, were travelling on small trucks when they drove into the ambush overnight Sunday close to the.. More

1410 11/04/2001
Afghan Taliban Say Foreign Aid Workers Face Trial

KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Monday that eight foreign aid workers held on charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity would have to face trial.(Read photo caption below)The Taliban ruled out any pardon for the four German, two Australian and two American aid workers, and said diplomats from their countries.. 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...