Investors in Makkah’s pilgrim housing facilities expect 90 percent occupancy in the first 10 days of the holy month of Ramadan when hundreds of thousands of faithful from all over the world arrive to perform Umrah and take part in special night prayers. Hotels outside Makkah expect an occupancy rate[…]
Terror claims by an East African businessman living in South Africa are said to be behind the security alert issued by the United States Embassy in Pretoria over the weekend. A source with access to South African intelligence said, however, that the businessman was believed by South Africa to be a[…]
OPINION by Haroon Moghul We need you, Muhammad Ali. Now, more than we have in a very long time. But you left us. You moved on. Friday night, a few days before Ramadan, the world’s most famous Muslim — a world champion three times over, an Olympic gold medalist, a[…]
Ramadan is known to be broken down into thirds. The first ten days of Ramadan are known as the “Ten Days of Mercy”. Muslims are aware that Ramadan is a month of spiritual opportunities, but what does the “mercy” really mean to Muslims? One of God’s names is Ar-Rahman, the[…]
Saudi authorities are still reviewing a deadly stampede which struck last year’s hajj pilgrimage, the minister of hajj and umra said on Tuesday. It was a rare comment by a senior Saudi official about the tragedy. More than 2,000 pilgrims died in the stampede, the worst disaster to ever strike[…]
As Muslims around the world prepare for fasting for the month of Ramadaan next week, the Diabetes and Ramadaan International Alliance in partnership with the International Diabetes Federation has released the “New Guidelines on Diabetes Management during Ramadaan”. The guidelines were presented this week by Professor Mahomed Omar. The guidelines[…]
Monday’s attack on a Jordanian intelligence facility, which left five dead, suggests a continuing erosion of security in a country that bills itself as one of the Middle East’s most stable. In a statement, government officials said the General Intelligence office in the Baqa’a camp was attacked by “terrorists” at[…]
Dozens of asylum seekers set fire to a migrants’ centre on Chios out of anger for being kept there. Dozens of asylum seekers set fire to a migrants’ centre on the Greek island of Chios on Monday, angry that they were being kept there, a police source said. Some 40[…]
More than a billion Muslims around the world began observing the Islamic month of Ramadan on Sunday. With almost 70,000 Muslims in Ireland, there is a strong possibility that some will be reading this article and/or fasting Muslims will be among readers’ colleagues or neighbours. Ramadan is one of the[…]
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has described as “questionable” the South African National Roads Agency Ltd’s (Sanral) “extraordinary increased revaluation of their road asset base”. The civic group on Monday also cast doubts on the revaluation’s credibility as Sanral had “performed the revaluation internally…utilising information supplied by industry experts”‚[…]
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