The Muslim community in Cape Town has reacted with shock at the loss of one of its most beloved sons, after the untimely passing of Shaykh Abd al-Rasheed Brown. Tributes have since come in from far and wide, especially amongst fellow shuyukh and students that have sought to remember him[…]
A PetroSA employee was killed when he fell 10 metres at a gas-to-liquid (GTL) refinery in Mossel Bay on Saturday, the parastatal said. The 45-year-old man fell during a planned maintenance operation. “At PetroSA strict adherence to safety is sacrosanct and we therefore wish to quickly get to the bottom[…]
A Malaysian centenarian, who had been caring for her 63-year-old disabled son, passed away on Friday, August 7. Md Diah, 101, who had no prior record of chronic illness, died at her niece’s home in Kampung Bukit Nambua with her son, Abdul Rahman Saud, by her side. Relative Siti Jaleha[…]
Afghanistan said on Wednesday it was investigating reports that Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency, was dead. The elusive Omar has not been seen in public since fleeing when the Taliban was toppled from power by a U.S.-led coalition in 2001, and there has been[…]
With doctors in South Africa facing an uphill battle to find life-saving organ donations, there remains a tremendous amount of uncertainty amongst Muslims on the Islamic perspective on this controversial issue. According to one scholar, it is permissible to be an organ donor on the condition that the person can[…]
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday apologized for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing before a U.S. judge formally sentenced him to death for killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath. The 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, who had not testified during his trial, referred[…]
“Whosoever saves a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind.” [Qur’an5:32] Death is a sensitive topic of discussion in most communities. Discussing whether or not to donate your organs after you die may be an even more sensitive subject as people never want to[…]
Comedian Trevor Noah’s grandmother has denied media reports claiming a relative was murdered and buried in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend. “They don’t know each other; we ourselves [as a family] don’t know that person,” Nomalizo Noah told News24. The 88-year-old showed visible signs of frustration as she snapped at the[…]
A US jury has decided Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should die for his role in the Boston marathon bombing in April 2013. The sentence on Friday came after 14 hours of deliberations on whether Tsarnaev, who was a teenager when he carried out the attacks with his elder brother Tamerlan, should be[…]
Whoever assaulted Stellenbosch academic and paediatrician Dr Louis Heyns must have known it would lead to serious injury or death, a forensic pathologist told the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Pathologist Daphne Anthony had testified on the large number of injuries to his body during the trial of his[…]
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