REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JERUSALEM – Walikota Yerusalem mendesak polisi untuk ‘melindungi’ papan iklan bergambar wanita.Tren akhir-akhir ini yang diprakarsai oleh Yahudi ultra-Ortodoks adalah melakukan vandalisme terhadap baliho iklan bergambar wanita dan menyerukan boikot terhadap iklan yang dibintangi wanita. Walikota Jerusalem, Nir Barkat pada hari Ahad mendesak Kepala Kepolisian Distrik, Niso Shaham, untuk menghentikan aksi ini. “Kita harus [...]
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Tiga dari Empat Mualaf Inggris Ternyata Kaum Perempuan…Ini Alasan Mereka Memilih Islam
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON – Tiga perempat dari mualaf Inggris adalah perempuan. Richard Peppiatt dari Independent telah menemukan bahwa dari 5.200 warga Inggris yang masuk Islam pada tahun 2010, lebih dari 50 persennya adalah warga kulit putih dan tiga perempat dari mereka adalah perempuan. Selain itu, peneliti yang berbasis di Swansea University juga menemukan bahwa dari 40 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Fifth Pillar of Islam: The Pilgrimage (Hajj)
The Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) is the fifth of the fundamental Muslim practices and institutions known as the five pillars of Islam. Pilgrimage is not undertaken in Islam to the shrines of saints, to monasteries for help from holy men, or to sights where miracles are supposed to have occurred, even though we may see [...]
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Nature of journey for Hajj The people of the world are usually aware of two kinds of journey. One journey is that which is made to earn livelihood. The second one is that which is undertaken for pleasure and sight-seeing. In both [of] these journeys, a man is impelled to go abroad by his need [...]
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Hajj, or the Pilgrimage, is the last among those acts of Worship, which Islam enjoins upon you. Like the prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, it mounds your life and prepares you so that you may live in surrender to Allah. The word Hajj means to make a resolve to visit a holy place: Visiting the Ka’ba [...]
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Delivered on 623 A.D at Arafat, Mecca After praising, and thanking Allah (the One God) He said: “Oh People, lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether, after this year I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and TAKE THESE WORDS TO [...]
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