Archive for month: October, 2014

Some Yemeni Zaydi scholars, in a meeting with the General Secretary of the international Islamic Awakening Association, emphasized that Ayatollah Khamenei is not just Iran’s leader but the leader of all Muslims in the world.

On Saturday evening of 18th October, Dr Ali-Akbar Velayati the General Secretary of the international Islamic awakening association met with some Zaydi scholars from Yemen and said: “We are aware of your victories and we are very glad about it. Our relation with Houthis go back a long time and we are familiar with the thoughts of Allamah Sadruddin al-Houthi who is the spiritual leader of Ansarullah and the father of the martyr Husayn al-Houthi and Abdul-Malik al-Houthi who is the leader of Houthis in Yemen. I am happy that the Houthi and revolutionary leader of Yemen lead wise and brave movements in that country.”

Dr Velayati added: “Ansarullah brought about a transformation in Yemen which is unique in the history of this country and Ansarullah’s consecutive victories prove that everything is based on an organized plan”. He indicated that they should learn from the past events and overcome the obstacles one by one.

He continued: “We know that your goals have not been achieved during the past 3 years after the downfall of Abdullah Saleh. What was known as “Gulf transition Plan” was not suitable for Yemen and Ansarullah refused this plan wisely.”

He stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran is very proud of Ansarullah’s brotherly treatment of other religions and they hope a role like Hezbollah’s in Lebanon is played by Ansarullah in Yemen. Mentioning Lebanon’s Hezbollah cooperation with Lebanese Army, Dr Velayati stated: “In the last years Lebanese Army and Hezbollah fought together against the terrorists and defeated them. The fact that Yemeni Army cooperated with Ansarullah in Sana’a is a proof that Ansarullah has public acceptance in Yemen.”

Velayati underlined that Iran supports the Islamic awakening movements, including Yemen’s Ansarullah and said, “The Islamic Republic supports Ansarullah as it sees the movement in line with the materialization of a part of the Islamic awakening. In some countries Islamic Awakening movements started but they faced defeats, however we are hopeful that they will gain success soon and the Islamic awakening will spread worldwide and the Islamic world will overcome its enemies and the Zionists.”

In a response to a question asked about the effects of Yemen’s revolution, he expressed: “The important issue is that the road to freeing Palestine passes from Yemen since Yemen has a strategic location and is near Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman and Bab al-Mandeb.”

At the end he stated that supporting the campaign for freeing Palestine and supporting the resistance can be one of the most important favours of Yemen for Palestinians. He continued: “In the last war in Gaza, the only country which supported Palestinians, both in deeds and words, was the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Palestinian leaders in Gaza announced that what they had and what helped them in the fight against the Zionists was Iranian’s support.”

Zaydi scholars in this meeting also stressed that Ayatollah Khamenei is not just leader of Iran but he is the leader of the entire Islamic world.

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Pictures taken during the first gathering of Ashura Mourning at Husainiyyah baqiyatullah, Zaria on 1st of Muharram 1436 (24/10/14). Sheikh Zakzaky delivered lecture on the fall of new Islamic Year 1436, the significance of new year and bloody act of the enemies of the Prophet (S) who killed his son Imam Husain (A) in the sacred month of Muharram. Hijrah, Sheikh said, is Sunnah of the Prophet and it was not initiated by any body as claimed by those who want to give credits to their favorite ones.

Sheikh further spoke on the migration of the Prophet to Medina, formerly Yathrib. It was renamed the City of the Prophet ( ie Madina) or Tayyba. The city became the city of Islam with the coming ot the Prophet (S), thus Islam got a center where Islam can be fully practiced. This shows the necessity of having Islamic state where  it can be fully practiced at full scale. From Medina Islam spread to other parts of Arabian peninsula to the extent it reached the whole world. For Islam to have center where it spread to other parts of the world is necessity.

Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is a creation of enemies of Islam to give it a bad name, just like Boko Haram in Nigeria. All this is done to show that Boko haram and ISIL are trying to establish Islam, thus portraying Islam in bad shape. Whereas  the first center or state of Islam established- that is Madina by the holy Prophet, there was no single blood shed. In contrast, the people of Medina received the Prophet warmly as they sing the praise of him  to welcome him to the new city.

The Prophet entered Madina after having stayed for a while at Quba, waiting for his family members to arrive. Imam Ali (A) left Mecca with the family members of the holy Prophet. Before he left Mecca he challenged the pagans to chase him if they are really strong enough to face him. A group of youths, instigated by their masters, chased  him to fight him. They could not face the young Ali, though one of them tried to challenge him but humiliated. The Imam arrived in Quba, where he met the holy prophet and together they entered Medina.

Those who claimed Islam flourished through war and fighting should know that Medina – the first Islamic center,  received him and made him leader peacefully. Not only that the people of Medina defended their new leader against attacks by pagans and their allies with their blood and wealth. Medina became a center where Islam governed peacefully, without shedding of blood. Contrary to present new groups, who resorted to killings and destructions, on behalf of the enemies of Islam who created them.

Supplication of imam Hussain was recited by Leader and closing prayer.

A senior official of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says the ISIL Takfiri group is committing the most heinous crimes against the Muslims and the holy Qur’an.

The barbaric acts by the ISIL group and Takfiris are a clear example of anti-Islam moves and are regarded as the worst crimes that could be committed against Muslims and Qur’an, said Sheikh Ali Damoush, the director of Hezbollah’s external relations office, during a Thursday gathering in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.

He added that Takfiri groups such as ISIL are disseminating their evil thoughts and tarnishing the image of Islam and Muslims by raising doubts among non-Muslims and waving a flag which reads “God is great.”

He added:”Wahhabi groups spent more than USD 80 billion last year to promote Shiaphobia around the globe.”

Damoush also called on Muslims to stand up to the ISIL and other Takfiri groups operating in Syria and Iraq.

Lebanon has also been rocked by the spillover of the conflict in Syria.

Recently, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah also has said the Lebanese resistance movement is determined to defeat terrorists and Takfiri militants.

He said the resistance movement is strong and will be victorious in its fight against the terrorists.

The ISIL terrorists currently control large swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq. They have committed terrible atrocities in both countries, including mass executions and the beheading of local residents as well as foreign nationals.

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A senior Israeli police officer said Thursday that the police might not be able to entirely stop the current Palestinian intifada (uprising) in occupied Jerusalem, but it would attempt to reduce its severity.
 
He stated in press remarks on Thursday that the Israeli police could decrease the tension and impose a period of relative calm in the holy city by intensifying its presence in its neighborhoods and using extreme force against protestors.

Widespread violent clashes, described as unprecedented since the second intifada, have been raging since Thursday morning in east Jerusalem between Palestinian young men and Israeli troops in protest at the killing of 20-year-old Abdul-Rahman Shaludi by Israeli guards at the railroad station in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Meanwhile, the Israeli police declared a number of entry restrictions on Muslims’ access to the Aqsa Mosque on Friday.

A large number of Israeli security forces have been deployed since the early morning hours in the vicinity of the Old City and the Aqsa Mosque.

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