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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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Bahrain’s prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim has questioned the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, saying they lack value.

During his sermon at the weekly Friday Prayer in Imam Sadiq Mosque located in Bahrain’s Diraz area, Qassim said the Manama regime’s opposition groups can only take to the polls when there is some hope from participating in the elections, Bahrain’s Lulu TV channel reported.

Raising questions about a claimed democracy in the small Persian Gulf kingdom, the cleric termed as “meaningless” a democracy that only allows those supporting the government to express their views.

Opposition groups are not permitted to give their opinion, he said, adding that if none of these groups take part in the elections, “then the choice will be worthless.”

Qassim also condemned explosions and the burning of cars as “unacceptable” and “an attempt to destabilize” the country.

“It is the right of all opposition groups to have participation and supervision in the elections. … what kind of democracy is it that only allows the government to express its views? The ability of candidates is more important than their numbers,” he further stated.

Bahrainis have held protests across the country calling for the boycott of the elections scheduled to take place on November 22.

The elections will be the first since protests broke out in Bahrain more than three years ago.

Since mid-February 2011, thousands of protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling on the Al Khalifa royal family to step down from power. The protesters have also slammed the Manama regime’s arrest and torture of political activists.

Many Bahrainis have been killed and hundreds injured and arrested in the ongoing crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.

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