Health & Nutrition

Why is it permissible to eat shrimps and forbidden to eat crabs and lobsters? Please explain the difference between them, their genus, category and other distinguishing features?...

The rapidly growing Halal sector could be set for a bumper year in 2022 despite the widespread disruption to the tourism industry caused by the...

"The Belgian Muslim Executive and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium will challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg the ban imposed by the Flemish and...

The 8th edition of OIC Halal Expo and 7th World Halal Summit will be held on 25-28 November 2021 under the theme of ”New Era & New Normals: Necessity of Halal Production and Consumption” at the...

Eating and drinking are two basic and essential human needs. Just as nutritionists advise others on matters about foods, nutrition, and their impacts on health, so does divine law....

Today on June 25, 2021, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei received the first dose of the Iranian Covid vaccine. Previously, Ayatollah Khamenei had set 2 conditions for him being...

One of members of Imam Khomeini’s medical team has recalled through a series of memoirs that he was extraordinary kind and showed affection towards doctors and nurses....

Fasting means that a person must, in order to do homage to Allah, from the time of Adan for Fajr prayer up to Maghrib, avoid nine things which will be mentioned later. In some situations Qada or Kaffara or Both of them become...

Zakat al-Fitrah is a special form of obligatory zakat given at the end of the month of Ramadan, during the day of Eid...

Every year, many questions about numerous topics arise with the start of the blessed month of Ramadan. The most important of these questions are related to the crescent moon and the time of...