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The Nigerian army has opened fire on protesters demanding the release of top Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been held for four years on trumped-up allegations...

An independent member of Austria’s parliament wore a headscarf during her general assembly speech Wednesday to protest the banning of the religious head covering in...

He did not like to be known as a mystic and avoided the use of mystical words. He even did not allow us to take pictures of him. Once, a photographer came with an expensive camera and told me, "let me take a...

In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history....

Researchers at the University of Southern California studied humans, as well as mice, who went without food for two to four days at a time over a six-month period...

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb, considered that a wife is not free to leave her house whenever she wants and it is not necessary to discuss about husband’s permission for...

The city of Najaf is the home to one of the oldest Islamic seminaries in the world. Many great scholars have graduated from this Hawza. But what makes a scholar? What stages do they go through to...

According to the ISIS , the terrorist group, the fast of those who are not affiliated to ISIS is void. Hence, the ones who fast while they are not of the members of ISIS are hypocrite, and they can be...

In this video posted by French Montana on Instagram, Hollywood actor Vin Diesel is heard saying that the concept of Ramadan is “so powerful” and that “it will probably be good for anybody in life”. He describes the discipline the month brings could be a means of recharging and...

Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content, a process called autophagy. Fasting activates autophagy, which helps slow down the aging process and has a...