According to the Karachi-based researcher Shahid Ali Naqvi’s book titled Azadaari, the need for a tazia arose when Taimur, who was involved in consolidating his hold on the invaded territory, could not take his army on their annual trip to Karbala so he got a model of the shrine built. It was supposed to have been plastered with khak-e-shifa, the clay from Karbala, which he got specially transported all the way to north Continue Reading…

Millions of Muslims pilgrims, marking one of the final rituals of the annual Hajj, celebrated Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) holiday on Friday, when they proceed to Mina, a small village east of Makkah, and throw stones at the devil.

Following the symbolic stoning of the devil, Muslim pilgrims also perform the ritual of sacrificing sheep and cattle, marking the first day of Eid al Continue Reading…

The most precise solar calendar, superior to the Julian, is the Jilali, devised under the supervision of Umar Khayyam.

The Quran contains many references to astronomy:

 ”And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.” 
[Noble Quran 21:33] 

These references, and the injunctions to learn, inspired the early Muslim scholars to study the heavens. They integrated the earlier works of the Indians, Persians and Greeks into a new synthesis.

Ptolemy’s Almagest (the title as we know it today is actually Continue Reading…

Pakistan’s Railway Minister and the only muslim member of the cabinet Ghulam Ahmed Bilour has announced 100000 dollars bounty on a filmmaker who made anti-Islam film that sparked protest across the Muslim world.

The great minister on Saturday said, ” We won’t tolerate such films”. He said that the issue could be resolved by killing of the filmmaker.

He announced that he would give Continue Reading…

PM Protest Against Anti-Islam Film.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today under the live speech to the Islam Lovers and the community, declared that, any kind of insult of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) will be not accepted, and if needed we can go forward more and more, until we found the relief of these kind of bull shits.

He indirectely alert the world, that we are atomic power, and specially for our Islam and religion we can protect our Islam through any kind of Continue Reading…

Thousands of people rallied across Pakistan on Sunday to denounce an anti-Islam film with protesters burning US flags and effigies of President Barack Obama, and calling to sever ties with Washington.

At least eight people were injured when protestors clashed with police outside the US consulate in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, officials said.

Police fired bullets in the air and used tear gas and water cannon to disperse some 1,000 people at the rally organised by a Shia religious organisation, according Continue Reading…