Thousands of protesters have attacked a US-led NATO base in northeastern Afghanistan to condemn a Florida-based churches plan to burn the holy Quran. Thousands of people took to streets in Faizabad town, capital of Badakhshan Province, On Friday to hold an anti-US demonstration. They were chanting slogans against the United States and hurled stones to [...]

Thousands of Afghans have taken to the streets of northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to condemn a US church’s plan to burn Muslims’ holy book, Quran. The protesters accuse the US and German governments of ordering the plan in Florida. They called on all Muslims to unite against enemies of Islam and break up ties with [...]

US President Barack Obama has reproached a church’s plan to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, Quran, and branded the plan as destructive and dangerous. “If he [Terry Jones] is listening, I hope he understands that what he’s proposing to do is completely contrary to our values as Americans, that this country has been [...]

Iran’s foreign minister has condemned a US church’s plan to burn the Quran, warning of the reactions of Muslims and the followers of other religions. Terry Jones, who heads the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, plans to torch the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Manouchehr Mottaki said [...]

The Indian government has joined other nations to denounce a plan by a US church to burn copies of Islam’s holy book of Quran. “We, too, condemn the proposed actions of the pastor,” Indian home minister, P. Chidambaram, said on Thursday. The condemnation came after head of a small church in Florida, Pastor Terry Jones, [...]

A senior Iranian commander says burning the holy Quran is part of a US scenario to distract global attention from its crimes. “By creating secondary issues and drawing public attention to marginal issues, the US government is trying to cover up its crimes and burning the Quran on September 11 by a Christian pastor is [...]

A senior Iranian cleric warns Washington of the potential dire consequences of a US pastor’s plans to burn the Quran, calling for the arrest of preacher Terry Jones. Jones, who heads the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville Florida, plans to torch the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. “The [...]

Vatican has labeled the Florida-based church’s decision about torching the Islamic holy book to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an ‘outrageous’ decision. “Each religion, with its respective sacred books, places of worship and symbols, has the right to respect and protection,” the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said in a statement on Wednesday, [...]

Hundreds of Afghans have held an anti-US protest in Kabul to denounce a plan by a church in the US to burn Islam’s holy book of Qur’an on the anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks. Some members of parliament, provincial council deputies, and clerics addressed the crowd. The protesters began throwing rocks at a passing [...]

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the increasing enthusiasm for Islam’s holy Book of Quran amongst the youth. “The increasing inclination in the society, especially amongst the youth, [to the Holy Quran] is a gift perhaps comparable to no other,” the Leader said, addressing a gathering of [...]

Iran is slated to unveil the world’s oldest Nahjul Balagha, the collections of sermons, letters and narrations, attributed to the first Imam, Ali (PBUH). Head of Iran’s National Library and Archives Ali-Akbar Ashari announced the news during the exhibition of exquisite Qurans held at the National Library. “We are planning to unveil the oldest Nahjul [...]

The 18th edition of Iran’s International Quran Exhibition has kicked off, hosting national and international publishers at Tehran’s Grand Prayer Grounds. Quran, Book of Life began on August 5 during a ceremony attended by a number of scholars and officials including the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini. Referring to the [...]

People in southern Afghanistan have protested against US-led NATO forces over desecration of the Muslim holy book of Quran. The rally was held in Trinkut city of Oruzgan province on Thursday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported. The protesters chanted slogans and called on the Afghan government to put those who desecrated the Quran to [...]

The 27th international competition of the Holy Qur’an has opened in the Iranian capital Tehran, bringing together representatives from 60 Muslim countries. The competition is held annually on reciting and memorizing the Holy Qur’an. Reciting the Qur’an with correct pronunciation is a delicate art and memorizing the holy book is also considered very important to [...]

The International Holy Quran Competitions will be held in Tehran from July 9-14. The ceremony will be attended by world’s top Quran reciters and memorizers. The 27th edition includes a story writing section. It will be held in three categories, namely Quran and Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) household, Quran and insight and humanities. Authors and researchers [...]

Tearing of Islam’s holy book of Quran by Israeli prison guards has sparked new outrage across Palestine against Tel Aviv regime’s religious bigotry. A detainees’ society reported the sacrilegious measure, asserting that an Israeli prison guard in Ashkelon jail seized a prisoner’s Quran during a cell search and tore it into pieces. Palestinian Authority Chief [...]

National Nuclear Festival has just started at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Friday. Key state and military personalities, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are present at the ceremony. Among the guests are Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi, members of the cabinet, the Guardian Council and the Parliament as well as a [...]

During the night session of the unity Week lecture, Sheikh Sharif Adam El-Yaqoub from Minna delivered a lecture on Steps towards Attaining unity of the Ummah. Sheikh Sharif is a renown scholar, a lawyer and presently the Chairman of Sharia Implementation Committee in Minna, Niger state. Sheikh Sharif started by expressing the issue of unity [...]

By the break of Day; vow to break of Day!; Vow to The Inqilab-i Islami Sun which lighting our century… Oh my brothers in this Umayyad Mosque as well as those in the vast mosque of the world of Islam! You, too, take warning. Take warning from the dreadful events of the last forty-five years. [...]

What is the Risale-i Nur? The Risale-i Nur collection is a six-thousand-page commentary on the Quran written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in accordance with the mentality of the age. Since in our age faith and Islam have been the objects of the attacks launched in the name of so called science and logic, Bediuzaman Said [...]