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How to perform 'Eid prayer during the COVID-19 lockdown?

London Boroughs agree to public broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer (adhān) during lockdown.

The Arab League, United Nations, and UK MPs join calls to reject plans of further occupation following the formation of Israeli coalition government

Muslim physician and philanthropist Dr Rafil Dhafir was placed in solitary confinement and was subjected to lockdown in total darkness and near-freezing temperatures all whilst his health continued to deteriorate. He has now finally returned home…

Human Aid has accused the Commission of applying “undue scrutiny” to Muslim charities, and that premature escalation to a statutory enquiry should be seen "in the context of a larger pattern of harassment of Muslim Charities at UK borders."

Dr Allamah Khalid Mahmud Sahib was a senior Muslim scholar and was among the first Ulamā’ to have settled in the UK, dedicating his life for the service of Islam, promoting it and protecting it. May Allāh have mercy on him.

Anti-racism groups slam the Equality and Human Rights Commission, calling it “a political tool of the Tories” as it drops investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party whilst continuing to investigate the Labour Party for Anti-Semitism.

The Islam21c team would like to extend their sincerest condolences to Shaykh Zahir Mahmood (and his family) whose mother has passed away to meet her Lord (subḥānahu wa taʿālā). May Allāh have mercy upon her.

His story may not have received as much “air-time” as Tom Moore, for reasons one no longer needs to speculate over. Perhaps if words like “refugees” and “Ramadan” were replaced with “homeless” and “Christmas”, it would make the front pages.

Amid poverty and unemployment coupled with the rapidly growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Afghanistan is bearing the brunt of an unprecedented crisis.