Sexual intercourse and the sexual relationship with a legal spouse are governed by nature, and at the same time is a sunnah of the Prophets and the Ahlul Bayt (as). It has even been referred to as the most pleasurable thing in life. A group of companions and Shī‘as of Imām as-Sādiq (as) narrate that the Imām asked us: “What is the most pleasurable thing?” We said: “There are many pleasurable things.” Imām said: “The most pleasurable thing is making love with (your) spouses.”[28]

In an effort to scuttle Palestinian resistance, including peaceful opposition, to the harsh Israeli occupation, Israel has been arresting dozens of Palestinian college students, ostensibly for involvement in peaceful political activism on their college campuses.

Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas is behaving in a theatrical manner these days. It is very much like "now you see it, now you don't,"

“It is unfathomable how American military personnel in Afghanistan could decide to burn copies of the Holy Quran. Muslims consider destruction of the Holy Book blasphemous. A decade after the United States intervened in Afghanistan; all American forces should know that.”

In the showdown of events that have transpired in Iraq since the toppling of the Ba’thi regime, the Shi’ites have risen as a force to be reckoned with. The Shi’ites who constitute the majority of the population in Iraq (around 65%) are situated mainly in the southern regions of Iraq and live in poor and unsettled environments. Historically, the Shi’ites were always sidelined and oppressed due to their ideological differences with the mainstream Sunni world. As pressures loomed upon them due to economic and social constraints, the rise of political movements within the community became apparent. This was a change that would alter the socio-political geography of the Middle East, for a new political entity was being formed out of acute circumstances.

“And say: Act! Allah will behold your actions, and (so will) His messenger and the believers.” Holy Quran 9:105

The unrest over the desecration of the Muslim holy book illustrated not only the depth of religious fervor felt by many here, but also a visceral distaste for Western behavior and values among a far broader swath of Afghan society.

On the fourth anniversary of his assassination in Damascus, al-Akhbar meets Iranians who worked with the man who spent 25 years building Hizbullah into a formidable resistance force.

She said yes... for better or for worse... in sickness and in health... she was his wife.. Day and night, she was there to support him and take care of him, and he was there too... to look after her, and push her only forward to become a better woman.

Paul Auster, a prominent American Jewish writer, apparently couldn't overcome his tribal instincts recently when he sought to desperately justify his double standards of criticizing Turkey's record on human rights while keeping completely reticent about Israel's scandalous maltreatment of non-Jews, particularly its thoroughly-tormented and discriminated-against Palestinian subjects.

Awad: "We are like all people. (Everyone) should be simple and happy and smiling. And have friends."

No code of laws or creed has emphasized unity, as Islam, the religion of universal brotherhood

It seems the Jordanian-moderated talks between Zionist and Palestinian negotiators in Amman are going nowhere. Some observers argue the talks were doomed from the very beginning as the apartheid Israeli regime continued to refuse freezing settlement expansion.

More than ten months have passed and the Syrian crisis hasn't witnessed yet its track towards solution... The crisis has attracted all the key players on the regional and international political stage.

The online social network, Facebook, deleted a profile picture which includes abortion tips by taking certain pills from the account of the Dutch Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of the organization “Women on Waves (WoW)”, ....