Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi, ISNAThe Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Qur’an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham and his son Ishmael, after Ishmael had settled in Arabia.
Category: Sufi news
Photos: 5000-years-old Jiroft artifacts – Part II
Photos by Hamid Sadeghi, Mehr News AgencyJiroft Culture – “Jiroft culture” has been postulated as an early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC) archaeological culture, located in what is now Iran’s Sistan and Kerman Provinces.
Women urged to put their stamp on Arab Spring
Reuters – Women should voice demands about their rights during the popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world to avoid being short-changed by post-revolutionary governments, Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said.
Transfer of lawyers and Majzooban Noor Website’s managers to the communal blocks of Evin prison
Imprisoned Majzooban Noor website’s managers and Gonabadi Dervishes’ lawyers in the security section of Evin prison, after two months solitary confinement, were transferred to the communal blocks.
British firm with links to William Hague sells ‘protester-tracking’ product to Iran
The Daily TelegraphA British technology firm with links to William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has sold a product to Iran which could be used to track down protesters.
IAEA Accuses Iran Of Secret Work ‘Specific To Nuclear Weapons’
The UN atomic agency charges in a new report on Iran’s nuclear program that Tehran has worked on developing a nuclear weapon design and other research and testing relevant for such arms.
Singer Arya Aramnejad Arrested
Arya Aramnejad, young songwriter and singer, was arrested a few hours ago when five intelligence agents in Mazandaran Province raided his house.
The security forces put pressure on Dr. Pazooki’s family
Saleh Pazooki, the son of Dr. Pazooki one of Gonabadi Dervishes and the professor of philosophy and theosophy, was arrested by the security and plain-clothes forces 3 weeks ago.
Gonabadi Dervishes commemorated Sacrifice Feast (Eid al-Adha)
On Aban 16, 1390 (November 07, 2011), Sacrifice Feast was commemorated in presence of His Holiness Mr. Hajj Doctor Noor Ali Tabandeh, Majzoob Ali Shah, the Honorable Qutb of Shah Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Order and with attendance of respectable Nematollahi Gonabadi Order’s sheikhs and authorized liturgists and myriads of Gonabadi Dervishes in Amir […]
Head of state newspaper found guilty
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, the head of the state newspaper Iran, has been found “guilty” by the Press Jury.