DUBLIN, Ireland – Ireland bid goodbye to singer Sinead O’Connor, who was also known as Shuhada Sadaqat after her conversion to Islam. Her funeral took place in her hometown of Bray, Ireland. The private funeral procession was led by the country’s leading imam, Shaykh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri, and accompanied by dignitaries including...
LONDON (AA): An Islamic funeral was conducted Tuesday in Ireland for Sinead O’Connor who died last month in London. Umar Al-Qadri, chief imam at the Islamic Center of Ireland, led the service. “Gifted with a voice that moved a generation of young people, she could reduce listeners to tears by her otherworldly resonance,” he s...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, who founded the first hospital in Bangladesh in 1971, died on Tuesday. He was 81. He was admitted to Gonoshasthaya Kendra, the hospital he founded, several days ago in Dhaka and had been on life support since Monday, Monjur Kader Ahmed, a senior hospital official, told reporters. The [&he...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): The lead Palestinian negotiator of the Oslo accords with Israel, Ahmed Qorei, who went on to serve as prime minister in the self-rule authority it created, has died aged 85. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas paid tribute to Qorei as an indefatigable “fighter” for the Palestinian cause after...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Renowned Pakistani religious scholar Mufti Rafi Usmani died on Friday in the southern port city of Karachi, local media reported. He was 86. Born in July 1936, Usmani, an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband, a prominent seminary in India, had been suffering from multiple diseases for quite some time, according to [&he...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An eminent Islamic economist and Indian scholar, Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi has passed away at the age of 91 in the US, Muslim organizations have confirmed. Siddiqi, an alumnus of India’s renowned Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and widely recognized for his work in Islamic economics, was the recipient of the prestigiou...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Sheikh Muhammad Swalihu, an eminent Islamic scholar and prayer leader (imam) of Kenya’s largest mosque, has passed away. He served as imam of the Jamia Mosque for 27 years. In a statement, the Jamia Mosque Committee of Nairobi announced that Swalihu, who was born in 1949, passed away in Nairobi after […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, died on Tuesday. He was 92. “This evening, after a serious and prolonged illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away,” the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital, where he was being treated, said in a statement. Gorbachev was born in 1931 in a p...
Muhammad Afzaal Hussain came to Albuquerque in 2017 to study in the University of New Mexico. He made a mark early on and was elected President of the Graduate Professional Students Association. He had a deep interest in politics and joined the campaign of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury to get recognition in the political circles. As [&hell...
Known for her compassion and selfless work, Bilquis Bano Edhi died Friday evening at Karachi, Pakistan’s Aga Khan Hospital. The 74-year-old was a mother to thousands of orphans across Pakistan, and a recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice. She was also awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s recognition for the highest...
