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IslamIn Friday's sermon at Masjid al-Haram, imam and khatib Sheikh Dr Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid said true peace comes not from material plenty but from the sweetness of faith, trust in Allah and contentment with His decree.
In Islamic law a person becomes accountable on reaching bulugh, or maturity; physical signs settle it at any age, and without them the well-known Hanafi view is that boys and girls are mature at 15 lunar years.
IslamThe Saudi Press Agency says the meetings reviewed packages, service-provider contracts, housing, transport, catering and crowd management; preparations began in May, with set duties and deadlines for each stage.
IslamEach umbrella spans about 25.5 m square, weighs about 40 tonnes and shades over 900 people when open; 436 misting fans, rain drainage and more than 1,000 lights are built in.
Organised by Qatar's Awqaf ministry and Qatar University, the two-day meeting examines Qur'anic perspectives on philosophy, linguistics, law and politics; about 2,000 abstracts were submitted.
IslamHafiz Maulana Masudul Kadir, principal of Iqra Bangladesh School Habiganj, said Quran study is changing how children think, and urged families to make homes faith-friendly.
IslamThe Jeddah Astronomical Society says the moon reached about 89.87 degrees above Makkah at 7:50:31am local time on 5 October; it is the second such alignment this year after 28 February.
OpinionWriting in Our Islam, senior scholar and author Maulana Muhammad Hemayet Uddin says uploading books without the publisher's permission breaks copyright law and is impermissible in Islamic jurisprudence, and calls for legal action.
IslamThe committee of North Haripur Qutub Ullah Bhuiyan Jame Mosque in Chhagalnaiya set the challenge to bring children to the mosque; the bicycles were handed over on Saturday night.
IslamArchitect Dr Muhammad Kamal Ismail, who designed the great expansions of the two holy mosques, went to Greece looking for heat-reflecting Thassos marble for Medina; he found it in a warehouse in Saudi Arabia, whose owner refused payment.
IslamVerse 23 of Surah Al-Isra forbids saying even 'uff' to parents in old age; Our Islam calls checking on the elderly, sitting with them and seeking their advice a duty of faith.
The bus fare from Madinah airport to the city has been cut to 3.45 Saudi riyals, and new routes and stops have opened.
HealthHealth minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain says every upazila health complex is to be expanded from 50 to 151 beds, with 10 dialysis machines in each district hospital and 50 in each medical college hospital.
