Some reports of the authorities suggest about 32% of people in south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan of Iran are completely illiterate. If we count the number of literate who got only primary or middle classes; the rate of illiteracy goes up more.

A prominent Islamic scholar, Shaikh Mohammad Ali Amini, visited Darululoom Zahedan on Saturday, Jan. 5 where he presented discourses for students and teachers separately inside the seminary.

Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, urged on the legal rights of the Iranian Sunni community reminding the authorities to respect Sunnis’ sanctities and religious freedom. He was talking to hundreds of citizens in Khash city of the Baluchistan region in Iran.

The longest-serving chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) of  Pakistan and former lawmaker Qazi Hussain Ahmed died of cardiac arrest late Saturday night in the federal capital. He was 74.

Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have continued to protest in Fallujah and other in Iraqi cities against the Shia-led government in Baghdad.

Note: The outstanding religious Sunni leader, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, made a trip in the early days of December 2012 to the southern regions of the Iranian Baluchistan. Two parts of the report of Shaikh’s journey have been published in his website lately. The following is the last part of the itinerary:

The outstanding Islamic scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, along with his comrades left “Kahir” to “Souru” on Sunday, 2nd December, where they took part in graduation ceremony of the memorizers (Hoffadh) and graduate students of Zarrabad.

Nearly 400 people were reported dead in Syria Saturday, including some 150 charred corpses that were found in Deir Baalba in Homs, according to activist media.

Question: Scholars of Islam, as-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatu Allah. During the Christmas season, Christians all over the country illuminate their houses with lights, put up Christmas trees, and exchange gifts. TV is full of jingle bells and all the stores are decorated for Christmas. All this is very tempting to small children; children love putting […]

More than 300 people were reportedly killed in airstrike near a bakery in the town of Halfaya in the central Syrian province of Hama.