Islam in Russia

Source : The Jakarta Post | Jakarta | 28 Nov 2011

The Russia Muftis Council has awarded Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Hamid Awaluddin with an “Al-Fahr” honorary medal for his role in initiating partnership between Indonesian and Russian Muslims.

The medal was handed over by council chairman Ravil Gaynutdin, who along with other prominent Russian muftis escorted it to Hamid’s official residence in Moscow on Saturday evening.

Source : ABNA / Ufa / 23 Nov 2011

Russia will continue preparing experts on history and culture of Islam, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

"We have allotted money for it in the budget this year, in 2012 and in 2013. We have envisaged a significant sum - almost a billion rubles (more than $32 million - IF)," Medvedev said at his meeting with Muslim clerics in Ufa, Bashkortostan.

Islam Has Only One God

By Ali Vyacheslav Polosin | Moscow | 15 Oct 2011

Today there is much debate about the ideology of the future Russia. In addition to the traditional opponents – the Westerners and the Slavophiles, the Russian political stage has been joined by Islam, rising throughout the world. Kremlin officials and oligarchs, dubbed ‘democracy representatives’ by Russians, found no model idol on the presidential order and engaged in the creation of an enemy.

Sermon by Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi on the ziyarat to Shaykh Shu`ayb Afandi | Bagini | 2005

Dear brothers in faith, we should all give thanks to Allah. It is amazing how many people are here today! Dagestan has been really blessed with Barakah! Never since our ancestors’ times Daghestan has been so religious and advanced in spiritual knowledge and Tariqa.

Polosin Ali Vyacheslav is an eminent representative of the Muslim community in Russia.

By Ibrahim Abdulaev : IslamDag.info | Makhachkala / 07 Oct 2011

Institute of Theology and International Relations (ITIR) organized a nation-wide event dedicated to the memory of late Maksud Sadikov, former Rector of the Institute, assassinated by gunmen in June this year in Makhachkala. Government officials, Dagestani clergy, Institute staff and students, Sadikov's friends and colleagues from other Universities, some 500 participants gathered in multi-purpose convention hall in Southern building of the Institute.

Sermon by Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi in the village of Lower Kazanische, Dagestan

Some people think we do not recognize Abdurahman Sughuri. But who really wants to know the truth, he knows; and who does not, will never do. How can we reject him? Take for example a tree trunk. The trunk has branches. All branches grow on the same tree, and there is no difference between them. Some people collect the fruit on this branch, and the others collect on the different branch. They keep to their branches and do not swap them.

By Ibrahim Abdulaev : islamdag.info / Grozny / 22 Sept 2011

(IslamDag) - Thousands of believers gathered today since early morning near the Ahmad Haji Kadirov central mosque awaiting the arrival of a sacred relic - bowl of Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]. Live corridor of Grozny residents was formed from the airport till the "Heart of Chechnya" Islamic Complex.

By Muhammadrasul Saaduev : Imam of Central Jum`ah Mosque | Makhachkala / 04 Aug 2011

Love for the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

When spring comes, we all smell flowers blooming. Nature wakes up, and every one of us has the feelings that are impossible to describe.

By Natalya Krainova : Moscow Times | Moscow / 13 Sept 2011

A century-old mosque that survived the Soviet crackdown on religion was demolished in downtown Moscow on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The destruction was carried out on the instructions of Russia's top muftis, who said the wooden building had begun to collapse after heavy rainfall over the weekend. But architectural preservationists denounced the decision as an "act of unbelievable barbarity."