In Islam, the wishes of the deceased regarding burial are highly respected, and if a person has expressed a desire to be buried according to Islamic traditions, it is considered a duty for their ...

In Islam, the purpose of the family can include: To procreate – “For every tree there is a fruit, and the fruit of the heart is the child,” (Hadith of Prophet Muhammad).

A family is established by the coming together of a man and a woman, and thei... The foremost and fundamental institution of human society is the family unit. SEARCH ...

Under the tutelage of a friend known to the Tsarnaev family only as Misha, Tamerlan gave up boxing and stopped studying music, his family said. He began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But they could not shield the family from Islamic State’s brutality. Children as young as their 12-year-old, Ahmed, were rounded up and forced to watch beheadings in Paradise Square, ...

The family returned to Kyrgyzstan in the late 2000s, but something had radically changed. “They lived according to new strict Islamic rules, so they wouldn’t watch TV or celebrate the kids ...

In a corner of Syria crammed with people uprooted by 11 years of civil war, the leader of Islamic State and his family hid in plain sight: they kept to themselves, neighbours did not pry into each ...