PUTRAJAYA, April 21 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Mohd Na’im Mokhtar has urged politicians not to use verses from the Quran and hadiths as a tool to achieve political goals, especially during election campaigns.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today extended Nuzul Quran greetings to all Malaysians.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 1 — The Selangor government will start incorporating a Quran-based science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum in religious schools managed by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) this year.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 1 — Malaysia has been recognised as one of the top five countries actively involved in the global Wakaf Quran programme, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.

By Sheeda Fathil SHAH ALAM, April 6 — The Selangor Women's Welfare and Charity Organisation (Pekawanis) has allocated RM185,000 for Hari Raya Aidilfitri contributions to 1,000 single mothers and asnaf (tithe recipients) in the state.  Its president Datin Seri Masdiana Muhamad said the amount...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The Muslim community nationwide today participated in the World #QuranHour 2024 programme as part of their ‘final sprint’ before Ramadan ends.

By Danial Dzulkifly PETALING JAYA, April 4 — Business premises in Selangor face licence revocation if they are found to inappropriately display Quranic verses on their products or premises, said state executive councillor for Islam Dr Fahmi Ngah. He said this is part of the state's proactive...

JEMPOL, Jan 21 — Police arrested a 37-year-old man, believed to be throwing away torn pages of the Quran along Jalan Besar Palong, yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said constructive discourse should be promoted rather than criticised excessively, especially those involving discussions about the Quran.

By Siti Rohaizah Zainal KLANG, Dec 11 — Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to safeguarding the special rights of the Malays and the sanctity of Islam while simultaneously ensuring the welfare of its diverse, multi-religious populace. In the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 25 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today congratulated Malaysian qari (male Quran reciter) Muhammad Qayyim Nizar Sarimi for winning the men’s recitation category at the Malaysian International al-Quran Recitation and Memorisation Assembly (MTHQA) last night.

PUTRAJAYA, July 25 — The Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned Swedish Ambassador to Malaysia Dr Joachim Bergstrom to express strong condemnation over the recent desecration of the Holy Quran in Stockholm, Sweden on, July 20.

TAIPEI, June 7 — The restoration of a 500-year-old handwritten Holy Quran was completed on Sunday, according to the Taiwan-based Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Other than Arabic, the government will not allow the Quran to be published in Roman script or other languages.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 — Police have recorded statements from 14 individuals, including three publishers and three printers, to assist in the investigation regarding the discovery of 13 copies of the Qu'ran believed to have been deliberately dumped in a drain at Tasik Sri Murni, Jinjang, last month.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — The police have recorded statements from two more individuals to assist in the investigation into the dumping of 13 copies of the Qu'ran in a drain at Tasik Sri Murni, Jinjang here, on February 18.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — The police have recorded statements from eight individuals to assist in the investigation regarding the discovery of 13 copies of the Qu'ran, believed to have been deliberately dumped, in a drain at Tasik Sri Murni in Jinjang, on Saturday (February 18).

AMMAN, Jan 23 — The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Isesco) on Sunday strongly condemned as "barbaric behaviour" the act burning of a copy of the Holy Quran by an extremist in Sweden's Stockholm reported Petra.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA, Jan 23 — Condemnations continued to pour in from across the Arab and Islamic worlds over the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.