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Khwaja Muhammad Sirajuddin Naqshbandi, a prominent Sufi shaikh, was born on this day in 1879. ***** Khwaja Muhammad Sirajuddin Naqshbandi  (Urdu:   خواجہ محمد سراج الدین نقشبندی ‎) (b. 15 Muharram 1297 AH (December 30, 1879), Mussa Zai Sharif, Dera Ismail Khan, India - d. 26 Rabi al-Awwal 1333 AH (February 12, 1915), Mussa Zai Sharif, Dera Ismail Khan, India) was a prominent Islamic scholar and Sufi shaikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order in South Asia (present day Pakistan), and a leader of the Mughal Empire (1897-1899). His legacy and influence are still widespread around the world in terms of his followers and his methodology.  He was a descendant of the first leader to build the Taj Mahal. ***** Khwaja Muhammad Sirajuddin Naqshbandi  ( Urdu :  خواجہ محمد سراج الدین نقشبندی ‎) (b. 15 Muharram 1297 AH (December 30, 1879), Mussa Zai Sharif, Dera Ismail Khan, India - d. 26 Rabi al-Awwal 1333 AH (February 12, 1915), Mussa Zai Sharif, Dera Ismail Khan, In...

' Alī  ibn  Mūsā ar-Riḍā  ( Arabic :  علي ابن موسى الرّضا ‎), also called  Abu al-Hasan ,  Ali al-Reza  (b.c. December 29, 765 [11 Dhu al-Qidah 148AH], Medina, Hijaz, Abbasid Empire (now Saudi Arabia) - d.  June 6, 818 [17 Safar 202 AH], Tus, Persia, Abbasid Empire (now Iran))  or also known in Iran (Persia) as  Imam Reza  ( Persian :  امام رضا ‎), was a descendant of the  Islamic prophet ,  Muhammad , and the eighth Shi'ite  Imam , after his father  Musa al-Kadhim , and before his son  Muhammad al-Jawad . He was an  Imam  of knowledge according to the  Zaydi (Fiver) Shia  school and  Sufis . He lived in a period when  Abbasid  caliphs were facing numerous difficulties, the most important of which was Shia revolts. The Caliph  Al-Ma'mun  sought out a remedy for this problem by appointing Al-Ridha as his successor, through whom he could be involved in worldly...

Music Calendar Teena Marie (b. Mary Christine Brockert, March 5, 1956, Santa Monica, California), aka "Lady T" and "Ivory Queen of Soul", died in Pasadena, California, December 26, 2010.

The Great Mosque of Mecca , Arabic  al-Masjid al-Ḥarām , also called the Grand Mosque, the  Holy  the Mosque  or  Haram Mosque , is the mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, built to enclose the Ka'bah, the holiest shrine in Islam.  As one of the destinations of the hajj and  'umrah  pilgrimages, the Great Mosque receives millions of worshippers each year.  On November 20, 1979 the Great Mosque (Grand Mosque) of Mecca was at the center of a rebellion against the Saudi royal family when it was seized by a group of several hundred Islamic militants led by Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī and Muḥammad bin 'Abd Allah  al-Qaḥṭānī. The insurgents denounced the impiety of the Saʿūd family and claimed that Qaḥṭānī was the  mahdi ,  an Islamic messianic figure. After obtaining a religious ruling sanctioning the use of force within the Great Mosque, where violence is forbidden, government troops retook the mosque in a bloody battle in December....