Vaccines against Coronavirus have already been manufactured by Pfizer, AstraZeneca & Moderna, and others are expected, or already on the market. The medical authorities of several countries have approved these vaccines and....
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According to Islam, the man and woman have to be in pursuit of a common objective, which is to reach the pinnacle of humanity, and both must bear the means of accomplishing such an...
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When I was roughly 19 years old, I was assigned with a duty to deliver a letter written by my father (Ayatollah Sadr, the then grand Ayatollah) to the incumbent Iranian Prime Minister. I, therefore, travelled from Qom to...
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Sunnis wash their feet when performing wudhu and they describe this practice as fardh (mandatory). It is certainly mandatory and I am wondering why Shiites are refraining from performing a fardh by...
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Ayatollah Khamenei has introduced a model of an ideal Islamic family, which will aid in building an Islamic civilisation
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Statistics have shown that the rate of marriage, particularly in recent years, has decreased considerably....
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It is quoted in the book al-Ihtijaj of Shaykh al-Tabarsi from ʿAbdullah b. Hasan who relates from his fore-fathers that when Sayyidah Zahra was informed that...
Read More »Fundamental Difference in the Approach to Law between Islam and the West
Law is not supposed to endanger the interests of society—material or spiritual, worldly or otherworldly. Once a law is detrimental to any of these interests, it is not ideal and cannot meet the needs of...
Read More »The Life of Fatima Az-Zahra by Ayatollah Baqir Sharif Al-Qarashi
The book is a study on the life of Infallible "Fatima" the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.). It offers and inclusive review on the high qualities of her great personality such as...
Read More »Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad by South African Catholic Priest
The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fatima was from early times taken up by Shi’a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with...
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