In this book, Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of what came to be known as the Greater Occultation, Shīʿī authorities maintained that all contact with the Imam had been sundered, forcing him to...

For Muslims, the institution of marriage based on mutuality of natural interest and cordiality between spouses represents a sublime manifestation of the...

Faithful teachers who enjoy good traits occupy a high position in society because of the appreciative efforts they exert for educating and supplying individuals with knowledge and...

In fact, no divine law has been enacted or legislated without a rationale or reason but it remains concealed to us....

The Ahl al-Sunnah generally consider it a sunnah to offer specific evening prayers – the Tarawih – in congregation during the holy month of Ramadan. The Shi’ah, while being commended to offer similar nawafil (recommended prayers), are not allowed to offer them in...

Fasting or Ṣawm, is one of the most important obligatory rituals in Islam. Muslims must abstain from a number of activities including eating and drinking from dawn to dusk to...

Johan Giske, a professor of infectious diseases at Sweden’s Karolinska Medical Institute, said that fasting through drying the throat reduces the risk of contracting the...

Leader of Iran Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message expressing his condolences on the demise of the...

Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini, a member of the Iran Expediency Discernment Council, an eminent scholar of jurisprudent and a professor at the Religious Learning Center at Qom passed away at age 94, on April 24 in holy city of Qom, Iran. Ayatollah Amini was born in 1925 in the City of …

The Shia  Prominent Cleric, Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani answered a question about fasting during Coronavirus outbreak..