Health & Nutrition

This article presents views of Imam Khomeini (R.A.) on various aspects of medical ethics. Imam (R.A.) with his divine insight and taqwa, opens new ways for the doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in caring for the...

At the resumption of the Sheikh Zakzaky case in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, the state High Court has ordered officials of the Kaduna Correctional Center to...

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....

Why is it permissible to eat shrimps and forbidden to eat crabs and lobsters? Please explain the difference between them, their genus, category and other distinguishing features?...

The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered a question Ayatullah al-Sistani Regarding the Mourning Ceremonies of Imam al-Hussain (p) for the Month of Muharram, 1442 A.H. during the...

The Shia prominent jurist, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei offers some advice for Imam Hussain (as) mourning on this Muharram during Coronavirus outbreak....

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called on his people to follow Iran’s model for Muharram mourning ceremonies....

Since the followers of the past revealed religions (that is, the Jews, the Christians and the Zoroastrians) are ritually pure, many of the problems concerning the status and permissibility of the food are resolved when we...

According to the recommendations of the great leaders of Islam, the best food for a baby is the mother’s milk. For a suckling child, nothing can be substituted for the mother’s milk. Therefore, one of the...

The opinion of the Shia' jurists and the School of Thought of the Ahl al-Bayt (the family of the Noble Prophet of Islam (s)) is that meat that has not been slaughtered according to Islamic laws, the ruling is that it is...