Health & Nutrition

Eating and drinking are two basic and essential human needs. Just as nutritionists advise others on matters about foods, nutrition, and their impacts on health, so does divine law....

Today on June 25, 2021, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei received the first dose of the Iranian Covid vaccine. Previously, Ayatollah Khamenei had set 2 conditions for him being...

One of members of Imam Khomeini’s medical team has recalled through a series of memoirs that he was extraordinary kind and showed affection towards doctors and nurses....

Fasting means that a person must, in order to do homage to Allah, from the time of Adan for Fajr prayer up to Maghrib, avoid nine things which will be mentioned later. In some situations Qada or Kaffara or Both of them become...

Zakat al-Fitrah is a special form of obligatory zakat given at the end of the month of Ramadan, during the day of Eid...

Every year, many questions about numerous topics arise with the start of the blessed month of Ramadan. The most important of these questions are related to the crescent moon and the time of...

I usually belch out what I've eaten during fasting after the call of salat, though I try to swallow back my spit so that the food will not pass through my throat and I do not really take much food, I will like to...

What is the timing of fast, when does it start and when does it end? What time should one stop eating, at imsak timing or at the start of...

There are numerous prohibitions [muffatirat] while fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, including, of course, the prohibition of eating and drinking. Consuming food and drink purposely while fasting is a...

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the `pillars' of the Islamic faith. No proof is required to establish its being obligatory (wajib) and one denying it goes out of the fold of Islam, because it is obvious like salat, and in...