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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...
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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 …
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According to astronomical data, the predominant possibility for the first day of the blessed month of Ramadan this year will be on Saturday, April 25, 2020 for all regions of North America.
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This book recounts the lives of some of the Ulama of Iran committed to the inspired and noble cause of Islam.
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This book concludes Laws on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, hajj, transactions, marriage, and other topics according to the Islamic law of Ayatollah Abul Qasim al-Khu'i.
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