The concept of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is a fundamental aspect of Islam, and yet it is a controversial topic, particularly for Muslims living in the West...
Read More »New Media, an Opportunity to Propagate Islamic Teaching
This article will argue that new media creates more of an opportunity for Islamic communities to carry out propagation through more than what is known as...
Read More »Syrian Grand Mufti Argues Ulama to Don’t Preach Hate and Bigotry
Our Ulama of different schools of thought during their Friday Khutbah differentiate people on the basis of sects and this confuses and disturbs the common people. I urge these Ulama don’t preach hate and bigotry...
Read More »Imam Hussain, The Man Who Opposed the Founding Fathers of ISIS
The event of Karbala has both influenced and inspired our planet’s most prominent leaders and thinkers, resulting in figures such as Mahatma Ghandi saying “If India wants to be a successful country, it must follow in the footsteps of Imam Hussain” and it is with regard to Imam Hussain that …
Read More »Ashura Rituals Trapped in Cultural Baggage
For centuries religions have tried to make sense of the sufferings humans endure during the course of this worldly life. Illnesses, accidents, corporal pain and mental anguish are but a few of these conditions...
Read More »The Role of the Women of Ashura
In all the events that occurred before, during, and after the Day of Ashura, the role of the women was especially remarkable as they were exemplars in demonstrating how to resist against oppression. There were wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters in the camp of Imam Husayn who displayed love and...
Read More »Karbala Tragedy in the View of Christian Scholar
In a TV speech, Irish Christian scholar Chris Hewer talks about the lessons all human beings can get from the events of Karbala and Imam Hussein (AS) uprising against the tyranny of Yazid...
Read More »Istanbul Conference Discusses Dangerous of Salafism
A three-day conference on Salafism began in Istanbul Friday, where leading academics and experts debated the merits and demerits of the conservative movement in the...
Read More »What do Non-Muslims say about Imam Hussain (as)?
Imam Hussain (as) was the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon them both, who was martyred by the evil forces of despotism. This is a collection of short quotations about him from a wide variety of...
Read More »Karbala, the Manifistation of Fiqh in Imam’s Behavior
Hajj and jihad are Jurisprudential (Fiqhi) issues such as fasting and praying. When in the words of infallible imams (A.S) these four issues of Fiqh and worship are connected to the central axis of Welaya, that axis will also be based on the rule of...
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