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I am Shah Husayn Wali! God says [to you] “in these 18 years when have I ever let you go hungry that you have now abandoned your studies and fallen into the thought that until when will the relations between Iraq and Iran remained strained and when will they send …
Read More »Is Sahih al-Bukhari Considered to Be an Authentic Source? Why Can’t the Hadith al-Thaqalayn Be Found in it?
I have searched Sahih al-Bukhari trying to find the Hadith al-Thaqalayn but unfortunately wasn’t able to. I wanted to know whether Sahih al-Bukhari is considered to be an authentic and reliable...
Read More »Call for Papers: Leadership through Service, Development through Learning, Cooperation through Dialogue
The British Board of Scholars and Imams is an apolitical national assembly of imams, traditional scholars and religiously learned academics formed to facilitate scholarly intra-Muslim research and dialogue and...
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