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Read More »Why Do the Shi’a Avoid Tarawih Congregations
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...
Read More »Can a Woman Fast during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding?
Fasting or Ṣawm, is one of the most important obligatory rituals in Islam. Muslims must abstain from a number of activities including eating and drinking from dawn to dusk to...
Read More »Fasting Reduces the Risk of Coronavirs: Sweden Professor of Infectious Disease
Johan Giske, a professor of infectious diseases at Sweden’s Karolinska Medical Institute, said that fasting through drying the throat reduces the risk of contracting the...
Read More »Ayatollah Khamenei Issues Message of Condolence on Ayatollah Amini Passing
Leader of Iran Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message expressing his condolences on the demise of the...
Read More »Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini Passes Away at 94
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 …
Read More »Ayatollah Golpayegani’s Fatwa on Fasting during Ramadan in the Time of Coronavirus
The Shia Prominent Cleric, Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani answered a question about fasting during Coronavirus outbreak..
Read More »Al-Azhar’s Imam Calls on People not to Pay Attention to Baseless, Fast as Normal
The grand imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, has urged Muslims to perform the daily prayers and the seasonal Taraweeh prayers at home with family during...
Read More »Predicting the Crescent Moon of the Month of Ramadan in North America
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.
Read More »Ten Decades of Ulamaʹs Struggle+PDF
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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