To fully comprehend the message of Karbala one has to fathom two thoughts. One is the rising of Imam Hussain (as) and the other is the rising of Zaynab (as). Hadrat Zaynab (as) was an outstanding figure in the...
Read More »Lady Zaynab (a.s): An Icon and a Role Model to the Women
Lady Zaynab (A.S) proved that the woman is not in the peripheries of history, but in the core of it. She humiliated and mortified, in his place, the enemy who had apparently gained victory on the battlefield....
Read More »The Sermon of Zaynab and Its Historical Background
The most important event in Zaynab’s life is the tragedy of Karbala, a movement whose first stage was led by Imam Husayn and Zaynab led its second stage. In the post-Karbala events, the sermons of Zaynab are very...
Read More »The Victory of Truth: the Life of Zaynab bint Ali
This is the story of the victory of truth. It is the story of a unique woman whose own fate was inextricably bound with the historical events of Karbala that have impressed upon mankind the true reality of...
Read More »Shi’ism and Khilafah by Ayatollah Milani
According to my understanding, Shīʻah is an Arabic word for group. No such group apparently existed prior to the institution of the caliphate – khalafah – and it was only instituted to oppose Abu Bakr Siddique the...
Read More »Call for Papers: What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage
The Manchester Metropolitan University will host a conference next year entitled "What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c.300-1600”....
Read More »Book: The Shīʻā and Islamic Disciplines
Praise be to Allah for opening the gates of knowledge for us to establish the Islamic sciences and single us out as the Imamiyyah Shīʻā, a praise by which we precede those who take precedence in attaining His pleasure. Blessings and peace be on the most excellent and outstanding of …
Read More »The Holy Qur’an and Modern Scientific Discoveries
But sometimes in order to reach this goal, the Holy Qur’an indicates some of the natural sciences and the secrets of creation, in particular, in its lessons on unity; it removes the veil over the secrets of the world of creation and it...
Read More »The Islamic System of Judiciary in the Qur’an
There are a number of noble Qur'anic verses which deal com¬prehensively with the `system of the judiciary', and which we must examine closely...
Read More »Why Do the Shīʻahs Combine Prayers?
The Shīʻahs acknowledge the five obligatory daily prayers. However, they frequently combine the Zuhr and ‘Asr prayers by offering them consecutively during the time period defined by the start of Zuhr and the end of....
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