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The secrets, however, will ultimately not stay hidden as they should. In our (Shi‘ah) view, the secrets of this story are up to a large extent very clear. In our reports and narrations, that is the historical quotes that have reached us through Shi‘ah scholars and not the narration that have been narrated by the Imams, like what Shaykh Mufid has quoted in...

After the martyrdom of al-'Imam al-Husayn (A) the objective of the Ahl al-Bayt (A), as we see it, was two-fold. Firstly, their goal was to protect Islam against corruption, forgery and mis-interpretation. This was done in several ways. The foremost of them was to establish the authentic Sunnah in the face of other claims...

The word 'ismah literally means “protection”. In Islamic terminology, it means “infallibility”. Infallibility is defined as “a spiritual grace (lutf) of Allah to a person which enables him to abstain from sins by his own free...

The issue of the peace treaty of Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba (as) with Mu‘awiyah ibn Abu Sufiyan is one of the subjects about which there is controversy and differing opinions among historians....

Indeed, there are so many lessons and values to be learnt from Arbaeen Walk in which people from all over the world participate irrespective of their sect, profession, social status, and...

In accordance with strict Islamic law and guidelines, a slaughtered animal is considered halal when its feed is also considered halal.

The typical image of women at home is the image of a creature of secondary importance which rejected by Islam.

Jurisprudence has a history of eleven hundred years, meaning that for eleven centuries, without a break

Concerning the Mahdi, the Qur’an does not mention him explicitly, either by name or by description. The time of his reappearance is also not mentioned.

Some schools of fiqh which supported qiyas, especially the Hanafi school, believed in the role of reason in ijtihad....