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We are also gathered here to remember a great student from this institution of Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) and Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s): Ayatollah al-Uzma Lutfullah Safi Golpaygani, whom we are commemorating and....

Today was 11th Zil Qa’da which coincided with the birth of the 8th Imam of the Ahlul Bait (a.s), namely Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (a.s) and I extend my congratulations to our....

Despite availability of thousands of books, old and new, on the life of the Imams, still most of their life is obscure and little known to the people. Imam Rida (p.b.u.h), the captain of the ship of Islam in the Turbulent Marv (Khorasan) Note: In a message issued to the …

Imam al-Rida ('a) played an integral role in guiding the intellectual progress of the Muslim Ummah and defending the Islamic beliefs against the encroachment of...

Imam Ali ibn Musa Al-Rida was the great-grandson and direct descendant of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He lived between 765AD and 818AD....

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei says that everyone should make all-out efforts to prevent the disruption of Muslim unity, because creating discord between the...

The issue of Wilayat al-Faqih is one of the important issues in the jurisprudence of Islam; the jurisprudents have mentioned both intellectual and narrative proofs and it is over one...

Imam Khomeini is exception among Muslim scholars as he succeeded in bringing about a revolution and establishing the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thus, it is necessary to...

The teacher who had the most profound influence on Imam Khomeini’s spiritual development was, however, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Shahabadi (d. 1328 Sh. /1950); to him the....

It is related that when teaching a class on ethical advancement at Qum in the 1930's, Imam Khomeini (R.A.) would always close his lectures with the following sentence from the Munajat-i Sha'ban, a litany unique in....