The only religion that has strongly banned alcoholism in the world is Islam, and it is thanks to this principle that the toxic effects of this poisonous drink are not manifest among the followers of Islam, said Allama Tabatabaei in his note to the congress on fighting alcoholic beverages at the request of the...
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The daughter of Lebanon’s prominent Shia leader Imam Musa al-Sadr, who went missing with two companions nearly 40 years ago in Libya, says she strongly believes that her father alive and being kept in prison...
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Using rich material drawn mainly from medieval Islamic biographical dictionaries, Nurit Tsafrir offers a thorough examination of the first century and a half of the school’s existence, the period during which it took shape...
Read More »Fiqh According to the Quran and Sunnah
This book is nicely divided into many sections starting with the Book of Purification and ending with the Book of Zakah. Each book is further subdivided into chapters which explain a specific topic in...
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Al-hikmah institute of Al-Mustafa International University organizes a summer program which provide a format for introducing and discussing Shi‘a history, thoughts, beliefs, demography, Shi‘a governments, education system, branches and denominations, as well as ideological roots of Islamic revolution in...
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For 25 years, millions of Iranians were held hostage by the United States. That’s right: from August 19, 1953 to February 1, 1979—9,037 days in all—over 17 million Iranians were essentially hostages of the ṭaghut (evil, corrupt and deviant) government of the United States. That these hostages managed to free themselves from U.S. oppression due to the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran is indeed a miracle...
Read More »The Biggest Halal Center in the World Establishes in Holy Mecca
Halal Commission at Muslim World League (MWL) has established the biggest Halal Center in the World (with its headquarters in Holy Makkah). The Center will be an international reference to whatever concerns Halal, whether meat, food, medicines or other thing...
Read More »Ayatollah Khamenei’s Message to University Students in Europe
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message to participants attending the 52nd conference of the Islamic Union Association for Iranian Students in Europe. ..
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The characters and thinkers on the African continent are working on this continent to spread the religion of the Ahlul-Bayt (P.B.U.T) and seek to spread Shiite denomination through the setting up of institutions and associations...
Read More »Pakistan’s Muslim Clerics Issue Fatwa against Suicide Bombings
More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic verdict, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled by the government on Tuesday says....
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