The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about fasting during holy month of Ramadan amid coronavirus outbreak....
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani’s Fatwa on Fasting during Ramadan in the Shadow of Coronavirus
In reply to a question about fasting in the Month of Ramadan in the shadow of the Coronavirus outbreak, the Grand Ayatollah Sistani emphasized that fasting as an individual duty is Wajib, and whoever has the...
Read More »“They Will Ask You” by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
his book is a collection of speeches that Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi delivered in the month of Ramadan. There are five main chapters in this book: Birth of the new moon. The charity...
Read More »Video: Fasting in a Land Where the Sun Never Sets
Muslims around the world are fasting from dawn to maqrib this Ramadan. But what happens if the sun never sets...
Read More »The Value of Zakat al-Fitrah in the US
With the excitement of the joyous completion of the holy month of Ramadan, it is easy to forget about the needs of those in poverty and our obligation to provide charity to...
Read More »Predicting the Eid al-Fitr according to Shia Maraji’
Certain factors are at play for sighting the crescent on the first night of the month. These factors include “the time when the sun and the moon sets”, “the interval between the setting of the two”, “the coordinates of the sun and the moon and also the difference between the angles of them which is down to the latitudinal as well as the directional difference of the moon and the sun”, “the percentage of...
Read More »Fasting Muslims Save People from UK Tower Fire
A group of Muslims from a mosque in the British capital London have committed a heroic act by rushing into a burning block tower to save people sleeping inside...
Read More »Dar al-Ifta’s Fatwa on Breaking Fast during Extreme Heat
Some people questioned the possibility of breaking Sawm (fasting) in the month of Ramadan because of high temperature and is it permissible, which prompted the Egyptian media to resort to the...
Read More »Nearest Likelihood of Laylat al-Qadr according to Ayatollah Sistani’s View
The office of His Eminence Ayatollah Sistani announced a statement in order to answer a question about the determination or the closest likelihood of the Night of Qadr...
Read More »Why Do some Shia Hadith Permit Sexual Contact during Fasting?
What is the opinion of maraja' related to several traditions in Shia literature mentioning the permissibility of anal intercourse during fasting, and that the action will not affect the...
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