Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Sayyid Muhammad Ḥasan al-Shīrāzī, also known as Mīrzā al-Shīrāzī, whose piety and scholarship were revered far beyond the confines of the seminaries of...
September, 2020
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17 September
Article: Ahkam Concerning the Ahl al-Bayt
In this article Nebil Hussain examines more than a dozen laws that classical Sunni and Twelver Shi‘i jurists characterized as specific to the Prophet’s progeny and...
June, 2020
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2 June
Why Ayatollah Hakim Didn’t Agree with Imam Khomeini on “Uprising against a Despotic Ruler”
If Imam Hassan (A.S) had as much followers as you have today, he would have risen up against the caliphate of his time. At first, he staged an uprising but when he learned that his followers had been bribed, he...
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1 June
Ayatollah Sistani Stood Up as a Sign of Respect to Imam Khomeini
Did you know that Sayyid Sistani used to listen to Imam Khomeini speeches in secret during Saddam’s time...
May, 2020
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4 May
Fatwas of Shia Jurists on Fasting during Ramadan amid Coronavirus
Some Shia Jurists issued Fatwas (religious edict) in response to the Istifta (new inquiry) about questions regarding the fasting during the...
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2 May
Does Smoking Break the Fast?
Fasting in the holy Shari’ah (jurisprudence) of Islam is equal to that with the intention of obeying God; a person does not eat or...
July, 2019
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8 July
Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī
Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī is a Shiite mujtahid and scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in the Qajari period. He was a prominent scholar of fiqh in his time, and one of the first faqihs who was known with the title "Hujjat al-Islam"...
April, 2019
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14 April
Al-Shahid al-‘Awwal Faqih al-Sarbidaran +PDF
A detailed story of the life of Muhammad Shams Al-Din, known as Al-Shahid Al-Awwal Faqih Al-Sarbidaran. Al-Shahid Al-Awwal is counted among those...
March, 2019
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19 March
Video: A Shiʻa Jurist Who Got Beat by His Wife!!
When he became a Shia authority and marja’, his followers realized that his wife had a bad behavior at home. They came to investigate the issue only to find out that sometimes his wife would beat him...
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10 March
A Faqih Whom 400 Mujtahids Were His Disciples
“O Ja’far! The twelver[1] ulama[2] have put a lot of effort into collecting Imams’ statements from around cities. They have also mentioned whether they are true, reliable or weak so that people of your kind can see the documentation of the religious law without effort and pronounce a decree,” Muhaqqiq ...
