“They Will Ask You” by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi

This 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. War in the holy months. Alcohol and gambling. Orphans.

This book is a collection of speeches that Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi delivered in the month of Ramadan. There are five main chapters in this book. The first chapter is about the birth of the new moon. Ayatollah Makarem delves into the necessity of being organized in this chapter. The second chapter is about spending in the way of Allah; charity. The necessity of charity and the social and individual beneifits of charity are discussed therein. The third chapter is about war in the holy months. The Ayatollah discusses the concept of war in Islam and how Islam is actually a peaceful religion – not a religion which was spread by the sword. The fourth chapter is about alcohol and gambling. The method of prohibiting alcohol and the social problems that alcohol and gambling present to the society are discussed in this chapter. The last chapter is about orphans. Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi discusses how we should treat orphans and how important this issue is in Islam.

Bibliographic Information

Title: They Will Ask You

Author:  Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi

Translator: Hamid Waqar

Publisher: Muntazar Publications

 Language: English

Length:61

Pub. Date: 2011/12/11