The brutal inhuman acts of ISIS and Takfiris in coldblooded murder of civilians (including children, women, elderly, etc.) is totally incompatible with recommendations of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh & hp) and by no means a...
Read More »Islamic Unity Is a Sacred Slogan: Ayatollah Khamenei
Islamic unity is a sacred slogan. If the Holy Prophet (s.w.a.) were among us today, he would invite us to promote unity as this holy ayah says, "It grieves him that you should perish: ardently anxious is he over you: to the believers is he most kind and merciful"...
Read More »School of Ahl al-Bayt the Best Way for Muslim Unity
If it is permissible for Muslims to follow the four schools, the school of Imam Ja'far Al-Sadiq would have more right to be followed. Both Abu Hanifah and Malik were students of Imam Ja'far. Al-Shafi'i was a student of Muhammad Ibn Al-Hassan Shalbani who was a student of...
Read More »Helping Our Children Handle Big Feelings
Sometimes it is hard to see that our children are indeed little human beings, essentially miniature versions of us. So it happens that when they exhibit “adult” feelings and thoughts, we don’t know how to react and...
Read More »The Muslim Transformation Movement in the West
An active minority of Muslims in the West are consciously creating and driving an ideological and moral revolution. Their goal is to generate an ethical transformation movement that leads the West back to the innate nature or fitra of mankind and its ideas are already...
Read More »Abduction – Jurisprudential Investigation
According to the position of Imam Musa al-Sadr, this issue is subjected in jurisprudence of esteem and status; the legal aspect of this case lies in the jurisprudence of time and responsibility; and, finally, it also have a place in the field of...
Read More »Imam Mahdi’s (AS) Youthful Appearance despite Lengthy Life
According to the authentic narrations, Imam Mahdi (AS) will reappear as a young man, despite having lived for over a thousand years. So how can this be? How is it possible to live for such a long period? And how can he live long yet not age physically?...
Read More »Inheritor of Yazid Intents on Repeating the Story of Karbala
The current inheritor of Caliph Yazid bin Mu’āwīyya’s political mantle is Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the impetuous crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is also thirty-three years old. He seems intent on repeating the story of Karbala and promoting a fight to finish the Shia in the Middle East just as...
Read More »A Report on the Annual Meeting of UK Shi‘a Scholars +Pics
The 25th annual meeting of UK Ulema (clergymen), community leaders and teachers, was held on 16 September, prior to the commencement of the month of Muharram and commemorations of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn(a). The title of the discussion was ‘the effective strategic approach in promoting Islam in the West‘...
Read More »A Brief Biography of Imam Hassan Ibn Ali Al-Askari (as)
Imam Hasan ibn Ali al-Askari, the son of the Tenth Imam, was born in 232/845 and according to some Shiite sources was poisoned and killed in 260/872 through the instigation of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tamid...
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