Engineer Madani: Could you give some indications about the conditions that would prevail under the rule of the Mahdi? Mr. Hoshyar: It is possible to reconstruct the following picture of the future from the traditions related by the ahl al-bayt: When the promised Mahdi, the twelfth Imam (peace be upon him), appears, following his victory over the evil forces of the world, he will administer the entire world under one Islamic government. He will ...
Peace be on you, O trusted guardian, appointed by Allah, to administer His earth, and to convince the mankind to accept His plan. Peace be on you, O Ameer ul Moomineen; I testify that you made utmost efforts, as it should be, in the cause of Allah, acted upon His Book, followed the way of life of His Prophet, (blessings of Allah be on him and on his children )to the last moment of your life, until Allah invited you to come unto Him, and used His ...
According to Islamic traditions, the holy face of the Prophet (PBUH) of Islam shines on the roof of the Status of Intercession, which is the very Praiseworthy Station. He appears in the status and showers the light of his intercession on the Ummah.In this respect, the holy Prophet (PBUH) has said: “When I stand on the Praiseworthy Station and intercede for some people of my Ummah, the Almighty God accepts my ...
Thus, Imam Hussein (A.S) started making preparations for the journey. During midnight he went to the graves of his Mother Hazrat Fatimah (A.S) and his Brother Imam Hassan (A.S) to bid them farewell. In the morning when he returned to his home, his brother Muhammad ibne Hanafiyah came to him and said, "O dear brother! You are the most dear and beloved to me than anyone else. And I will not refuse to advise anyone except you, being most worthy of ...
Sayedah Fatimah Masumah (sa) also known as Karimah-e-Ahl-e-Bayt (as) was the daughter of the seventh Imam from Prophet Muhammad (saww)'s progeny, Musa bin Jafar Al-Kazim (as), and sister of eighth Imam Ali bin Musa Ar-Reza (as). She was born on the 1st of Zilqa'da, 173 AH.
Prior to her birth, Imam Ja'far Sadiq (as) spoke of her status:
"Mecca is Allah's sanctuary, Medina is Prophet Muhammad's (S.A.W.), Kufa is Imam Ali's (as), and Qom will be ...
Hujjat al-Islam Syed Zaki BaqueriDaughter of the Holy Prophet's(SAW) daughter. Sister of the King of Martyrs. She is a true role model for any woman today of any religion. She showed the world the definition of womanhood. Her bravery and courage stands alone in a field of millions. She was tied up and taken as a prisoner. She had her scarf ripped off her head, she had her house burned to the ground. She was Janab-e-Zainab.With a father like Ali, ...
Imam Hassan Mujtaba, upon who is peace, was the second Imam. He and his brother Imam Hussein were the two sons of Amir al-Mu'minin 'Ali and Hadrat Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. Many times the Prophet had said, "Hasan and Hussein are my children." Because of these same words 'Ali would say to his other children, "You are my children and Hassan and Hussein are the children of the Prophet." Imam Hassan was born in the year 3 AH, in Medina ...
Sir! There is a narration reported by Abu Hashim Dawood bin Qasim al Ja'fri which gives the testimony of Khidhr (a.s) regarding the 12 Imams, and shows their names. It is present in 1- Al Kafi, Sheikh Kulaini, 1/525 2- al-Imama wa al-Tabarsi fi al-Hira, p106 3- Kitab al-Ghaybah, Sheikh Numani, page 58 4- Kamal ad-Din, Sheikh Saduq, page 313 All of these show the end of narrators like this عن أحمدبن محمد البرقی، عن أبی ...
Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, has ordered His creatures to know Him and to worship Him after they have known Him:"And I have not created the Jinn and the men except that they should serve Me."(281)
His creatures indicate His existence. The pretty creation and the untied regulation indicate His Oneness. He has created a guide from their own selves to show them the way to all things. This guide is reason. However, reason by itself is unable to know ...
The answering of appeals and requests is not confined to the blessed shrine of the Eighth Holy Imam. The same is true of all the blessed shrines. In our own lifetime we have heard so many miracles by each of these holy figures that they cannot be enumerated. Even this nondescript, during the days that he lived in Tehran, where he had very frequent honor of ziyarah of Hadrat Abd al-Azim, does not remember having prayed for anything in that ...
In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful "Is it (then that) the judgement of (the time of pagan) ignorance they desire? And who (else) can be better than Allah to judge for a people of assured faith." Holy Qur'an (5:50) "Judgement is of two kinds -the judgement of Allah- the Great and Almighty - and the judgement of the people of the ignorance (jahiliyah). So, whoever misses Allah's judgement, surely will judge according to the ...
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Astan Quds Razavi’s Department of Non-Iranian Pilgrims’ Affairs will hold the 3rd International Night of Poetry themed with the Islamic Revolution and Islamic Awakening on February 4th. The Islamic Research Foundation will play host to the event. “Also, there will be a competition for poets.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of ...
Abu Bakr, son of Imam al-Hassan son of the Commander of the Faithful (A.S), came out. His first name was Abdullah al-Akbar [Abdullah senior] and his mother was Ramla. He fought till he was killed.After the latter, his full-blooded brother, Qasim, came out. He was a lad who had not yet come of age. When Hussain (A.S), looked at him, he hugged him and wept. Then he permitted him to fight, so he came out with a face looking like a full moon bearing ...
He said: Abul Qasim Ja'far b. Muhammad - may Allah bless him with mercy, reported to me from his father, from Sa'd b. Abdillah, from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa, from Muhammad b. Sinan, from Abdul Karim b. Amru and Ibrahim b. Rahah al-Basri, who both reported from Mayassar, who reported that: Abu Abdillah Ja'far b. Muhammad, peace be upon him told him: "What do you say about a person who does not disobey in what Allah has enjoined and forbidden, ...
Devotedness
Fatimah (A.S) devoted herself to Allah and resorted to Him totally in all of her affairs. This was clear in her dua'a.
Her dua'a on turning to Allah
Fatimah (A.S) often supplicated Allah with this dua'a,
"O Allah, by Your knowing of the unseen and Your power over the creation, make me live if You know that life is better to me, and make me die if You know that death is better to me.
O Allah, I ask You for loyalty, and for the ...
The Holy Prophet [s] said: "The one who takes prayer light is not of me. No, by Allah such a person will not reach the Haud, Pond of abundant." Man La Yahduruhul Faqih, vol. 1, p. 206Imam Sadiq [a] said: "If there be a stream at the house of one of you in which the one washes himself five times a day, will there remain anything from the dirt over his body? Verily, the likeness of prayers is the same as the stream. The person who establishes ...
Shahrbano was the daughter of the (Iranian) kings and was mother of Ima`m Zayn al-'Abidin, peace be on him. This great mistress occupied an important position in the world of the Muslim woman. Indeed, she was among the great mistresses of her time. She was among the prominent Muslim women and was distinguished by noble qualities. Among them are: A. She had a very clear lineage. She was the daughter of Choesroe, the just king and pride of the ...
The true date of Fâtemeh"s martyr is a subject for discussion among Muslims. Some say that it was forty days after the death of our Prophet, some say it was sixty days after, some believe it was seventy five days after, and some say it was ninety days, and some do believe that it was ninety five days after the death of her beloved father. There are some who also believe that Fâtemeh died six months, or even eight months after her ...
If we wanted to understand the forms and the reasons of the dispute in the light of the circumstances surrounding it, we had to explain those circumstances even in short to give a clear image about that reverse age as much as concerning our aim.I do not mean by the reversal when I describe the reign of the first caliph except its real meaning applying to the changeability of the ruling authority that had to acquire the public form,to take it ...
Imam or leader is the title given to a person who takes the lead in a community, in a particular social movement or political ideology, or in a scientific and/or a religious form of thought. Naturally, because of his relation with the people he leads, he must conform his actions to their capabilities in both important and secondary matters.As is clear from the preceding chapters, the sacred religion of Islam takes into consideration and gives ...
