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Wednesday 4th of October 2023
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Are there any guidelines from the Ahlulbayt (as) suggesting any specific foods and diet for a child’s development apart from the mother’s milk?

Are there any guidelines from the Ahlulbayt (as) suggesting any specific foods and diet for a child’s development apart from the mother’s milk?
We have at our disposal in the English language many ahadith (traditions) on the best practices and foods including duas, for the conception of a child and the duration it spends in its mother's womb. But are there any ahadith that you can shed light on in regards to the best practices for the first 2-4 years of a child's development? Have the Ahlulbayt (as) suggested any specific foods and diet apart from the mother's milk? Have they provided ...

Another Look at History Regarding Women’s Life and Status

Another Look at History Regarding Women’s Life and Status
Another Look at History Regarding Women’s Life and Status The men of the Age of Ignorance were terribly brutal to women. They lived in ignorance of God's logic, illumination and revelation and condemned women to be a means for man's life of capricious desires. They viewed women as being the main factor for supplying all of their lustful pleasures. These men thought reading and writing to be dangerous for women and would not let them leave the ...

Those grateful for blessings

Those grateful for blessings
7. Those grateful for blessings The people, who know Allah , the world, man and the Day of Resurrection after pondering on the creation and by seeing the facts in the world of reality, hearing the truth from the tongues of creatures and existing things, trying to purify the inner self and the soul, acquiring divine morals, following the way of worship and servitude (to Allah), doing good and being kind to people, are really grateful for the ...

The effects of Reading the Holy Quran

The effects of Reading the Holy Quran

Professor Ansarian:

If we pay a close attention to the effects of the Holy Quran and choose it as a friend, recite its verses and ponder over their meanings, then after a while our lives will be filled with light, freshness and beauty.

A brief commentary of Surah Al-Asr

 A brief commentary of Surah Al-Asr
It is a very strange verse. I saw the book that was published in Qom, it is one thousands and five hundred pages which is the exegesis of the three verses that the first one is “oath” “By the declining day” According to some commentators, sin at the time of the revelation of the Holy Quran, when the people of Mecca ate lunch they used to commit sin the whole afternoon and evening. Because Mecca is in the area near the ...

Professor Ansarian: The completion and perfection of Islam is linked to Mahdism

Professor Ansarian: The completion and perfection of Islam is linked to Mahdism

The completion and perfection of Islam is linked to Mahdism; as it is mentioned in a prophetic hadith that the failure to recognize the Imam and the divine authority at any time is the cause of the retreat and return of human to the era before the advent of Islam and the ancient ignorance.

“He who dies and does not know the Imam of his time dies the death of ignorance”.

 

Professor Hussein Ansarian: Frightening people according to narration

Professor Hussein Ansarian: Frightening people according to narration

According to narration, whoever frightens people with his word, with his attire, with his look, with his complexion, with his pen and signature; in a way that wherever his name is mentioned, people start trembling, he enters the day of resurrection while on his forehead is written:" he is deprived and disappointed from the mercy of Allah Almighty"

Professor Ansarian: Modesty

Professor Ansarian: Modesty

It has been repeatedly proved that the modest person is lovely and dear for others; for this reason, the Holy Prophet (pbuh) describes modesty as one of the traits of the wise people.

the sky wept for forty days over the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (as)

the sky wept for forty days over the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (as)
إنَّ السَّماءَ بَکَتْ عَلی الْحُسَینِ عَلَیهِ السَّلام اَرْبَعِینَ صَباحاً بِالدَّمِ وَ إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ بَکَتْ أرْبَعینَ صَباحاً بِالسَّواءِ Imam Sadiq (as): the sky wept for forty days over the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (as) and the earth cried and mourned for forty days for him and turned ...

Professor Hussein Ansarian: The Qur'an is the manifestation of divine knowledge

Professor Hussein Ansarian: The Qur'an is the manifestation of divine knowledge

 The Qur'an is the manifestation of divine knowledge to the blessed heart of the Messenger of God, and it is only his heart and chest that has endured this very heavy knowledge in terms of quality

Impatience in worship is the effects of ill-gotten gains

Impatience in worship is the effects of ill-gotten gains
The ill-gotten gains are really obstacles. When people are used to gaining ill-gotten things they become unwilling to worship. There are so many jobless people in the streets. And at the time of prayers when the call «Come to the prayer», (حىّ على الصلاة), «Hurry to the best work», (حىّ على خيرالعمل) are heard from the mosques few people are willing to attend the congregational prayers, and when ...

Man’s and Woman’s Independence in Islam

Man’s and Woman’s Independence in Islam
Man’s and Woman’s Independence in Islam Don't be anyone's slave since God created you to be free." [Bihar al-Anwar, v.77, p.214] Human Freedom and Independence Mankind's creation is based upon his freedom in life, independence in carrying out daily affairs and in control over choices. No one has the right to make another his slave imprisoning that individual to serve his own needs. To deprive others of freedom and free will is a mortal ...

The reward looking at Allah’s house(Mecca)

The reward looking at Allah’s house(Mecca)

I shall tell you the reward of Hajj (an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca). As soon as you enter the  Sacred Mosque, Do nothing, just sit down, neither pray nor do Tawaf, look at The House of Kaba. With every look, hundreds of thousands of good deeds are written in his action letter and one hundred thousand sins will be erased. And only Allah Almighty knows the rewards of Mashar, Safa, Marwa and throwing pebbles.

A beautiful and influential anecdote from Professor Ansariyan

A beautiful and influential anecdote from Professor Ansariyan
Prophet Moses went to the entrance of the city the next morning and saw a man with his son are the first ones who left the city. The prophet Moses was asked to go to the entrance of the city late in the evening and the last person who enters the town is my best servant. The Prophet Moses heard: O Moses! This servant of mine was the worst one when he left the town in the morning, but when his son saw the huge and massive mountains around the city ...

A part of Dua’a-ul-A’sharaat - Translation of Professor Hossein Ansarian

 A part of Dua’a-ul-A’sharaat - Translation of Professor Hossein Ansarian

O Allah, to you be praise the first of which ascends while its end is infinite. O Allah, to you be praise due to which the heavens humbles itself to you, and the earth as well as all those on it glorify you. O Allah, to you be praise—eternal, endless, having neither cessation nor exhaustion,

Let’s not be like those who have removed Allah from their lives.

Let’s not be like those who have removed Allah from their lives.
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One's Independence in Marriage

One's Independence in Marriage
One's Independence in Marriage Mothers and fathers must pay attention to the fact that the right to choose a spouse - with important conditions that dear Islam has stated - belongs to the offspring themselves. Parents do not have the right to force their son to marry a girl whom he does not approve of. Also parents do not have the right to force their daughters to marry the ones she does not want to. The offspring have the God-given right of ...

Professor Hussein Ansarian: trusting in God's plan

Professor Hussein Ansarian: trusting in God's plan

One of the commands of God to the Holy prophet is Tawakkul ( reliance on God or "trusting in God's plan");

فَإِذَا عَزَمْتَ فَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ ۚ

When you decide to do something, choose me as your lawyer so that my will  accompanies your work and produces outcome.

The simplicity of Islam

The simplicity of Islam
Islam is an easy religion and practicing all its decrees and ordinances are possible for human being to perform. It is for this reason that on the Day of Resurrection, the excuse of no human being which is based on this notion that the religion was hard is accepted by Allah Almighty. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other infallibles (AS) have repeatedly said in their quotes about the ease and simplicity of the religion of Islam and also emphasized ...

Professor Hussein Ansarian: the greatest sin that has ever happened in the history of human beings

Professor Hussein Ansarian: the greatest sin that has ever happened in the history of human beings

In the history of mankind there has never been such sin more severe than the removal of the commander of the faithful, Imam tAli (as) from the caliphate.