Question: If a person falls ill, should he seek treatment a) with a doctor, or b) by eating dust from near Imam al-Husayn’s grave, or c) through supplication?
Brief AnswerEach of the aforementioned actions could potentially cure his illness independently or by combining with the other two. However, the best course is to accompany all our actions—among which are medical and supernatural treatments—with supplication (which entails ...
Women and education
Question: Can women attain the position of mujtahid?[1][1] Would you please elaborate.
Reply: It is possible for a woman to become a mujtahid, however she cannot become a marja’ -i taqlid[2][2] for others.
Istifta’at Vol. 1, p. 21.
The men and women of Qum are exemplary in their learning and their willingness to act, as are the men and women of Iran on the whole. (107)
17 May 1979 (27 ...
However, you should pay attention to the following points:
In the science of hadith, the narrator (the one who quotes) and the one who is quoted as saying are also referred to as student and teacher; therefore, It is likely that what is considered as four thousand students for Imam Sadeq (AS) is taken from this expression. So, four thousand students for him is specifically based on the above mentioned expression, but there is no reason to prove ...
Question: If a Muslim person opens a hotel in a non-Islamic country, and is forced to sell some kinds of wine and Haram foods because the majority of the people in that country are Christians who drink wine with their food, and do not go to a hotel where wine is not served with food, and considering that the person intends to pay back all the income from Haram cases to the religious authority, is the person allowed to do this?
The Grand ...
Why is the Ja‘farī school of thought [madhhab] stipulated in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the official madhhab of the country?
Reply: No doubt, the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran shows respect to all Muslim schools of thought, but the Muslim schools of jurisprudence [madhāhib or ...
Question: Why pig meat is Haram? Whilst like cow and sheep, (pig) has 2 piece hoofs and also with advances in medical science (including vaccines and special animal husbandry) it does not have diseases of the previous centuries?
Therefore, based on this definite principle which has been mentioned, the meat of any animal which has the characters of that animal and by the way of glands and their secretion (hormones), it affects the morality of ...
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 ...
What does “Shī‘ah” mean?
Reply: In Arabic “Shī‘ah” literally means “follower”. The Glorious Qur’an states: ﴾ لإِبْرَاهِيمَ شِيعَتِهِ مِن وَإِنَّ ﴿ “Indeed Abraham was among his followers [Shī‘ah].”[1]
But the Muslims use the word “Shī‘ah” to mean ...
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Question: What are the Mustahab acts to be done after a funeral ceremony.
Answer: It is Mustahab that when the persons who attended the funeral have departed, the guardian of the dead person or the person whom the guardian grants permission should recite the prescribed supplications for the dead person.It is Mustahab that after the burial, the bereaved family is consoled, praying for their well being. However, if the condolence ...
Reply: Some think that prostration on the earth or turbah taken from the burial site of martyrs is tantamount to worshipping it and consider it a form of polytheism [shirk].
In reply to this question, it must be noted that there is a great difference between the phrase, “as-sujūd lillāh” [prostration for Allah], and “as-sujūd ‘ala’l-arḍ” [prostration on earth]. The problem of the mentioned people is that they fail to ...
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Question: Whenever I am thinking about a beautiful woman, there comes out a liquid that is very similar to semen? Is it semen? How can I understand that it is semen or a clean discharge?
Answer: The said liquid is clean. However, when one cannot ascertain whether the fluid emitted from one's body is semen, urine or something else, it will be treated as semen if it is thrown out with lust and if the body is slackened. If all or some of ...
Reply: From the viewpoint of reason and logic of revelation, just as all human beings, nay, all phenomena of the world, are in need of God in their creation, they are also in need of Him for their subsistence.
In this regard, the Holy Qur’an states:
﴾ الْحَمِيدُ الغَنِىُّ هُوَ وَاللهُ ...
1- The meaning of the child’s culture: Culture refers to a combination of beliefs, morals, traditions, laws, knowledge and behavioral patterns that one acquires within society. Children have their special and distinguished vocabularies, as well as special values and methods that they use in playing, expressing themselves and satisfying their needs. They also have special reactions, stances, trends, emotions and lifestyle. We call all this the ...
Why do the Shī‘ah regard the sons of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (‘a) (Ḥasan and Ḥusayn (‘a)) as the sons of the Messenger of Allah (ṣ)?
Reply: A study of the exegesis [tafsīr], history and hadīth books will show that this idea is not accepted only by the Shī‘ah but by almost all Muslim researchers ...
Reply: Taqiyyah means concealing one’s conviction and faith from the enemies to avoid worldly, spiritual or religious harms, and it is one of the religious obligations of every Muslim on which the Holy Qur’an emphasizes.
Taqiyyah from the Qur’anic viewpoint
The Glorious Qur’an has referred to this ...
Office of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (may Allah grant him long life):Insofar as a woman is married to her husband – as in the given example – it is not permissible to marry her. In fact, if a woman has some differences with her husband who is not willing to divorce his wife and it is unbearable or extremely difficult for the woman to continue living with him in such a case she can turn to one of the representatives of a qualified ...
Are al-Bayan, al-Iftikhariya and Al-Tatanjiya sermons which are found in Mashariq al-Anwar by Shaykh Rajab Borsi, authentic?Concise answerAl-Iftikhariya SermonIn his Mashariq al-Anwar,[1] Hafez Rajab Borsi has narrated from Asbagh bin Nabatah a relatively long sermon named Al-Iftikhar Sermon which the narrator has attributed to Imam Ali (A.S). In that sermon, Imam Ali (A.S) introduces himself with these words: "I am the brother of the Messenger ...
How do the scholars and the mujtahidūn discern the authentic ḥadīths from the forged or altered ones?Concise answer
Unfortunately, the phenomenon of forging and altering (dass) the text of the ḥadīths by the hypocrites and enemies started from the early periods of Islamic history. They always intended to attack Islam in this dangerous way. However, the Prophet (PBUH) and the Imams (AS) -- and following them, our great scholars - were ...
Is the belief that great divine people [awliyā’] have supernatural power tantamount to polytheism [shirk]?
Reply: It is clear that when a person wants someone to do something for him or her, the former thinks that the latter is capable of doing it and this capability takes two forms:
1. This capability may be of ...
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