NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF A FAMILY
Interest in the numerical increase of the children and the expansion of the family has been another cause of polygamy. The position of a man and a woman with regard to the number of children each of them can have is different. The number of children a woman can bear is very limited, whether she has one husband or several husbands. But the number of children which a man can beget depends on the number of women he ...
Six years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, no foreign trips were made by officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The crucial moments created by the Imposed War, and furthermore, the domestic crisis that used to happen one after the other made all forces within the government and the nation to spend their efforts entirely on a struggle against the anti-revolutionary rebels. Such a situation left no time for international trips. At ...
Youth: The Pedagogical Responsibility
Characteristics of the Islamic Educator
From the Islamic perspective, what are the characteristics of the tutor or teacher? What are his responsibilities?
The first vital characteristic is that the teacher should be, from the aspect of professional competence, wellgrounded in the field of knowledge which he wishes to impart to others. If he is unqualified, then teaching will be an exercise in ...
What is happiness?We take different paths on our journey to happiness. Some of us define happiness through material possessions, such as a particular house, car or general lifestyle. This is what most people are working towards when they say or think ‘I want to be happy’. Others define happiness through personal relationships, such as having a loving spouse, or loving family members around them. Yet others define happiness through ...
The Prophet (Pbuh) said: Whoever marries and visits his relatives for the sake of God, God shall attend to him by placing a crown like that of the angels on his head. [Vasa'il, v.20, p.51, Al-i-Bayt Press]
The Sincerity of One's Intentions
These wise and important words have been reported on the authority of the Prophet (Pbuh): Whoever marries to please Allah and establish a family, God will adorn his head with the crown of angels. Marriage ...
The Angels and free-will
Question: We know that some angels do nothing but worship Allah (awj). Is this worship of theirs performed of their own freewill? If not, does Allah (awj) have need of such worship?
Brief Answer
No benefit from any creature’s worship—whether it has freewill or not—reaches Allah (awj). Rather worship that is offered out of freewill is the cause for the spiritual advancement of the ...
By: Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (S) say, 'My nation will be divided into three categories in the transient world. The first group are those who do not like to gather (and save) wealth and (also) do not bother in hoarding it. These people are content with the transient world in that amount which will remove the hunger and clothe the nakedness (the bare necessities of ...
Jihad Al-Nikah (Arabic: جهاد النكاح, often translated as Sex jihad or Sexual jihad) is a controversial concept that refers to Sunni women allegedly offering themselves in sexual comfort roles to fighters for the establishment of Islamic rule.[1]
Allegations of this practise is related to the Tunisian government's war effort against Al Qaida linked Islamic terrorism in the mountainous Jebel ech Chambi region bordering Algeria. The ...
The Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (city of California) issued a statement this week denouncing a statement from the highest ranking religious authority in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Abdul Aziz al-Shaykh, who said Iranians are not Muslims because they are “descendants of Majus” – a term that refers to Zoroastrians, a monotheistic religion predating Christianity and Islam that was the dominant religion in Persia before Arab ...
A year ago, Indira Kaljo, a female Muslim basketball player, chose to wear the hijab, the Islamic headdress for women.
She took the decision following an "awakening" during a charity trip to earthquake-hit Haiti.
But the Bosnian-American player quickly realized she would not be able to play professionally in Europe as basketball's governing body had forbidden the use of any type of headgear, including hijabs, turbans or yarmulkes, during ...
Ramadan is a special time for us, and we want to make it a special time for the community,” Elsayed Elmarzouky, president of the Islamic Center and a longtime spokesman for the Islamic community, told Reading Eagle on Saturday, May 20. “It’s very hard not to touch any food or drink, but practicing this tradition honors God,” Elmarzouky explained. “It’s a test of faith. We are not forced to do so, but we ...
Existence of spirits within animals and its differnce from that of the Human Being
Question: Do animals possess souls and if so how does the animal soul differ from the human soul?
Brief Answer
Before embarking on the answer to this question, it must be noted that the answer provided below is based on the school of Transcendent Theosophy, i.e., Sadrian philosophy. In this light, the answer will be expounded under two ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 30 people are feared dead and over 100 injured after two subsequent explosions hit a densely populated area of Kurram Agency's Parachinar city Friday evening, Sabir Hussain, the medical superintendent (MS) of the District General Hospital, Parachinar, said.
The MS has appealed for help, saying the hospital is not equipped to handle the large number of casualties.This is the second major bombing incident ...
Resurecction
Question:Please discuss the issue of resurrection in detail both from a rational and a natural or instinctive perspective. Please refer to important books regarding this topic.
Brief Answer
The answer to this question will be clarified by examining three philosophical perspectives—that of Masha’ (Peripatetic Philosophy), Ishraq (Illuminationist Philosophy), and Hikmat al-Muta’aliyah (Transcendental ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A total of 47,210 racist crimes were reported across the European Union in 2013, with an anti-racism organisation warning that this is only the “tip of the iceberg”, as many crimes go unreported.Muslim women, people of African descent/black Europeans and Roma are reported to be most at risk of racially motivated crimes.The report, the first of its kind which examines racist crimes based on civil society ...
The Suffi are considered by some as the inner or mystical dimension of Islam They are not considered a sect of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a Sūfī , though some senior members of the tradition reserve this term for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition. Another common denomination is the word dervish. The word, 'Sufi' has been ascribed various ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Muslim family in the US state of Virginia said burglars tore up their Quran and scrawled anti-Muslim graffiti on a wall in their apartment.
The family said that they returned to their Fairfax County apartment on Monday after a weekend away to find their apartment broken into.
The couple, Mahrukh and her husband Shoaib, asked that they be identified only by their first names.
In addition to the Quran, ...
The Razavi International Calendar of 2018 proposed and ordered by the Astan Quds Razavi Center for International Affairs was produced and published by the Islamic Reseach Foundation of Astan Quds ...
Habits
Similar to stereotypic movements, a habit is a learned behaviour that a person repeats so often that he or she begins to do it without even thinking about it. Certain habits can be helpful but some may seem to serve no particular purpose.
• Helpful habits - brushing teeth before going to bed or buckling your seatbelt when getting into a car.
• Habits with no purpose - hair twirling, thumb sucking, nail biting... etc.
Some habits ...
