The Philosophical argument on the entity of God is that all things in this world are created for some cause and reason. Cause and effect are prerequisite or very important for the creation for example the son and daughter would not have been born without the father. Now here the father will be called illat (cause) and son will be called Mahlool (effect). Our cause is our father and we are the effect of the cause, our father. In this way, our ...
The Philosophy of Aristotle
I. The Life of Aristotle
Aristotle (picture) was born at Stagira, a Greek colony of Thrace, in the year 384 B.C. His father, a Macedonian named Nicomachus, was a physician in the court of Amyntas II, King of Macedonia.
After the death of his parents, Aristotle's education was directed by Proxenus of Atarneus. In his eighteenth year, Aristotle went to Athens and entered the Academy of Plato, remaining there about ...
Islam has instituted the system of family on sound bases agreeing with the life necessities and the individuals’ exigencies and behavior. It has regarded the family talents that are afforded by God, as spontaneous. God says:And one of his signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion.This phenomenon on which mankind have been natured is one of God’s grand ...
A former British boxing champion has been cleared of a plot to go to Syria to fight alongside the terrorist group of ISIS. “Anthony Small, 33, was accused of plotting with two others to slip out of the UK on false passports to join and support ISIL in Syria”. It said that the former British and Commonwealth light middleweight champion had begun to sell items including boxing gloves and boots in the run up to leaving the UK, jurors ...
The training and upbringing of a child is not an easy and simple task that the parents can perform with little or no effort. This task requires, in fact, delicate handling and temperament. There are myriads of fine points to be considered to achieve success in the efforts. The mentor has to relate himself with the spirit of the child. He cannot perform the task without knowing the spiritual, psychological, educational and practical niceties of ...
Detained Bahraini opposition figures called on Wednesday (December 9, 2015) for the release of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr who was sentenced to death by a Saudi court because of his opposition to the Saudi regime.
Detained Secretary-General of the Freedoms and Democracy Movement (Haq) Hassan Mushaima', Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman, Sheikh Mohammad Habib Al-Miqdad, Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Miqdad, Sheikh Abdulhadi Al-Mokhawdar, Abdulhadi ...
Imam Ja'far As-Sadiq (as) has said: O Abu Baseer! There is a canal in the Heaven on either bank of which are stationed maids. The mu'min who passes that way would select the maids who would willingly accompany him. Allah will create and station more maids in their place.The Hur al-'Ayn are created with luminous soil. Their limbs would appear shining from within a thousand garments. The heart of the mu'min would be the mirror for the Hur al-'Ayn. ...
Taharah (طهارة), by its linguistic definition, refers to the process of cleansing and the removal of anything that may pollute that object (e.g. dirt, spots, odor, germs) with things that are unwanted or harmful to that person. As for the religious or spiritual connotation of Taharah, it means the purification and cleansing of the bodies, objects, soul, and heart from the things which Allah (SWT) ordered that they be purified from and with ...
The man who narrated the largest number of hadith—5,374 (446 of which are in Sahih al-Bukhari), although he says that he only spent three years with the Prophet [1]—was Abu Hurayra al-Dusi. He embraced Islam on the seventh year after the migration to Madina. Abu Hurayra himself says that only ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar narrated more traditions than he did, and that ‘Abdullah used to write them down whereas he did not.[2]In ...
Glimpses into the Family Life of Hazrat Fatima (SA)
Relationship with Children The Fundamental Role of a Mother in the Well-Being and Prosperity of a Generation:
There is no doubt that to a very large extent, the future of a child depends greatly on the mental and psychological influence that he is exposed to, through people closest to him in his childhood. And naturally since a mother is the closest to a child during his ...
Fulfilling an old dream, Muslims in Uganda have opened the country's first-ever Islamic television channel in the country, hoping it will launch a revival of their faith in the country after years of absence of Muslim voice in the media. “Our listeners demanded for a Television station they would relate with and that is how the idea was conceived,” Al-Hajji Karim Kalisa, the managing director of Salam TV said. Despite having ...
The Light of Heavens and the Earth
Question: What is the meaning of Allah (awj) being the light of the heavens and of the earth? Is He light in the physical sense? If not, what is intended?
Brief Answer
Without doubt, the “light” mentioned in the verse of Light (Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth...) is not a physical and sensible light. For, sensible light pertains to the accidental characteristics ...
arriage is one of the fundamental sociological institutions. Mankind, since its very beginning, has kept to it without any disruption. Even the so-called 'uncivilized' tribes and primitive societies treat marriage as a sacred bond. Such an institution must be based on the foundation of the nature itself.
Philosophy of Muslim Marriage: Islam has based its matrimonial laws on the correlation between masculinity and femininity. Obviously this ...
The French parliament is debating plans to ban women from wearing the full Islamic veil, known as the burka, in public. The country appears to be obsessed with Islamic dress. In 2004, the wearing of headscarves was outlawed in French schools and now Muslim women are back in the spotlight. As a young Scottish Muslim, I am tired of Western governments’ attempts to impose their values upon these women. Being brought up in Scotland has ...
1. Introduction
A sensible and well-balanced family system is the very foundation of a happy life. Indeed, it is the root of an advancing civilization. Religion comes to take human beings closer to Allah. Therefore, it must create an atmosphere conducive to that ideal; otherwise, it cannot achieve its goal. No religion can be regarded as complete unless it has a well-defined code of family life which expressly shows the exact role and ...
God doth wish to lighten your (difficulties). [Holy Quran: Nisaa 4:28]
Celibacy is a wound to morals and social purity. A celibate is the worst of people in site of the Almighty God in such a manner that it is frequently underlined in many Quranic verses and instructions of tradition. On the other hand, in Islam, the marriage is encouraged and apperciated and many blessings are put in it by the mercy of Allah. Considering the Islamic ...
Dr. Wahid Akhtar & Jalal Ali AhmadOccidentosis (Gharbzadegi) is Jalal Ali Ahmad's tryst with the infinite world of ideas, for which the scene is set in twentieth-century Iran and the background is provided by the vast panorama of the East faced with the onslaughts of the Western civilization. The first draft of the book in Persian was presented at two of the many sessions of the Congress on the Aim of Iranian Education, on 29 November 1961 ...
By: Ayatullah Shaheed Sayyid Abdul Husain DastghaibOn several occasions the dead do come to life in this world also. Just look at the vegetable world. You observe in the spring season that the trees become alive after their death due to drying up. They once again get a fresh rooh or life. The earth which had died also becomes alive. Fa Yh Yee…Mautihaa (Surah Room: 30, V: 24)On a number of occasions a dead man has also become alive again. ...
Imran was the son of Mathan, who was from the progeny of Sulaiman son of Dawood (a.s). The children of Mathan and especially Imran were among the leading religious scholars of Bani Israel. They were residing in Baitul Maqdas. Imran’s wife was Hannah. Both grew old but remained issueless. They wished so earnestly to have children who would keep their memory alive after them and who would continue their holy progeny further.One day Hannah ...
The thugs, under the order of one of the Wahhabi cleric in Jos, Sheikh Aliyu bn Aliyu, popularly known as Ali Dan Ali, attacked the peaceful mourners using cutlasses, knives and iron rods, and injured about 30 at varying degrees including females.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - On Friday the 23th of October, 2015 thugs attacked Shia Muslims brothers and Sisters on their way trekking to Ashura gathering in Jos city of Nigeria. On that fateful ...
